The Dallas Park Board is vowing to fight against the approval of concrete batch plant permits near city parks, citing potential harm to the properties. Two existing plants near Luna Vista Golf Course and MoneyGram Soccer Park are already facing legal challenges from the city.
Matthew Tuerk plays golf at Luna Vista Golf Park in Dallas , just across the road from the Texas Materials asphalt plant on Dec. 23, 2024.The Dallas Park Board is taking a stand against concrete batch plants looking over the city’s parks.
In northwest Dallas, perturbed by the adjacency of batch plants next to Luna Vista Golf Course and MoneyGram soccer park, two city-owned facilities, the 15-member board vowed to oppose the approval of any specific use permits they say could have harmful impacts on the park properties.Though it is not uncommon to see construction companies in this part of town, one industrial site on 10850 Luna Rd is already involved in a legal fight with the city.In court documents, city officials said the two concrete batch plants in the same location are operating without proper permits and pose “significant dangers to those individuals who live and own land” around the plants.But the operators deny the city’s claims, according to lawyers representing the batch plants. They say the city has instead misapplied a 2022 law that sought to regulate batch plants within city limits. Meanwhile, in August, the City Plan Commission approved a specific-use permit for another concrete and asphalt crushing facility on a 21-acre site east of the golf course. It has yet to come in front of the City Council, and is expected to experience more opposition.District 6 Park Board member Tim Dickey said in a Dec. 12 meeting the park department does not get regularly notified about the adjacency of industrial sites to residential areas, and the times it does, the city’s default position never included objecting to the permits. That hasn’t been helpful for city plan commissioners and other city officials, who Dickey said had no clue about any negative impacts of the industrial sites on park properties. So every time a case for a specific use permit goes before the City Plan Commission, Dickey said the park department needed to make its stance clea
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