Cement Plant In Neighborhood?

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Some people say the plant would bring much needed jobs and development to the area. But its location, right next to an elementary school and home, has others saying that cement and the neighborhood simply don't mix.

"All the noise from the dump trucks and the dust and the dirt, and everything that's going to be coming from that."

Others say they want economic development.

"I think its progress," Pat Jones said. "I think if someone wants to start a business, have jobs for people that it's something good."

The controversy stems from a vacant lot at the intersection of 51st Street and 65th West Avenue. The ten acres is zoned for agricultural use.

Tulsa Dynaspan wants to change the zoning to industrial, and put in the cement plant. That request was denied by the county planning commission this summer, but the company is appealing the decision.

"We're a neighborhood. We're not industrial," Mulchare said. "There's plenty of industrial land in this area that they could purchase and move into that's already zoned that way."

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County Commission Chair Keith announced at the 9:30 Board of County Commissioners meeting today (where they were scheduled to act on it) that the applicant had withdrawn the appeal.