Your front-page article in Monday's edition on the McLains' proposed biodiesel refinery on Snow Creek Road was a great promotional piece, if you like heavy industry in your front yard. According to my calculations, approximately 50 column inches were devoted to supporting this heavy- manufacturing process in our quiet residential and agricultural neighborhood. Only about nine column inches referred to the damage, disruption and danger this would create for members of our community and visitors to our area.
Phil McLain was quoted as saying that "the hearing was delayed" when, in fact, that can only be decided by the county board of commissioners. That decision was not made until Tuesday at the 7 p.m. commissioners meeting, not prior to the print deadline for your Monday edition.
Although we had a sizable crowd of opponents in attendance, several others failed to attend the meeting due to the misinformation printed in the R&L. The news and editorial staffs of your paper owe it to the citizens of Iredell County and Statesville to check their information rather than to gratuitously print someone’s inaccurate remarks as fact.
The issue now is scheduled to be heard at the Aug. 7 commissioners meeting. I encourage all who are opposed to this "loose gun" approach to rezoning to please attend this hearing.
The proposed M-2 heavy manufacturing zoning is referred to in the Iredell County Land Use Plan as "designed to accommodate all but the most obnoxious industries."
Wouldn't you agree that this type of facility can rightly only be located in an industrial zone?
I trust that cooler heads will prevail when our county commissioners make the decision at their next meeting.
Randy Bridges
Statesville
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