What do other zoning boards know that Iredell’s doesn’t?
First of all, let me state that I am not against the manufacturing of biodiesel. The situation on Snow Creek Road is strictly a zoning issue.
I have gone online (as anyone can) and looked at a biodiesel magazine Web site. It lists three manufacturing facilities in North Carolina. They are: Evans Environment Energies, 2301 Industrial Park Drive, Wilson; Foothills Bio-Energies, 815-D Virginia St. SW (which I know for a fact is an industrial area), Lenoir; and Piedmont Biofuels, Industrial Drive, Pittsboro.
Another facility in South Carolina is located in the old Naval Base in Charleston.
Do you see a pattern here?
I have been to the facility in Lenoir. The nearest house is located uphill and a half mile from the driveway of the facility. And this house is in the process of being torn down. The entire facility is enclosed by a chain link fence with strands of barbed wire around the top of the fence. You need to announce your arrival and go to a call box to enter. The view from the driveway looking across the street is undeveloped industrial land. The view from the right side of the driveway is undeveloped industrial land.
Again, do you see a pattern?
I have been to the Naval Base in Charleston. It is located in, you guessed it, an industrial area. The area is enclosed with a chain link fence. There are no residences located 500 feet from the base.
Pattern, anyone?
Greg Waugh
Statesville
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Dear Mr Waugh,
Here's an exception to the pattern you see:
Piedmont Biofuels has built a diversified business park including an organic produce distributor, a certified accountancy, a non-profit office, a small cosmetics company, a shared-use kitchen, a playground, soccer fields, monthly muscial concerts, edible landscaping, organic gardens, and much much more.
Read all about it here:
http://www.jgpress.com/inbusiness/archives/_free/001441.html#more
Sincerely,
John Bonitz
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