Fair Oaks Ranch officials and residents have launched a full court press against a planned recycling plant in the area.
But the application for a rock crusher wasn’t intended for a quarry, said Bobcat Trucking President Brandon Eagan. Eagan told the San Antonio Report Tuesday that he and his colleagues had been planning to build a recycling plant. Rock crushers can also be used to recycle concrete and asphalt.
With that power, Maples determined that the proposed rock and concrete crusher operation “IS NOT an allowable use within the city limits, regardless of zoning district,” he wrote in a blog post published on the city’s website on Feb. 8. protesting the construction of a rock-crushing business in the area. As of Tuesday, more than 750 people have signed it.
The petition lists potential effects residents would like to prevent: air pollution, noise and light pollution, pollution of groundwater and of the Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone and negative effects on endangered species.