The owners of Hawkeye Paving Corp. are seeking a special use permit to allow construction of a concrete recycling plant at 6001 State Street, Bettendorf.
A special use permit for the facility will be considered by the city Board of Adjustment at its meeting Thursday (9/8). The vacant site, currently owned by James Mahler of Bettendorf, is zoned general industrial (I-2).
A special use permit is needed because concrete and asphalt mixing plants are not specifically allowed under the I-2 zoning regulations, "which are designed to permit operations in a clean and quiet manner and to protect adjacent district uses and industries within the district," according to the city zoning code.
Such facilities are allowed without a special permit on land zoned I-3 (heavy) industrial.
More than a year ago the board approved a similar special use permit for a concrete redi-mix plant along State Street despite neighbors' concerns about dust, noise and traffic from the facility.
Owners Todd Freimel and Ethan Mahler of Pleasant Valley Redi-Mix promised the facility would be enclosed and landscaped to buffer it from adjacent property owners. The landscaping has been added, but construction of the plant enclosure has yet to be completed.
