But the contractor who owns the property promises that it will be both temporary and as unobtrusive as possible.
William Korolyshun told the Planning and Zoning Commission Tuesday that he plans to crush about a half a million yards of material on the site to produce materials he will use on his own jobs.
He is asking for permission to operate the crusher for a maximum of two years and won't be selling the materials, he said, and he won't be operating nights and weekends.
The commission left the public hearing on Korolyshun's application open because it was missing some required components, according to the commission's consultant Michael Joyce.
Joyce said that when BJ's submitted plans, those plans indicated that there were wetlands on Korolyshun's adjoining property. But Korolyshun said that he got a certificate from that city department that the spot is wetlands-free. He said he would provide a copy of the certificate for the zoning commission.
The crusher will be located as far from the Greenway as possible, Korolyshun said, and steps will be taken to keep down the amount of dust it produces. "This is a temporary operation," he said. "Nothing is cast in stone and we will keep it near the railroad tracks and away from the Greenway."
"Provisions for dust control are very important because a lot of people
use the Greenway and this is a very visible sight," Joyce said.
Even using a water truck didn't eliminate dust problems from the recently completed Lowe's Home Improvement project on New Haven Avenue, he said.
"We have read enough in the papers and have had enough problems with dog poop on the Greenway," zoning chairman Theodore Estwan said. "We don't want any dust problems."
Estwan said he isn't opposed to what Korolyshun wants to do but he does want to make sure everything is done properly.
"The commission doesn't have a problem with the content of what you want to do," Estwan told Korolyshun, "we just want to make sure all we dot all of the i's and cross the t's."
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