tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6246743662284890173.post4606069876164145256..comments2023-09-16T04:58:07.261-04:00Comments on the Annandale Blog: Planning Commissioners tour asphalt plantAnnandale Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07543558586252790593noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6246743662284890173.post-88283504410806358482018-04-16T20:57:04.935-04:002018-04-16T20:57:04.935-04:00Probably so, all the developers have left for gree...Probably so, all the developers have left for greener pastures. May as well be an asphalt plant. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6246743662284890173.post-65715397102611575492018-04-16T20:52:08.711-04:002018-04-16T20:52:08.711-04:00I hope residents of the affected area continue to ...I hope residents of the affected area continue to press the issue, including letter writing, emails, etc. It's not too late. However, if our supposed representatives disregard our health, safety, and well-being, we do have recourse - vote the bums out. (Sadly, FFX residents seem predisposed to re-elect their sclerotic leadership. We get the government we deserve, I suppose.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6246743662284890173.post-27656808717050398182018-04-16T19:56:44.260-04:002018-04-16T19:56:44.260-04:00Anytime I'm around paving for a few hours, I g...Anytime I'm around paving for a few hours, I get a headache from Hades. <br /><br />Is a letter to the planning commission at such a late date going to make any difference? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6246743662284890173.post-81275589254886734562018-04-16T18:53:42.646-04:002018-04-16T18:53:42.646-04:00Well if it doesn't work out I am certain they ...Well if it doesn't work out I am certain they can be accommodated in Baileys Crossroads They would be right next to a great labor force at the new homeless center. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6246743662284890173.post-27061835740448914712018-04-16T13:30:54.879-04:002018-04-16T13:30:54.879-04:00I was at the tour. Cody, the regional manager, sai...I was at the tour. Cody, the regional manager, said at the beginning of the tour, "I don't know if the plant is running right now." I assume a regional manager would know if the plant were running, so one can assume it wasn't. There was a lot of noise from moving around materials, but apparently they were not cooking asphalt during our visit. Note also that this plant is a different type and much smaller than what Vulcan is proposing and the Alexandria City governmment keeps them on a very tight leash.Virginia pavinng has towers which the the tour guide thought were ~60' tall; Vulcan wants a special exemption to build 135'. As far as I know, Vulcan does not even do the spraying and vacuuming to keep down dust that Virginia Paving does, and this when they are trying to get sommething from Fairfax County. <br />I came down with a resiratory infection with a fever two days after the tour. Not sure it's related since the timeinterval was so short, but food for thought:"Short term air pollution tied to respiratory infections' https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/895192. Air pollution can be dangerous even if you can't smell or sense it without instruments.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6246743662284890173.post-8281542147503957142018-04-15T13:22:30.630-04:002018-04-15T13:22:30.630-04:00Thanks for this & pointing out the differences...Thanks for this & pointing out the differences in the plant types. I spoke to people who attended reviewed contemporaneous notes. My understanding of the "location need" is that the location is more based upon keeping costs down, rather than a hard line rule of where the plant must be located. So in essence, it's appears on a very limited review (not accounting for all factors) to be less expensive to have a plant closer to other jurisdictions, say, than to locate it in Lorton, where Vulcan already has land that was obtained through a 148-acre land swamp with the County in 2015. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com