In Rare Vote Against Business, Bunnell Sides with Residents and Rejects Rezoning That'd Have Allowed Concrete Plant

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In Rare Vote Against Business, Bunnell Sides with Residents and Rejects Rezoning That'd Have Allowed Concrete Plant

In a rare rejection of a land-use change that would have opened the way for a new company and new jobs in the city, the Bunnell City Commission voted 3-2 to turn down the rezoning of 1.4 acres at the end of Hibiscus Avenue from residential to light industrial. The vote closed the way for Hard Rock Materials Inc., a concrete manufacturing company, to build a batch plant there and on a much larger parcel attached to it. A batch plant mixes cement …