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Residents wary of quarrys plans to expand
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Vulcan Materials Friendship Quarry plant manager and new neighbor Mike Henson, center, talks Friday with Hog Mountain Road residents Debbie and Michael Callahan in their driveway. Vulcan’s proposed Flowery Branch annexation could bring the rock quarry to just across the road. The Callahans said they’d settle for a larger setback from the road shoulder, although their Feb. 24 letter to the city asks it to “deny all aspects” of the annexation and rezoning. - photo by NAT GURLEY
Vulcan Construction Materials, owner of the working quarry bounded by Hog Mountain, Blackjack and Swansey roads in Flowery Branch, is seeking to grow its footprint, expanding operations by about 40 acres. Attorneys for Vulcan filed a request for annexation and rezoning of the agriculturally zoned acreage into the Flowery Branch city limits to be designated for a conditional use permit for manufacturing. The land is adjacent to the existing approximately 375-acre Friendship Quarry.