In an unexpected turn, Austin Bridge and Road to close asphalt plant in Joppa this month | SharonFGrigsby
and its godfather, Downwinders at Risk, Bazaldua had forsaken his constituents to cozy up to polluters.Council environment committee chair Paula Blackmon, who was in some of the most recent discussions with Austin Bridge and Road, told me “listening, then listening some more” was the key.
This City Council, the most environmentally friendly in Dallas history, responded last year with a new message to industry: Bazeldua entered the room planning to tell Schranz he wouldn’t support renewal, but the Austin Bridge and Road team surprised him with the news “their time had come at this location.”
An overhead view of the Joppa neighborhood in 2020, showing the community hemmed in by industrial development to the west, and the Trinity River to the east. If Austin Bridge and Road didn’t correct those problems within 21 days, a hearing before the City Plan Commission would be required, greatly diminishing any chance for a permit renewal.
Cars along Carbondale Street near Union Pacific Railroad tracks in Joppa, last year. Joppa is only 6 miles southeast of downtown Dallas but has remained isolated and neglected for generations.Kleinman acknowledged the MasterPlan staffers working on what seemed like standard paperwork should have been aware of the political climate in Joppa.
For some factions, it was too late. That includes Downwinders at Risk, for decades the most aggressive environmental group in North Texas and involved in Joppa since 2018.
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