MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — An industrial development in the Dog River Watershed that hasn’t even been built has struggled to find businesses who will agree to the use restrictions on the environmentally sensitive land.
The Mobile City Council unanimously approved the $650 million project in December . It included a list of 22 use restrictions. To District 4 Councilman Ben Reynolds’s disappointment, a new contract to negotiate the use restriction is before the city council — nine months later.
“Through a whole lot of discussion, debate, and back and forth, we found a way to reach a yes,” Reynolds said.
According to the list, the 87-acre property must not be used as:
- Coal Handling Facility
- Manufacturing Hazardous Materials
- Mining & Quarrying
- Drilling and Exploration (Oil and Gas)
- Dredged Material Management Facility
- Hazardous Substance Storage Tank
- Liquified Natural Gas Storage and Processing
- Oil and Gas Storage
- Petroleum Recovery
- Petroleum Recycling
- Composting Facility
- Hazardous Waste Disposal
- Hazardous Waste Transfer
- Junkyard
- Recycling Drop Off
- Recycling Plant
- Recycling Transfer Station
- Remediation Services
- Solid Waste Facility
- Solid Waste Disposal
- Solid Waste Transfer
- Waste Management Service