Concrete Crushing Permit and Light Industrial Zoning Sought for 5850 Elliott Reeder Road
ZC 25 207 Wallace Hall rezoning and concrete crusher case
Exhibit A Concrete Crushing Plan
TCEQ Permit
City of Fort Worth Briefs Community Leaders on Jan. 15. Key points summarized. Attendees included District 5 Councilperson Deborah Peoples and District 11 Councilperson Jeanette Martinez.
Neighborhoods of East Fort Worth Conference Call on 5850 Elliott Reeder Road zoning case NEW
Concrete crushing phases planned for 30 acres plus flood mitigation. Estimates for crushing 1.5 million cubic yards of concrete vary from 5 to 8 years, depending on hours of operation and ability to crush continuously.
Quick take
On Dec.9, 2025, Councilperson Jeanette Martinez, District 11, notified neighborhoods near property owned by Wallace Hall Jr. at 5850 Elliott Reeder Road, that a case had been filed with the City of Fort Worth seeking a conditional use permit (CUP) to crush rock on that location and also rezone more than 48 acres to light industrial from commercial multifamily. The vacant property is near the Performance Foodservice refrigerated warehouse, 5401 E. 1st Street, owned by Scannell Inc. City staff plans to recommend approval. The case has been delayed until Feb.11 to give more time for input. A CUP is a temporary permit that is time limited.
The City is allowing concrete crushing to continue with TCEQ air quality permit only.
History with property
Hall unsuccessfully attempted to rezone the same property for a concrete crushing operation a decade ago. He trucked concrete onto the site himself, then requested a permit to crush it. Neighborhood pushback was intense and effective. The application was denied. Since that time, Neighborhoods of East Fort Worth Alliance, representing multiple Eastside associations including West Meadowbrook, supported the construction of the Performance Foodservice refrigeration warehouse on the south side of the Hall property. Hall owns the land on which the warehouse is built. Performance Foodservice is a tenant. NEFW favored the refrigeration warehouse in part to protect the Trinity River from more intense uses. The current case targets much of the remaining acreage along Elliott Reeder Road on the north side of the Hall property.
Neighborhood response
Arguments against both the concrete crushing option and rezoning are below and may be used in your communications. The late notice to neighborhoods is in part due to lack of communication with District 11 Councilperson Martinez’s office about ongoing negotiations. Neighborhood representatives last spoke to the property owners on January 29, 2025 and have had no further communications. NEFW will oppose the case and seeks letters, emails and personal testimony to stop the action.
Why Zoning Commission should say “No” with prejudice
Key points against Conditional Use Permit and Rezoning
Gateway Park Impact
The property on 5850 Elliott Reeder Road is located near the north entrance to Gateway Park and close to the Trinity River waterfront. The City of Fort Worth has presented no evidence that the potential for environmental damage has been assessed, nor consideration given to future river front access. Rezoning from the current commercial multifamily to light industrial would foreclose any expansion of Trinity Trails or use of riverfront for recreation. A City that values its waterways does not build a fortress of warehouses on its riverbanks. Although the property is flanked by floodplain, the addition of concrete debris piles a decade ago resulted in a reclassification of area by FEMA.
Performance Foodservice Warehouse Cooperation
Neighborhoods of East Fort Worth supported the siting of the Performance Foodservice warehouse in part to prevent more intense uses along the river. Owner Scannell agreed to build a landscape buffer between the warehouse and Gateway Park as part of the negotiations; however, it has failed to live up to that promise. Scannell had also indicated to NEFW that the warehouse would prevent any concrete crushing on adjacent property because of limited road access. City claims a second warehouse will be only additional development allowed on the 48-acre tract post crushing and rezoning.
Lack of Communication
In January 2025, NEFW discussed the potential for further development with Hall’s representatives. No further negotiations occurred. On Dec.9, 2025, City staff notified D11 Councilperson Jeanette Martinez that a case would be coming before the Zoning Commission on Jan.14. NEFW and the District 11 Councilperson’s office were left with little time to inform their communities. The timing of the filing so close to the holidays seems calculated.
Rezoning vs CUP
A rezoning case and a conditional use permit filing are two separate issues. City ordinances and Texas law do not allow an operation to proceed while a case is in progress. City of Fort Worth maintains that the two actions must move forward together to allow more than 1 million cubic yards of concrete to be crushed in preparation for development. Concrete crushing is not allowed in the current C zoning. Neighborhoods maintain the correct procedure is to rezone first; then apply for a CUP, as prescribed by law and City code.
Impact on traffic, environment and river
No studies appear to have been done on traffic impact, environmental issues, stormwater runoff, floodplain concerns, or influence on long-range plans for the river. City Staff’s position that light industrial zoning is right in this case is because of related uses, the Total gas well drilling site and the Performance Foodservice warehouse. E. 1st Street was built as a secondary access to downtown, not as a commercial truck corridor for warehouses. Staff says that once platting is done, such studies will be completed. Sixty trucks a day on average arrive and depart from the existing Performance Foodservice warehouse. Expectations are volume could double, creating a hazard for cyclists and a negative impact on residential streets.
Ignoring rules, regulations
The applicant, Wallace Hall Jr, preemptively began crushing rock on the property in question before receiving an air quality permit from the Texas Commission for Environmental Quality or a certificate of occupancy from the City. City staff ordered the operation closed on Dec. 3, 2025 for lack of a permit and proper zoning. Neighbors reported the unapproved activity to the City after noticing a sign on the access road for a concrete crushing business. Based on Hall’s recent violations alone, neighborhoods affected by the proposed rezoning and concrete crushing operation need more than promises and reassurances to support any change of this magnitude. City has allowed concrete crushing TO CONTINUE without a CUP.
Industrial development encroaching on marginalized communities
Garden of Eden, the City of Fort Worth’s first African American Historic and Cultural Landmark District, is one of the closest neighborhoods to the Wallace Hall property. A small enclave on the bend of the Trinity, Garden of Eden is one of five historic Black communities threatened by intense land uses being studied by the University of Texas at Arlington. The City has acknowledged its historical lack of investment and encroachment on minority communities over the years.
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The Hon. Mattie Parker, Mayor, City of Fort Worth
RE Opposition to ZC-25-2
Dear Mayor Parker and Councilmember ((Add the name of your councilmember)):
I live in City Council District ((add the district number))
I am writing to urge you to oppose ZC-25-207 seeking a conditional use permit (CUP) and harsh industrial zoning change to allow the landowner, Wallace Hall, Jr., to establish a concrete crushing business in order to remove the rubble he trucked into the site in 2015.
This site is in the midst of an immense open greenspace that is home to countless wild animals and birds, adjacent to the Trinity Trails system, and across the street from the eastern portion of Gateway Park – the City’s only municipal park and one of the largest municipal parks in the United States.
The landowner’s representatives met with representatives from affected neighborhoods in October & November 2024 and January 2025. At those meetings, the community reps voiced the following categories of concern:
Lack of detailed crushing activity site plan and operations plan.
Environmental issues including air quality, dust, and noise.
Truck traffic and road conditions.
At the January 2025 meeting the community presented the landowner’s representatives with a list of mitigations that they believed would address the bulk of these concerns. Instead of following up with these recommendations, the landowner opened a crushing operation before obtaining the TCEQ permitting and zoning changes needed to do so legally in October 2025 (see attached photos). Meanwhile, his representatives negotiated with the City staff to advance a bundled zoning change request in January 2026.
The affected communities were excluded from these discussions, and only learned of this on December 9, 2025 – five weeks before the proposed zoning hearing and during a period with two major annual holidays.
In addition, the Zoning Change Plan Review Comments report dated December 8, 2025 cited the lack of access for emergency vehicles to reach this site. The proposed site is adjacent to two gas well pad sites.
The landowner has demonstrated on numerous occasions that he will violate City rules and regulations, as evidenced most recently by his setting up and operating an illegal crushing operation before obtaining necessary permits and zoning. This is just the lates of a long series of violation
We urge you to deny this request with prejudice. The proposal need to include serious consideration of the mitigations recommended by the community, and also to separate the CUP request from the zoning change request for harsh heavy industrial uses.
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Gateway Park concerns
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RE: Opposition to ZC-25-207
Dear Mayor Parker and Councilmember ((Add the name of your councilmember)):
I live in City Council District ((add the district number)).
I am writing to urge you to oppose ZC-25-207 seeking a conditional use permit (CUP) and zoning change to allow the landowner, Wallace Hall, Jr., to establish a concrete crushing business in order to remove the rubble he trucked into the site in 2015. We understand that a major factor in this is the desire of Scannell and Performance Food Group to expand their warehouse footprint in this area.
In 2021 when Scannell and Jackson Walker representatives were negotiating with the White Lake Hills neighborhood to secure support for the current warehouse, the community requested that the landscaping between the street and the warehouse be designed to be compatible with the recreational uses at Gateway Park immediately across the street. The purpose was to soften the appearance of the harsh industrial warehouse from the ball fields, cyclists, and other uses that Gateway Park and Trinity Trails users prefer.
Instead, the resulting property has done nothing to soften this transition. One only has to look to the immediate east of the warehouse property to see how Total and Wright, which are also highly industrial, have provided a landscaping buffer. Photo attached.
We urge you to deny this request with prejudice. The integrity of Gateway Park and the Trinity Trails hike and bike system should not be compromised in order to expand heavy industrial uses in this area.
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Landscape buffer between Total and Wright properties on East 1st Street at Oakland Blvd
Sign erected in late October announcing the business. At that time, there was no TCEQ permit or zoning in place to make this a legal activity.
Photo of the illegal crushing operation taken in November 2025, before obtaining TCEQ permit and zoning change required to make this activity legal.
Lack of communications
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The Hon. Mattie Parker, Mayor, City of Fort Worth, The Hon. ((add the name of your Councilmember))
RE: Opposition to ZC-25-207
Dear Mayor Parker and Councilmember ((Add the name of your councilmember)):
I live in City Council District ((add the district number)).
I am writing to urge you to oppose ZC-25-207 seeking a conditional use permit (CUP) and zoning change to heavy industrial (I) to allow this landowner, Wallace Hall, Jr., to establish a concrete crushing business in order to remove the rubble he trucked into to the site in 2015. This site is in the midst of an immense open greenspace that is home to countless wild animals and birds, adjacent to the Trinity River, adjacent to the Trinity Trails system, and across the street from the eastern portion of Gateway Park – the City’s only municipal park and one of the largest municipal parks in the United States.
The landowner’s representatives met with representatives from White Lake Hills in October and November 2024 to discuss this proposal and were provided with a history of the community’s concerns to this proposal. A third meeting was held in January 2025 and included representatives from the Riverside Alliance and Woodhaven. At this meeting, the community presented a list of conditions that would be required to address their environmental and safety concerns with this proposal.
Subsequent to the January 2025 meeting, the affected communities have not been included in any negotiations on this proposal. Instead, they received notice of how this proposal has advanced on December 9, 2025 when Councilmember Martinez forwarded an email she received from Dana Burghdoff stating that the case was going to the Zoning Commission on January 14, 2026 – just five weeks away, and a period that includes two major holidays.
The current request bundles the request for the CUP and the zoning change to I in the same action. It would be better to unbundle these into two separate requests. Without a site plan and contract from Scannell/Performance Food Group verifying the plans to expand the warehouse, we have seen first hand that Scannell’s promises are worthless.
Clearly, the landowner’s representatives engaged in extensive negotiations with City staff following the January 2025 meeting and completely excluded community representatives from these communications.
We urge you to deny this request with prejudice. The affected communities should not be excluded from negotiations for such a serious proposal, and these two requests should not be bundled into a single action. The CUP to allegedly remove the rubble is a distinctly separate matter from the zoning proposal for warehouse expansion.
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Light Island Concerns
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RE: Opposition to ZC-25-207
Dear Mayor Parker and Councilmember ((Add the name of your councilmember))
I live in City Council District ((add the district number)).
I am writing to urge you to oppose ZC-25-207 seeking a conditional use permit (CUP) and zoning change to a harsh industrial use to allow the landowner, Wallace Hall, Jr., to establish a concrete crushing business in order to remove the rubble he trucked into the site in 2015.
We understand that a major factor in this is the desire of Scannell and Performance Food Group to expand their warehouse footprint in this area. However, without a signed letter of intent, site plan, or contract, we are dubious about this stated intention. For this reason, we also believe that the two requests – CUP and changing the zoning to I – should be separated.
This site is located in an immense open greenspace that is home to many indigenous species of wild animals and birds, and also a temporary home to seasonally migrating flocks. In 2025 the City of Fort Worth agreed to dim the lights in downtown Fort Worth during the peak migration periods to reduce the deaths of migrating birds.
The current Performance warehouse is designed as a bright light island, with floodlights placed around the perimeter of the building that beam bright floodlights upward into the sky, outward into the surrounding green space, and downward onto their pavement. They have not placed any kinds of shields on these lights to direct the lights only where needed to secure their property.
An expansion of this type of warehouse project will only further erode the value of this open greenspace for our local and migrating wild animals and birds.
We urge you to deny this request with prejudice. We don’t need to have downtown Fort Worth dimming their lights as a symbolic gesture of support for migrating birds when in an existing open greenspace warehouses are allowed to contribute immensely to light pollution.
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