A North Carolina company that had planned to make a $50 million investment in a clay mining and brick manufacturing operation in Pittsylvania County has withdrawn its zoning applications.Triangle Brick Company of Durham, N.C., which has a 1,328-acre site on Berry Hill Road and Buford Road west of Danville, applied to rezone the land from A-1, Agricultural District, to M-2, Industrial District, Heavy Industry, for brick manufacturing.
The company also applied for a special-use permit on 1,000 acres for open-pit clay and shale mining.Public hearings on both zoning applications were scheduled Tuesday night before the Pittsylvania County Planning Commission in Chatham.At the start of the meeting, however, the county's zoning administrator, Odie Shelton, told planning commission members he received an email late Monday from Scott D. Mollenkopf, president and chief executive officer of Triangle Brick.Mollenkopf said the company was withdrawing its rezoning and special-use permit applications and would not attend the meeting.
Mollenkopf did not give a reason, and efforts to reach Triangle Brick late Tuesday were unsuccessful.The planning commission voted unanimously to allow the company to withdraw.
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