A Dallas-based distribution company is awaiting one more green light – this time from Mineral Wells City Council – for the construction of a new petroleum bulk storage/processing facility.
The Mineral Wells Planning and Zoning Commission met Monday evening and unanimously approved the replat and site plan for Buckley Oil Inc.’s new facility with a 4-0-1 vote. Commission member Richard Ball abstained and members Gene Ender and Zelda Thompson were absent.
The approved site plan indicated the construction of a 17,000-square-foot warehouse and 2,400-square-foot office on the approximately 8-acre tract located in the 3800 block of Industrial Parkway. The site plan indicated landscaping in Texas evergreens with native grasses.
Interim Building Official Robert Turk said there would also be 20 to 40 tanks on the site, though the number would depend on whether the tanks were horizontal or vertical.
In June, the Mineral Wells City Council approved both an ordinance adding a definition and amending a permitted land use table to include petroleum and industrial chemical bulk storage or processing facilities, which then allowed Buckley Oil Inc. to expand into Mineral Wells. At that meeting, the company’s facility coordinator, Linda Henry, told the council they will store, “primarily oils [and] basic industrial solvents.”
Bulk quantities would range from 1,000-to 30,000-gallon tanks that, according to the company, would be compliant with Texas Commission on Environmental Quality requirements. Henry also said the storage would also be in accordance with the 2006 International Fire Code.
Turk noted that the replat and site plan will appear before the city council members Tuesday for the final vote.