“The agreement has allowed the company to avoid fines on several occasions, the news organizations have documented.”
The Moroun family’s Crown Enterprises bought more than 160 lots in Cadillac Heights and dropped a concrete plant in the middle of them. Residents have filed about 80 dust complaints. The city wrote a 2022 agreement that lets the company skip fines, then says it didn’t know a concrete plant was part of the plan. Now the planning commission wants to rezone and Crown’s lawyer is threatening to sue. A billionaire family versus a neighborhood that is mostly barren lots they own. Guess who has been winning.