{"id":257761,"date":"2026-04-20T11:04:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T11:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/257761\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T11:04:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T11:04:06","slug":"southeast-tarrant-residents-upset-by-industrial-neighbors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/257761\/","title":{"rendered":"Southeast Tarrant residents upset by industrial neighbors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inside the fence, a tousled donkey tries the nerves of a rich warm mahogany-colored horse while a half dozen chickens roost in the warm soil. Outside the fence, porta-potties are towed from a squat, metal storage building past a dirt recycling plant.<\/p>\n

This plot of southeast unincorporated Tarrant County used to be a slice of heaven for Eden Road South resident Neil Foreman. Lately, his neighborhood feels a lot less like Adam and Eve\u2019s garden.<\/p>\n

When Foreman moved to Texas six years ago, he bought the house sight-unseen. The house needed some fixing up, but the property was perfect for his family of four. He soon rescued Benji, a retired racehorse who has never made a gambler a dime, and adopted Percy, the naughty but endearing donkey.<\/p>\n

His kids started in the Mansfield school district and are excelling in the classroom. Foreman and his wife have eight years until they are empty-nesters, and he said they won\u2019t be sticking around Tarrant County long after that.<\/p>\n

Living in an unincorporated area means landowners can do whatever they want on their property with very few restrictions. Next door, Foreman\u2019s neighbors built a greenhouse with a swimming pool inside it. Two doors down, someone is adding to their sizable collection of jalopies.<\/p>\n

But the very same freedom that attracts some people gives companies the ability to create \u201can industrial nightmare,\u201d as Foreman puts it.<\/p>\n

\"Hudson Hudson Aggregates, owned by Northern Ireland-based CDE Group, is in complete compliance with all permits and approvals, according to the company leadership. Neighbors still complain about the raucous the facility brought to their area. Rachel Royster rroyster@star-telegram.com <\/p>\n

A couple of years after the family settled into their new home, the luscious green field across the street was chopped up and sold to companies who subsequently created a semi-truck parking lot, put up metal storage buildings and \u2014 the latest addition \u2014 a dirt recycling plant.<\/p>\n

The biggest issue Foreman has with the new neighbors is their lack of consideration.<\/p>\n

When one landowner stuck a fireworks stand on the property across the way and was letting consumers shoot them off on-site, Foreman fought it by founding the Church of Peace and Quiet<\/a>. Texas law says fireworks cannot be shot within 600 feet of a church, so his congregation put a stop to the noise.<\/p>\n

Now, another industrial company moved in about six months ago and set up a waste recycling plant for soil. It has brought along more trucks, noise and bright spotlights that stay on through the night.<\/p>\n

Foreman has reached out multiple times to Hudson Aggregates to voice his concerns, but he said he\u2019s been stonewalled.<\/p>\n

\"Hudson Hudson Aggregates, owned by Northern Ireland-based CDE Group, is in complete compliance with all permits and approvals, according to the company leadership. Neighbors still complain about the raucous the facility brought to their area. Rachel Royster rroyster@star-telegram.com <\/p>\n

Darren Eastwood, business development director for Hudson Aggregates\u2019s Northern Ireland-based parent company, did not answer questions from the Star-Telegram, but sent a written statement in response.<\/p>\n

Eastwood said the facility\u2019s activities are in compliance with all permits and approvals. The company is proud to provide a valuable recycling and renewable resource facility for Arlington, Mansfield and the Metroplex. Eastwood said they have \u201calways sought to proactively engage with the community and neighbors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hudson Aggregates plans to host an open house where neighbors will be invited to see the operation and processes, Eastwood said.<\/p>\n

One of the few laws around unincorporated areas in Texas code says landowners cannot create public nuisance<\/a>, but none of the given definitions apply to the aggregate facility.<\/p>\n

Foreman\u2019s county commissioner, Alisa Simmons, said there\u2019s not much she can do for residents in unincorporated areas. Simmons said Foreman \u201cknows exactly how the unincorporated works\u201d and refused to answer further questions.<\/p>\n

The only option left, Foreman said, is to spend an egregious amount of money on an attorney, which he does not want to do.<\/p>\n

Dejected, Foreman said he just hopes someone does something to help him and his neighbors. Until then, he\u2019ll be counting down the days until he can leave the county behind while the value of his property diminishes with each new industrial neighbor.<\/p>\n


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Rachel Royster<\/a><\/p>\n

Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n

Rachel Royster is a news and government reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, specifically focused on Tarrant County. She joined the newsroom after interning at the Austin American-Statesman, the Waco Tribune-Herald and Capital Community News in DC. A Houston native and Baylor grad, Rachel enjoys traveling, reading and being outside. She welcomes any and all news tips to her email.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inside the fence, a tousled donkey tries the nerves of a rich warm mahogany-colored horse while a half…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-257761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-fort-worth","9":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","10":"tag-fort-worth-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}