For years, Skeeter Miller-Wright, on behalf of the McLean Lake Residents Association, has argued with city council and fought court battles in an effort to ensure land in the area wasn't rezoned to permit the concrete batch plant proposed by Territorial Contracting.

On Monday evening, council finally passed third reading of the rezoning bylaw that will let the batch plant go ahead, with the land now zoned Quarries restricted instead of Future Development.

There was no one on hand arguing council should not proceed with the final reading of the bylaw.

"We're very disappointed that city council has again ignored the interest of thousands of residents,” Miller-Wright said in an interview earlier this week.

No presentations nor arguments against the rezoning have been made to council in the last few weeks as the zoning change approached.

However, Miller-Wright pointed out that residents have been letting council know for years they don't want a batch plant in the area.

Miller-Wright last made a presentation to council on the matter in June. He argued the rezoning should have been put off until the city has wrapped up its review and adopted a new Official Community Plan.

"It's not just McLean Lake residents,” he said. After so many years of raising the issue, he added, it seems clear the city is going to ignore the request of residents from throughout Whitehorse to protect the McLean Lake area.

The decision follows a number of court actions on the matter.

The zoning for the site includes a number of provisions coming out of the court decisions, such as concrete plants being the only principle use in the zone and the concrete batch plant only being in operation as long as quarrying is happening in the McLean Lake Extraction Area.

The site must also be returned to its natural state once the plant is out of operation.

The city also put off the rezoning until a development agreement was in place.

Although the residents' association isn't planning any immediate action on the matter right now, Miller-Wright said there is some research being done on the issue and a decision could be made later on whether to take it any further.