Mr Chaytor feared greater noise, vibration and dust problems from the unsealed road used by heavy vehicles such as motor scrapers to reach the service workshop.
The submission to TBE2's resource consent application talked about the impact of dust and fumes, despite the family property being separated from the service road by a shelter belt.
"It is affecting our health. My daughter has had many doctor's visits for a persistent cough. Electrical appliances have a shortened life and if my wife dusts in the morning, it is back at night," he said.
There were times when windows and doors had to be closed on the exposed sides of their home. Mr Chaytor said the company had responded to complaints by sending a water truck, but it created as much dust as it settled and achieved nothing.
He said the family experienced considerable vibrations from the heavy machinery using the service road. It felt like an up and down earthquake, with pictures on the wall always moving and some small cracking, he said.
Upon hearing about the Chaytor family's problems from the Bay of Plenty Times Weekend, Tauriko Business Estate developer Bryce Donne vowed to immediately stop the track being used as a thoroughfare by other than heavy vehicles.
He said they could probably create an alternative route to the workshop that took traffic away from the Chaytors' home. "We will do what we can within our powers to address it."
TBE2 has applied to the Tauranga City Council to increase the amount of developable industrial land within Stage 2A by additional excavation of the Gargan Rd plateau. It said the landscape, traffic, land stability, sediment and erosion effects would be no more than minor.
The current consent allowing 500,000 cu m to be mined from the plateau was about 60 per cent completed.
