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Zoning board upholds city finding that medical-waste operation at 1000 Thomas Beck Road is not lawfully established
Summary
The Des Moines Zoning Board of Adjustment denied an appeal from Thomas Beck 1 LLC, upholding a zoning enforcement determination that the MedShred/Med Shred operation on Thomas Beck Road falls under the city's junk and salvage yard use and was not lawfully established.
The Des Moines Zoning Board of Adjustment voted to deny an appeal of a zoning enforcement determination for property at 1000 Thomas Beck Road, upholding the city's finding that a medical-waste and shredding operation there was not lawfully established under local zoning rules.
The ruling came after the board reviewed staff's written determination and evidence that the business known as MedShred (and an associated paper-shredding operation called The Shredder) was functioning in a manner the zoning office classified as a "junk or salvage yard" under the municipal code. Chris Hosko, the city's zoning enforcement officer, told the board that "MedShred is operating within the junk or salvage yard classification as described in chapter 134, 3.64 of [the] municipal code," and…
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