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Hialeah board approves Waste Connections intermodal rail transfer facility with conditions; vacates adjacent right of way
Summary
The Planning & Zoning Board approved a right‑of‑way vacation and a special‑use permit for Waste Connections to add an intermodal rail transfer facility at its Hialeah campus, subject to conditions including annual progress reports, increased landscape buffers and a 2055 reevaluation clause.
The Planning & Zoning Board approved two linked items allowing Waste Connections of Florida to add an intermodal rail transfer facility at its existing Hialeah campus east of the CSX railroad tracks: (1) a resolution to vacate and abandon a portion of Northwest 30th Eighth Avenue right of way adjacent to the site, and (2) a special‑use permit (SUP) and variance package to expand the legal, nonconforming solid‑waste operation and add rail intermodal transfer operations.
Planning staff described the unified property as roughly 7.12 acres adjacent to the Tri‑Rail market station and CSX tracks. The site currently hosts a solid‑waste transfer operation and an older materials‑recovery/recycling facility the applicant proposes to demolish. Staff recommended approval with…
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