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Planning Commission denies request to apply public-infrastructure overlay to 40-acre Cache Junction parcel
Summary
The Cache County Planning Commission on March 6 voted to deny a rezone request to apply the public-infrastructure overlay to a 40-acre agricultural parcel after staff and commissioners identified environmental and land-use concerns.
The Cache County Planning Commission on March 6 denied a request to apply the public infrastructure overlay (CS rezone) to a 40-acre parcel, citing concerns about the array of uses that overlay allows and site environmental constraints.
Connor, a planner in development services, briefed commissioners that the rezone would permit uses allowed in the public infrastructure overlay: major and minor telecommunication facilities, utility and transmission facilities, public airports and solid waste facilities. The parcel is in agricultural/ranching lands per the county general plan and is eight miles from the nearest parcel already in the overlay, Connor said.
Applicant Keaton Haviland, owner of Clean Slate, told the commission the company hauls organic materials and is seeking a site for a composting and recycling facility. Haviland said majority feedstock would be wood and construction debris, not municipal landfill waste, and that state permitting would be required for compost and for any transfer-station operations.
Commission discussion focused on environmental constraints and downstream drainage. Commissioners noted a natural spring or perennial well on the southern portion of the site that would require engineering and state review; they also cited proximity to Cutler Reservoir watershed areas that have nutrient impairment concerns. Several commissioners said the overlay could open the site to a broader set of recycling and transfer uses over time, and that rezoning agricultural land to an overlay that allows solid-waste and other infrastructure uses deserved caution.
After a public hearing with no speakers for or against, the commission voted to deny Option 1 (application to apply the public infrastructure overlay) and will forward a record and its conclusion to county council. Connor said the commission can draft a letter for county council to consider in subsequent hearings.
Ending: The applicant may pursue other sites or return with additional technical studies and a more limited proposal; the denial does not prevent future applications but means the county will not recommend the overlay on this parcel at this time.
