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Commission approves five‑year conditional use permit for enclosed composting operation
Summary
The West Fargo City Commission approved a conditional use permit allowing a temporary, small‑scale enclosed food‑waste composting operation on an approximately 4‑acre farmstead in the city's extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction, subject to conditions and a five‑year sunset or annexation.
The West Fargo City Commission approved a conditional use permit (CUP) to allow a small, private, enclosed food‑waste composting operation to operate in the A (Agricultural) zoning district for a temporary period.
Aaron Nelson, the city’s director of planning and zoning, told the commission the proposal is for a roughly 4‑acre farmstead about a mile northwest of the city’s sewage lagoons and would use two fully enclosed rotary composting drums to process food waste collected from local restaurants,…
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