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Board approves Coastal Waste transfer-station site plan with operational limits and conditions
Summary
The planning board approved a major site plan allowing Coastal Waste & Recycling to add a 16,000-square-foot indoor transfer station at 2281 NW 16th St., permitting Class I municipal solid waste storage indoors and requiring staff conditions; the applicant expects existing truck volumes to continue.
The Pompano Beach Planning & Zoning Board on Tuesday approved a major site plan for Coastal Waste & Recycling to add a 16,000-square-foot transfer building at 2281 Northwest Sixteenth Street, allowing the facility to temporarily store Class I municipal solid waste indoors subject to city conditions.
Development Services planner Jonathan Caddy said the parcel sits at the northeast corner of Bridal Avenue and Southeast Sixth Street and is zoned Special Industrial with an industrial land-use designation. The proposed building would be 37 feet tall and include eight parking spaces; Caddy said the project already received DRC approval on May 7 and Architectural Appearance Committee approval on July 1.
Zoning attorney Matthew Scott, representing Coastal Waste, said the site has operated as a permitted solid-waste management facility since about 2010 and that the new building would enable temporary indoor storage of Class I municipal solid waste — primarily organic materials — while continuing existing handling of Class III construction/demolition debris. “This is a transfer station to collect that waste from the smaller trucks… until a certain amount is collected, and then a larger truck is brought to take that for final dumping,” Scott said.
Scott and operations manager Josh Rogers described current and expected operations. Rogers said the facility employs about 11 people and the addition would add roughly four employees. Scott estimated large trucks hauling consolidated loads to landfills average about 15–20 departures per day; he said the site currently receives roughly 70–100 smaller collection truck visits per day and that staff does not expect those in/out counts to increase due to the proposal.
Board members pressed on traffic, odor control and hours. Scott and Rogers said access points will not change, the project adds no new curb cuts, and the building’s roll-down doors face the interior to help control odors; staff and the applicant noted Class I material may be stored only for limited periods under regulation and the applicant stated a 48-hour maximum storage reference during discussion. Rogers said trucks will use existing access and that the facility has worked to mitigate odors with interior linings and neutralizer systems used at other locations.
After closing the public hearing with no speakers, the board voted to approve the major site plan subject to the conditions listed in the staff report (conditions A–E). Board members voting yes included Carla Coleman, Tundra King, Gigi Dubek, Paul Fisher, Robert Hartsell, Carrie Ann Worley and Fred Stacer.
The approval was for the site plan only; the project remains subject to the listed staff conditions and any required building permits and operating regulations.
