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Council defers approval of junkyard and recycling-transfer special exceptions amid enforcement concerns

Homestead City Council · November 20, 2025
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Summary

The council deferred three quasi-judicial items for a 1.9-acre site at 175 SW 14th Ave (site-plan amendment, junkyard special exception and recycling-transfer special exception) to January after staff noted conditions for approval and council raised repeated code-violation and enforcement concerns.

Councilmembers deferred consideration of three quasi-judicial land-use requests on Nov. 19 that would have allowed a junkyard and a recycling-and-transfer facility at 175 Southwest 14th Avenue.

Planning staff and the applicant—s attorney described a remodeled site plan with 23 parking spaces, an 8-foot masonry perimeter wall, and conditions that would limit the sorting and recycling to copper, aluminum, brass, appliance…

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