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Commission recommends PUD for Dakota Waste Solutions composting and recycling facility; MPCA permit pending
Summary
Lakeville Planning Commission unanimously recommended City Council approval of a PUD, preliminary plat and development-stage plan for Dakota Waste Solutions, a phased, indoor source-separated organics recycling and composting facility on a 37-acre site; staff emphasized coordination with MPCA and county licensing and identified gas-easement and permitting timing as outstanding issues.
The Lakeville City Planning Commission on Nov. 20 voted unanimously to recommend that the City Council approve rezoning of a southeast Lakeville site from I-1 (Light Industrial) to a Planned Unit Development (PUD) and to approve a preliminary two-lot plat and PUD development-stage plan for Dakota Waste Solutions LLC, a proposed indoor organics recycling and composting facility.
Applicant representative Mike Brant (Kinley Horn) described a phased facility on about 37 acres at the southeast corner of 215th Street and Kaparia Avenue with four buildings: material intake and depackaging, an in‑vessel greenhouse (negative-pressure, filtered composting), a yard/wood processing area and finishing/curing pads. Brant said the operation would accept source-separated organics, yard waste and wood products from…
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