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Planning commission recommends rezoning for city transfer station on Freehold Drive
Summary
The Ames City Planning and Zoning Commission voted to recommend rezoning about 9.5 acres on Freehold Drive from General Industrial to Government/Airport to allow a city resource‑recovery and transfer station; staff cited consistency with the Ames 2040 plan and described floodplain and operational safeguards. The item will go to city council for first reading.
Parker Walsh, an assistant planner for Ames City, presented a city‑initiated rezoning request to change five parcels totaling about 9.5 acres at and near 400 Freehold Drive from General Industrial (GI) to Government/Airport (SGA) to accommodate a resource‑recovery and recycling campus run by the city.
Walsh told the commission the transfer station would accept municipal solid waste, recyclables and yard waste for off‑site transfer and disposal, and that the rezoning is consistent with the jurisdiction’s Ames 2040 plan. He said the site is within the 100‑year floodplain and that site‑plan review…
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