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Planning Commission backs text amendment to allow privately run C&D recycling facility in Prince Frederick
Summary
The Calvert County Planning Commission voted to find a proposed text amendment to the 2019–2028 solid waste management plan consistent with the county comprehensive plan and recommended adoption, clearing the way for an MDE-permitted, privately financed recycling and transfer station at 5340 Catch Road with a permitted capacity of 750 tons/day of construction and demolition waste.
The Calvert County Planning Commission on Feb. 18 recommended that the Board of County Commissioners adopt a text amendment to the county’s 2019–2028 comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan that would allow a privately owned recycling and transfer station at 5340 Catch Road in Prince Frederick.
Department of Public Works Solid Waste staff told the commission the facility would be privately financed and would require a Maryland Department of the Environment refuse disposal permit before it could operate. Maria Labruska, Chief of the Solid Waste Division, said the proposed facility’s permitted capacity would be 750 tons per day of nonhazardous construction and demolition (C&D) waste and that incoming C&D would be separated on-site for permitted processing or transfer to other recycling and disposal facilities.
The amendment was presented as a necessary step because “MDE requires the facility be included within the Calvert County comprehensive plan before they can issue a permit,” staff said. Commissioners asked whether material now is being recycled locally; presenters said C&D currently goes through the county transfer station and much of it is shipped out of county, often to facilities in Virginia. Andrew Springer, a partner with the applicant, said the firm expects most material to be generated in Calvert County and that the facility’s business model centers on diverting material from the county disposal stream into recyclable streams.
The commission considered three formal findings proposed by staff and, by voice vote, approved a motion to find the amendment consistent with the comprehensive plan and to recommend adoption by the Board of County Commissioners.
Next steps: The recommendation is advisory; the Board of County Commissioners will consider the amendment and the applicant must obtain an MDE disposal permit before operations can begin. Staff noted fiscal impacts are unknown until the facility is operating.
