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Planning commission approves rezoning to allow borrow pit for landfill closure despite residents' objections
Summary
The Loudon County Planning Commission approved rezoning three parcels to a community facilities (CFD) district to allow extraction of soils to cap landfill cells, imposing buffers, roadway and use restrictions after extended public comment about mud, enforcement and future reuse.
The Loudon County Regional Planning Commission voted to approve a rezoning from A1 to CFD for three parcels owned by the Loudon County Solid Waste Disposal Commission, allowing the sites to be used as a borrow pit to supply soils for landfill closure.
Commissioner Mike Waller, speaking for the Solid Waste Commission, described the request as a targeted reszone "to be able to take the dirt from the borrow to use" for closure operations. Planning staff read a package of conditions intended to limit impacts: a 400-foot buffer along Highway 72, 200-foot side and rear buffers, at least 2,000 feet of additional pavement from the current road surface, relocation of the scale house and wheel wash at least 1,800 feet farther from the existing pavement, and a restriction that the…
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