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Crookston council moves ordinance change on allowing slaughterhouses to next meeting after heated debate
Summary
After public comment and council debate about enforcement, outdoor livestock and scale, council agreed to bring back the previously tabled ordinance to allow slaughterhouses in the heavy industrial zone as a permitted use for a formal vote at the next regular meeting; business owner and residents urged approval with local safeguards.
The Crookston Ways & Means Committee directed staff to return a previously tabled ordinance to the next regular council meeting that would allow slaughterhouses and processing plants as a permitted use in the city’s heavy industrial zone, after hours of discussion Nov. 16.
Staff summarized three options: permit slaughterhouses outright in the heavy industrial zone; define and allow a small-scale slaughterhouse; or allow…
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