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County and operator spar over compost windrows and permitted soil‑processing
Summary
At a code‑enforcement update, staff said non‑green waste remained in the site’s windrows and the property was still noncompliant; the operator argued mechanical processing and selling mulch are necessary to remove debris, while staff said sales require a valid CUP and cautioned about soil‑processing rules.
County code enforcement staff updated the council on their 60‑day inspection of an industrial recycling/composting site (Membock / GT 500 KR LLC) and said inspections on Dec. 11 and 18 found most items remediated except for persistent non‑green waste in compost windrows. Scott Buchanan summarized the findings and said the property remained noncompliant with respect to windrow cleanup: "Everything with the exception of the pallets... were still present," he reported on the first inspection.
Applicant representatives and counsel responded that mechanical sifting and adding topsoil are integral steps in producing mulch and economically necessary to remove embedded trash from windrows; counsel said staff initially told them they could keep machinery but were later told they could not process or sell the mulch while the CUP was suspended. "We were told we could sell the tires and the trash... but we were not able to sell the mulch," counsel said. Council members debated whether to permit limited processing strictly to remove windrow debris or to let the compliance timeline run to April 15 and then re‑evaluate; several members directed staff to treat the item as a status update and return on or after April 15 to assess compliance with outstanding NOVs.
