Board grants conditional-use permit for large Circle K Farms feedlot expansion

Planning staff presented a conditional-use permit (CUP) request for property at 3559 County 45 Boulevard in Lake City on behalf of Circle K Farms and applicant Mike Kolenhofer. Megan said the application includes a proposed 350-head farrowing barn and a 1,000-head gilt developer unit with underground manure storage; she said the proposal would bring the site total to 3,458 animal units and include storage of over 500,000 gallons of manure. Staff noted the site already holds more than 1,000 animal units (reported as 2,894) and that both the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s NPDES permit and the MPCA feedlot permit had been issued in the past few weeks and copies are on file.