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CASE # REQUEST FOR A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT TO CONSTRUCT AND OPERATE A TRANSFER STATION IN TI-IE BUSINESS WAREHOUSE DISTRICT; CASE OF AcE SOLID WASTE Background: As you know, Ace Solid Waste is proposing to relocate their operation from Andover to Ramsey. The facility will include one building to house their offices and truck terminal and a second building to be used as a transfer station for processing recyclables and mixed solid wastes. City Code requires a conditional use permit for the transfer station part of their operation. Observations: Basically, the route trucks enter the transfer station through one of 4 overhead doors and unload their materials onto the floor. The mixed solid wastes are then loaded into open-top semi-trailers and recylcables are loaded into either open-top or van trailers for transportation to final destinations. There is one lowered dock inside the building for loading open-top trailers and there is one standard back-in dock for loading van trailers. It is Staff's understanding that the County permit would require washing the floor at the end of each day. Therefore, any partial load remaining on the floor at the end of the work day would be loaded into a semi-trailer and the trailer remains parked inside the building overnight. The loading of the trailer to capacity is completed the next day when incoming route tracks start arriving again. Reeyclables are stored in an area of the building separate from the mixed solid waste tipping floor. Recyclables are stored on the floor in the building until theY reach a full semi load capacity. At that time, they are Ioaded onto the semi-trailers and shipped to their final destination. The proposed hours of operation for the transfer station are 7:00 alm. to 5:00 p.m, Monday through Friday. The transfer station also requires permits from Anoka County, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and the Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance. The Ramsey site is zoned Business Warehouse; the surrounding parcels to the north, west and south are zoned a combination of Business Warehouse and Industrial. The parcels on thc south- side of the Burlington Northern railroad tracks are zoned B-3 Highway Business and are occupied by a lawful non-conforming single family dweI1ing and' mobile home park. On Wednesday, March 5, City Staff and some of the Councilmembers toured a transfer station in Brooklyn Park. That facility is 60,000 square feet in size, which is more than 3 times the size of the facility proposed in Ramsey. The odors inside the building were not objectionable. Because all mixed solid wastes must be off the floor by the end of the day, they are constantly in motion and there doesn't seem to be much opportunity for decomposition and rodent attraction to occur. : 113