Agenda - Council - 03/14/1989 - Closed Executive Session and Regular Meeting

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// CASE # 1 REQUEST FOR A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT TO OPERATE A WASTE TIRE PROCESSING/MANUFACTURING FACILITY ON INDUSTRIALLY ZONED PROPERTY; CASE OF WASTE MANAGEMENT OF MINNESOTA, INC. By: Merland Otto and Sylvia Frolik Background: Waste Management of Minnesota, Inc. has purchased a portable tire shredder which they are intending to use at the Anoka Regional Sanitary Landfill for the processing of tires. It is the position of Mr. Miller of Waste Management of Minnesota, Inc., that waste tire recycling is really a manufacturing operation which is a permitted use in the I-1 Industrial zone. Mr. Hartley and Mr. Goodrich have reviewed the matter and agree that the City Code does not permit waste tire recycling facilities in industrially zoned areas of Ramsey, nor does the existing conditional use permit held by WMMI. On February 22, 1989, WMMI did apply for a conditional use permit. The tire processing facility is proposed to be located east of the active filling operations at the Anoka Regional Sanitary Landfill. The waste tires are proposed to be stored on the ground adjacent to the shredder; no more than 70,000 tires will be stored on-site at any time. The facility would be open to the public as well as commercial haulers. The tire shredder has a capacity to shred 1,200 car tires or 300 truck tires per hour. The tire chips (2"x2") would be temporarily stored or directly loaded into 20-ton capacity trucks. It is estimated that three 20-ton truckloads per day will transport the shredded materials from the site. It is also noted that the shredder is portable and will be transported to various fire dump sites in the State to shred tire stock piles; it is estimated that the shredder will be in operation at the Anoka Sna.itary Landfill one week out of ever), 6. A permit application for operation of the proposed waste tire processing facility has also been submitted to the Anoka County Environmental Health Department and MPCA. MPCA has approved the application on a provisional status. The provisional status does not release WS.flViI from any liability, penalty or duty imposed by State, Federal or local ordinances. MPCA has indicated that the processing facility permit for the Anoka Landf'fll Tire Processing Facility will not be issued until all local ordinances have been met or a schedule of compliance can be established. The following items are enclosed for your information: a) Application b) WMI~,tI's application to Anoka Count), Environmental Health Department for a Waste Tire Processing Facility License dated November 16, 1988. c) Wb,,LMI's application to Minnesota Pollution Control Agency for a Waste Tire Facility Permit dated November 16, 1988. d) Minnesota Pollution Control Agency response to WMMI's application for a Waste Tire Facility Permit dated December 16, 1988. e) Anoka County draft license conditions relating to Waste Management's vertical expansion and waste tire processing applications. f) Anoka Count), draft License conditions g) Memo from Ramsey Fire Chief Bruce Hoeke dated March 1, 1989. h) Letter from Meu-opolitan Mosquito Control District dated March 1, 1989. i) Letter from City Administrator I--Iartley to Anoka Count'), Environmental Sen, ices dated March 7, 1989. j) Proposed findings of fact. k) Proposed conditional use permit.