Transmitted herewith is a request to set the date of public hearing as October 18, 2021 for a request by Northland Products Company to rezone 5.19 acres from “M-1” Light Industrial District to “M-1,C-Z” Conditional Zoning District to allow for compactors and drum washing system in relation to a petroleum operation, located at 2830 Geraldine Road.

The applicant recently purchased the building and they plan to have operations there that compact plastic containers, which mostly consist of five gallon pails, and a washing system to clean drums in relation to a petroleum products company.  The “M-2” Heavy Industrial District allows refining or wholesale storage of petroleum or petroleum products or gasoline but none of those activities will be taking place at this location.  Due to this proposed use being related to a petroleum products business, which are not permitted in the “M-1”, the request for Conditional Zoning is being proposed to allow this proposed, less intensive use in the “M-1”.  The drums that will be cleaned there will have remnants of some petroleum products and antifreeze in them and the applicant indicated that the equipment used to clean captures those products and they are not released into the sanitary sewer system.  There will be three employees at the site and this use requires one parking space for each two employees on the maximum work shift, therefore two parking stalls are required.  There are 18 parking stalls in the parking lot on the west side of the property in front of the building.         

At the September 14, 2021 Planning and Zoning Commission, the commission unanimously recommended approval of the rezoning. 

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Lots 7, 8 and 9 of South Port 2nd Addition, Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa.