Venice, Florida, City Council and a local recycler are nearing an agreement to construct a concrete recycling facility at a site on Gene Green Road, a report by the Sarasota Herald Tribune says. McLeod Recycling Yard and the council recessed a public hearing to work on stipulations offered by Council Member Jeanette Gates that lasted more than four hours.
City staff, McLeod attorney Derin Parks, planner Darenda Marvin and James McLeod, owner of McLeod Recycling, attended the meeting. Another hearing is scheduled for 10 a.m. Nov. 15, the report says.
The stipulations proposed by Gates include yearly neighborhood meetings with residents between January and April, inability to operate in the dark or on weekends, adherence to a preannexation agreement and a berm.
According to the report, Gates originally wanted a 15 to 20-foot high berm. Council Member Kit McKeon suggested a 30-foot berm like one at a separate concrete crushing facility. McLeod wanted to conduct sound tests to prove a 30-foot berm was necessary before coming to an agreement.
Council recessed the hearing, in part, to establish parameters for a sound test to appease residents of the nearby Venetian Golf & River Club. The report says McLeod held a public workshop offering the noise demonstration last winter, but the city wasn’t willing to issue a permit for the test.
McLeod says in the report his office is 1,500 feet away from an ongoing operation and is not affected by noise. The closets Venetian residents are 5,000 feet away from the proposed site.
If approved, the site plan would make a pending circuit court suit filed by McLeod asking a judge to throw out the Vince Planning Commission’s Sept. 25 denial of the site plant redundant. The report says approval would also end a year-long code enforcement dispute McLeod has with the city over operations.
The code enforcement dispute claims McLeod was operating without a permit on Gene Green Road. Marvin says in the report that McLeod has a permit for mobile crushing and when he purchased the Gene Green Road property, he believed he could use the mobile crusher on the site.
City staff, McLeod attorney Derin Parks, planner Darenda Marvin and James McLeod, owner of McLeod Recycling, attended the meeting. Another hearing is scheduled for 10 a.m. Nov. 15, the report says.
The stipulations proposed by Gates include yearly neighborhood meetings with residents between January and April, inability to operate in the dark or on weekends, adherence to a preannexation agreement and a berm.
According to the report, Gates originally wanted a 15 to 20-foot high berm. Council Member Kit McKeon suggested a 30-foot berm like one at a separate concrete crushing facility. McLeod wanted to conduct sound tests to prove a 30-foot berm was necessary before coming to an agreement.
Council recessed the hearing, in part, to establish parameters for a sound test to appease residents of the nearby Venetian Golf & River Club. The report says McLeod held a public workshop offering the noise demonstration last winter, but the city wasn’t willing to issue a permit for the test.
McLeod says in the report his office is 1,500 feet away from an ongoing operation and is not affected by noise. The closets Venetian residents are 5,000 feet away from the proposed site.
If approved, the site plan would make a pending circuit court suit filed by McLeod asking a judge to throw out the Vince Planning Commission’s Sept. 25 denial of the site plant redundant. The report says approval would also end a year-long code enforcement dispute McLeod has with the city over operations.
The code enforcement dispute claims McLeod was operating without a permit on Gene Green Road. Marvin says in the report that McLeod has a permit for mobile crushing and when he purchased the Gene Green Road property, he believed he could use the mobile crusher on the site.
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