Fertile Ground Cooperative PUD-2160 Composting Facility

At a glance

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  • What: PUD-2160, a rezoning of 7203 Northeast 36th Street from R1 to a planned unit development for an agricultural and organics composting facility with urban agriculture, proposed by Fertile Ground Cooperative.
  • Where it stands: recommended for approval to City Council on October 22, unanimously.

Key points

  • The applicant's attorney and the cooperative's president said it is a social enterprise that already runs a composting site south of Lower Scissortail Park without odor complaints, and aims to extend landfill life and create jobs and sales tax.
  • Commissioner Harrison (ward commissioner) said the ward's councilmember and the city's sustainability office support the project. No one signed up to speak.

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