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DANE COUNTY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT STAFF REPORT CUP 1508—City of Sun Prairie Public Hearing Date: 7/28/98 Date of report: 7/23/98 I. BACKGROUND A. Request The City of Sun Prairie is requesting a conditional use permit for a governmental use on 3.5 acres of A-1(ex)zoned land in the Town of Sun Prairie. This permit would allow the City to relocate its resident recycling center to this property from its current location and to operate a yard waste composting facility on the premises. The recycling center would be open to City residents of 1- 4 unit buildings, and would accept yard waste,appliances, scrap metal, automotive tires, waste automotive oil,batteries and residential fluorescent light bulbs. Between April 15 and November 1,the center would operate from 9:00 a.m. until 6:30 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and from 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. on Saturdays. Between November 2 and April 14, Monday, Wednesday and Friday hours would be reduced to between 7:30 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. and between 3:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. Saturday hours would remain unchanged. The recycling center would be closed on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays year- round. The City would staff the facility with an attendant during hours of operation. B. History/Past Actions Under NR 502 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code,the state Department of Natural Resources requires composting facilities to meet siting criteria and performance standards designed to avoid adverse impacts on wetlands, critical habitat, surface or ground waters or air quality. The Solid Waste Management Unit of the DNR's South Central Region approved the proposed location and design of the recycling center on 4/24/98 (see letter from Linda Hanefeld to Larry Herman in petition file). The Department of Natural Resources has approved a solid waste facility operation license(#04053)to the City for the proposed site. That license becomes effective on October 1, 1998 and expires on September 30, 1999. C. Site/Locational Information The proposed site is located at 912 Bird Street in the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of Section 7 in the Town of Sun Prairie. The site is currently owned by the City of Sun Prairie Water and Light Commission, a legally distinct entity from the city government, which currently uses the property as a clean fill disposal site. The Water and Light Commission would lease the recycling center site to the city. The Water and Light Commission had originally purchased the property for an electric substation,but now does not anticipate needing the land for that purpose for at least another ten years. 1