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MINUTES OF THE <br />ORONO PLANNING COADUSSION MEETING <br />Monday, March 20,2017 <br />6:30 o'clock p.m. <br />Leskinen asked if MN/DOT ran a similar type operation for the new Highway 12 project. <br />Gaffron indicated it was a staging area for materials and equipment but to his knowledge they did not <br />have a recycling operation. Gaffron stated vehicles were parked there now and then and there was a <br />construction office located there. Gaff-ron stated that site was handled by NW/DOT and the City had <br />limited say in it. Gaff:ron indicated he does not recall any conditional use permits being requested. <br />Lemke asked if there would be storage of trucks and equipment as well as the crushing equipment. <br />Fretharn indicated there would be. Fretham stated it is likely the crushing machine will be run less than <br />200 hours, which is basically two and a half weeks out of a year. Fretharn stated the machine might run <br />for a few days and then not for a while and that they will not be running a full-blown crushing operation <br />all summer long. <br />Chair Thiesse opened the public hearing at 7:53 p.m. <br />Allan Engleman, 315 Old Crystal Bay Road, stated it sounds like there will be a recycling operation on <br />the site and that the City does not need someone hauling stuff from Brooklyn Park or Wayzata in there. <br />Engleman questioned what will happen when they are done and the pile is still standing there. Engleman <br />commented it looks to him to be a business and that the City does not need that here. Engleman stated he <br />does not know if the borings showed any contaminated material from the bypass project. <br />Gaffron stated the boring logs primarily identified materials within the landfill and they attempted to <br />determine the boundary between the landfill and high land. Gaff-ron stated he has not seen borings from <br />in town but that any contaminated material would need to be hauled to different sites. <br />Thiesse stated he did see the soil borings from downtown out to Birch's and they were all good. <br />Engleman commented it looks to him like there will be a business operation over there and that they will <br />be taking in other cities' material from all over. <br />Chair Thiesse closed the public hearing at 7:55 p.m. <br />Page 24 of 64 <br />