9/20/13 - An update on Regal Recycling's Lucy Road auto salvage operation was heard by the Howell City Planning Commission this week. Interim Community Development Director Erin Perdu says the operation was illegal when it started up around October of last year because it had not gotten the required permits. Since then, city staff and consultants have been working with Regal Recycling to produce a site plan that is acceptable to the planning commission. Perdu says there are still some outstanding issues with the operation, the most important of which is the surface beneath the cars being stored. City ordinance calls for pavement to reduce groundwater contamination, but Regal Recycing is seeking a variance to allow that surface to be gravel instead. The zoning board of appeals will discuss that issue at its October 3rd meeting. Depending on the outcome of that meeting as well as other site plan issues, such as landscaping, Regal Recycling could be back before the planning commission at its October 18th meeting. (TD)
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