Comment on the Model Zoning Template
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Finding land for compost facilities is not easy – and finding properly zoned land for compost facilities is even tougher.
USCC’s Legislative & Environmental Affairs Committee, staff and Target Organics surveys have identified lack of zoning for compost facilities as one of the BIGGEST impediments to starting a compost facility.
The LEAC’s Model Zoning Task Force, led by Marcus Zbinden, a member and award-winning regulator from Carver County, MN, has spent the past year focusing on zoning ordinances from around the country in the areas of commercial, on-farm and community-scale composting and pulled the best and most common issues and definitions from all of them for our draft template. "Our aim was to look forward to where our industry is headed, and to provide a template that cities and counties can modify within their own local community’s economic and political climate,” said Zbinden. Other Task Force members who have worked on the template over the past year have been Brian Freeman, Robinson & Cole, Jorge Montezuma, Atlas Organics, Angel Arroyo-Rodriguez, Ohio EPA, Eileen Banyra, Community Compost Company, Neil Edgar, Edgar & Associates.
USCC is reaching out to members and a number of stakeholders through November 30, and asks you to use the Comment Document to "put yourself in the shoes” of a compost facility operator who wants to expand or start a new facility to see if the model zoning template covers the issues that arise.
Thank you for your help with this important initiative!
