GLENWOOD SPRINGS – — A proposal to locate an asphalt manufacturing plant next to an existing organic farm near the Garfield County Regional Airport southeast of Rifle could test a provision of the county’s land-use code meant to protect agriculture operations.
“The county standards couldn’t be more clear,” Scott Balcomb, the attorney representing Eagle Springs Organic Farm, said during a continued Garfield Board of County Commissioners public hearing Tuesday.
The commissioners are considering a land-use change proposal by Charles Ellsworth of Bedrock Resources LLC to allow for an asphalt batch plant immediately west of the farm.
Balcomb noted that the county code states that any land-use changes next to agricultural operations “shall not adversely affect, or otherwise limit the viability” of an existing ag operation.
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