RIFLE — —A new plan to put a contractor’s yard on a piece of property that Garfield County commissioners denied for an asphalt processing plant earlier this year is still cause for concern for a neighboring organic farmer.
Bedrock Resources has submitted a new proposal to the county seeking a land-use change permit for a contractor’s yard on the approximately 36-acre site just east of the Garfield County Regional Airport.
In addition to storage of machinery and office space, the request includes a variety of “accessory uses.” Among them are storage of soil, landscaping and asphalt materials, crushing activity and a recycling/processing facility for those same materials.
“What they are proposing to do now does not meet the definition of the agricultural zoning, and would have a dramatic affect on the viability of our farm,” said Ken Sack, who owns and operates the adjacent Eagle Springs Organic farm.
In late February, county commissioners rejected a plan by Bedrock to relocate an existing asphalt plant from an area south of Silt to the property it had purchased just west of the organic farm.
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