By Dave Baumeister
County Correspondent
SIOUX FALLS – On Tuesday, Oct. 24, the Minnehaha County Commission managed to put an end to its seven-month long consideration of a conditional use permit for Mueller Pallets with a 3-1 vote granting the CUP.
Last week, the commission chamber was “packed” with people against the new location of the tree-grinding operation at the intersection of 267th St. and 463rd Ave., one mile west of the Sioux Falls Municipal Landfill.
At that time the vote to approve deadlocked at 2-2, with Commission Chair Jean Bender’s absence, and the matter had to be brought up again this week, even though she was still gone, and the commission was again operating with four people.
On Oct. 17, Commissioners Joe Kippley and Gerald Beninga voted for granting the permit, and Commissioners Jen Bleyenberg and Dean Karsky voted against.
While three of the votes stayed the same as at that meeting, Karsky switched to vote “aye” after an amendment he proposed was adopted.
According to what was said, CUPs for business operations come up for renewal every 10 years, but Karsky asked for this CUP to have a five-year sunset clause, so the commission could review operations at that time in case of any problems.
That amendment was adopted unanimously.
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