MERIDIAN - After a year of hearings and debates, the Meridian City Council took up the final chapter of a proposal to allow a commercial compost facility to operate on a farm south of Interstate 84.
Council members on Tuesday night approved Timber Creek Recycling's application for the operation off of Locust Grove Road, between East Lake Hazel and East Columbia roads.
The farm has operated a recycling company that had been turning wood scrap into livestock bedding, among other agriculture products, and wants to expand to commercial compost recycling.
Timber Creek Recycling manager Mike Murgoitio previously told KTVB he wants to work with the city to provide a similar composting service to what Boise currently has.
Neighbors have argued it would put an industrial compost factory in an area zoned for residential and would lower property value due to odor and noise.
Josh Leonard, an attorney for a consortium of concern neighbors, tells KTVB the fight isn’t over, and that they plan to submit a request for reconsideration to the city.
If that request is denied, Leonard says the group will file a petition for judicial review by the fourth district court in Ada County.