Plans for a confined animal feeding operation in rural Pulaski County remain up in the air, but a decision will be made one way or another by the end of this summer.
The commissioners have deferred action on rezoning the property, since they want to have all three commissioners present. However, it’s not entirely clear when that will happen. Commissioner Bud Krohn Jr. has been absent since February.
During last week’s meeting, Community Development Commission Executive Director Nathan Origer told the commissioners they have a limited amount of time to act on the advisory plan commission’s recommendation. “If the commissioners do not take action, then whatever the recommendation of the plan commission is, goes,” he explains. “So if the plan commission had sent it to you with a down vote, it would automatically be shot down. They sent it to you with an up vote, so if you don’t act one way or the other, it automatically goes into effect.”
Origer says the last regular meeting in which the commissioners can make a decision will be on August 21. Otherwise, the land would automatically be rezoned from General Agriculture to Intensive Agriculture, as recommended by the plan commission.
The rezoning would pave the way for four wean-to-finish pig production buildings near county roads 300 South and 700 West.
