Busy night for Lafayette City Council
In play: Confusion cleared up over new trash transfer land. Rail corridor housing development gets green light. Senior housing project takes another step in southern Lafayette. And more
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BUSY NIGHT FOR LAFAYETTE CITY COUNCIL
Plenty to talk about out of Tuesday night’s loaded Lafayette City Council agenda. No fireworks, necessarily. But plenty of stuff. Let’s start with …
REZONE OK’D FOR RELOCATED TRASH TRANSFER SITE: The second time was a charm for a proposal to rezone 37.5 acres along Indiana 38 for industrial use, setting it up for part of a trash transfer station expected to replace one currently accepting Greater Lafayette trash on North Ninth Street, just north of Lafayette.
In August, confusion set in when engineers carrying the request didn’t make it clear about the scope of the land use and who was behind it – especially when they said the property was intended for a trash transfer operation. The thing was: The city already had been in negotiations with another firm on a trash transfer station in the same area.
The city council tabled the request that night until it could get things sorted out.
On Tuesday, Mayor Tony Roswarski told council members that the rezoning request from Innovative Engineering and Consulting, a Whitestown firm, was the same as one the city, West Lafayette and Tippecanoe county officials had been working on with Bestway Disposal for the past year.
“This is the project we all agreed to,” Roswarski said.
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