HARLINGEN — A new recycling center may open on North Commerce Street.
Last month, officials removed Nicole Ortiz’s request to better prepare the proposal for the city commission’s consideration.
Tomorrow, commissioners are expected to discuss the proposal to open the recycling center at 1318 N. Commerce St.
The center does not plan to process material such as scrap metal at the facility, Ortiz said.
Instead, the center will serve as a “staging area” used to purchase raw material and temporarily stored before it is transported to Donna for processing, Planning Director Rodrigo Davila said.
The center would transport raw material the day after its purchase, according to the application.
Last month, the city’s Planning and Zoning commission approved Ortiz’s request on conditions including the erection of an 8-foot fence which would surround the 3.4-acre site located in an zoned for light-industrial use.
Officials also required the center to limit its amount of stacked material to 8-foot-high piles.
The city would also require the center maintain a landscaped buffer of densely-planted shrubs along the fence’s perimeter.
The proposed location used to be the site of a recycling center, Davila said.
