Planning and Zoning voted recently to approve the special permit application of Turning Earth, an organics recycling company partnering with Covanta Energy to build a new, $20 million state-of-the-art facility in Southington. The facility, which will be located in an industrial zone at 111 Spring Street, will be the first integrated high solids anaerobic digestion and in-vessel composting facility in the northeast where it will recycle municipal and commercial and organic waste streams from over a dozen communities in central Connecticut. During a meeting last Tuesday, the commission voted 6 to 1 in favor of the application for the construction of multiple buildings to facilitate the development and operations of the facility. “I’m very happy this is coming to Southington,” said Planning and Zoning Chairman Mike DelSanto, who voted in favor of the application. “This is the stuff that puts Southington on the map…we’re open for business, and this is the business that we want.” Last month, the Planning and Zoning Commission voted unanimously to table Turning Earth’s special permit application after some residents expressed concern for the proposal during a public hearing, citing traffic as an issue. Geoffrey Fitzgerald, a professional engineer of BL Companies who represented Turning Earth, [...]
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