Special Use Permit PSP 26023

The applicant's representative said ag is the family's principal business, more than 50% of hauling is ag-related, there's no transloading, fueling or on-site truck repair, and they welcome county inspections and compliance monitoring.

Said there are no refrigerated vans or idling on site now, and actual truck trips are only three to five per day, far below the 20 estimated — a very small operation.

Explained major truck repairs happen at a new permitted facility in Traver, not on site, and the family farms about 300 acres.

Attorney for neighboring Elkhorn Dairy argued the Class 1 exemption doesn't fit because the existing truck use is unpermitted, asked for denial, a continuance with an initial study, or a code enforcement referral, and flagged recent photos showing heavy truck repair on site.

An agronomist consulting for Elkhorn Dairy said he drives past monthly and the site 'looks like a chop shop' — trucks torn down to engines-out, waste oil totes and tires visible from the road — and urged commissioners to drive by themselves.