Dive Brief:

• York County Board of Supervisors recently OK’d a recycling plant that will create mulch from wood waste. The Digges Company will own the plant, which will recycle wood from timber cleared from land for development.
• The wood waste recycling facility will be near the planned Whitaker’s Mill neighborhood, but opponents of the plant told supervisors it doesn’t fit with plans for the 222-home development.
• In November, Digges Co. representative Mark Rinaldi differed with the Whitaker’s Mill plan at a supervisors meeting, saying it would hurt his company’s investment in that area and also deter other industrial firms from locating there.

Dive Insight:

Municipal zoning is meant to not be exclusionary, and also meant to encourage wise use of land in a community. While neighbors of an industrial site often disagree with such operations, these operations must be located somewhere, and currently there is a growing need for recycled wood waste.