Department of Community Development
Reference: Metro Water Recovery Conditional Use Permit Amendment
To: Mayor Gregory Mills and Members of City Council
Through: Michael P. Martinez, City Manager
Prepared By: Hampton Moore, Planning Technician
Date Prepared: March 18, 2026
PURPOSE
To consider an amendment to the conditional use permit for the Metro Water Recovery Northern Treatment Plant to allow the installation of temporary construction yards (the "Application" or the "Amendment"). The Metro Water Recovery Northern Treatment Plant is located at 51 Baseline Road (the "Property"). The existing Conditional Use Permit was approved via City Council Resolution 2012-132 in order to allow the development of the Property for a water treatment plant (the "Conditional Use Permit") but did not contemplate temporary construction yards to serve the long-term expansion of the Property. The Application would allow for the installation of the temporary construction yards in support of the expansion originally approved by the Conditional Use Permit. The Application would allow the temporary construction yards for a duration not to exceed 10 years. Aidan Travers is the project representative on behalf of the Property owner, Metro Water Recovery (the "Applicant"). City staff collected and analyzed application materials and, after a thorough review, are prepared to present their findings to the City Council at a public hearing.
Per Land Use & Development Code ("LUDC") Table 4-2, the use of a Water and/or Wastewater Treatment Plant is permitted by right in the Public Lands ("PL") zone district. However, at the time of entitlement in 2012, Water and/or Wastewater Treatment Plant was a conditional use in the PL zone district, thus requiring the Conditional Use Permit. As the Property is now governed by the Conditional Use Permit, any changes to the site must be permitted through an amendment to the Conditional Use Permit.
Furthermore, temporary uses are separately governed by LUDC...
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