he Sumner county Planning Commission Wednesday turned down a company’s conditional use permit to build a bio-fuel plant in north Sumner County and a zoning-change request for the land where it planned construction.
Sumner Newscow reports the planning commission voted 7-1 to deny VNA Corporation a conditional-use permit for the project and voted 6-1 to deny the rezoning request to rezone about 100 acres west of the Ninnescah River from rural to heavy industrial.
The opposition does not put a fork in the company’s plan for its plant.
The Sumner County Commission does have the power to overturn the planning commission’s request at its Nov. 26 meeting.
At a meeting in late September, a crowd gathered into a room as the planning and zoning committee came together to discuss the fate of the controversial bio-fuel plant.
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