Plan for Recycling Center Dropped
An Oxnard businessman has withdrawn his application to operate a sprawling recycling center at the end of a rural roadway near Moorpark, county officials said Wednesday.
Neighbors along Waters Road cheered the decision by Sal Plascencia, who is now applying to open the center at the abandoned Egg City farm off Grimes Canyon Road.
“Hallelujah!” cried Ken Loe, a pharmacist who has lived in the remote Waters Road area for more than 10 years. “We were talking about 70 or 80 trucks a day.
“This is horse country,” he said. “We have a lot of people walking, riding and using their bikes. We would have had fatalities.”
County planner Becky Linder said Wednesday that Plascencia, the owner of M Maintenance Construction, had pulled his application for the Waters Road center.
“They have formally submitted a letter to the Planning Division withdrawing their application for a conditional use permit to operate the recycling facility,” Linder said.
Planners are now reviewing the application to open the facility at the recently abandoned Egg City chicken farm.
Plascencia wants to use the concrete pads at the former egg farm to bundle tons of cardboard and other recyclable products for transport to alternate facilities.
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