Developer Seeks City OK to Stockpile Dirt
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Five-foot-high heaps of dirt could soon appear along one of Moorpark’s busiest roads, if the City Council grants a developer’s request to stockpile soil.
Marketplace Properties, which won city permission last year to build a day-care center and shops at Spring and Tierra Rejada roads, wants to store about 18,000 cubic yards of earth at the site.
The dirt will come from the construction of a county waterworks tank nearby. Plans for the Marketplace commercial center already called for bringing at least 12,000 cubic yards of soil onto the site for grading.
Moorpark’s assistant city engineer has recommended that the council approve the request. But worried that the earth could move if piled too high, he has recommended that the storage heaps be no taller than 5 feet--half the height the Marketplace had requested.
The council will consider the issue at its Wednesday meeting.
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