02-02-19-Ordinance-Specific Use Permit Smelter Refinery or Chemical Plant for property North 1st Street-02/04/2019ORDINANCE # 02-02-19
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANGER, DENTON
COUNTY, TEXAS, AMENDING THE COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE AND
THE OFFICIAL ZONING MAP ESTABLISHED THROUGH CHAPTER 14 "PLANNING
AND ZONING" OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES, EXHIBIT A "ZONING ORDINANCE
OF THE CITY OF SANGER, TEXAS", AND SECTION 4 "ZONING DISTRICT MAP", TO
GRANT A SPECIFIC USE PERMIT (SUP) TO ALLOW A SMELTER REFINERY OR
CHEMICAL PLANT USE WITH CONDITIONS AT APPROXIMATELY 2.19 ACRES OF
LAND ZONED AS 1-2 "HEAVY INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT'; PROVIDING FOR THE
REPEAL OF ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT; PROVIDING FOR A SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR A PENALTY OF FINE IN ACCORDANCE WITH
SECTION 1.109 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCE FOR VIOLATIONS; AND
PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, all Requests for A Specific Use Permit (SUP) were duly filed with the City
of Sanger, Texas, concerning the hereinafter described properties;
WHEREAS, due notice of hearings were made in the time and manner prescribed by law
and the Planning and Zoning Commission of the City of Sanger, Texas, duly covered and
conducted public hearing for the purpose of assessing a request for a Specific Use Permit (SUP)
on the hereinafter described properties located in the City of Sanger, Texas;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SANGER, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That a Specific Use Permit (SUP) to allow a Smelter, Refinery, or Chemical
Plant use is hereby granted with the following conditions:
a) SUP is limited to business use that recycles used cooking oils into feedstock and produces
biodiesel, as elaborated in Exhibit A.
b) No other Smelter, Refinery, or Chemical Plant use would be permitted at the site other than
what is defined in Exhibit A.
c) All applicable federal, state, and local regulations will be met, and violation of any
regulation will revoke the SUP.
d) Approval of this SUP does not commit the City of Sanger to create a Municipal Setting
Designation (MSD).
e) Number and route of trucks operating at the site will be determined by the City of Sanger
upon completion of construction and issuance of building permit.
This is an approximately 2.19-acre site, described in the R. Beebe Survey, Abstract # 29, Tract
189A attached as Exhibit B, generally located south-east of the intersection of East Bolivar Street
and North Is` Street.
SECTION 2. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are, to the extent
of such conflict, hereby repealed.
SECTION 3. It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council that the sections,
paragraphs, sentences, clauses, phrases and words of this Ordinance are severable and, if any
word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, or section of this Ordinance shall be declared
unconstitutional by the valid judgment or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, such
unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the remaining portions of this Ordinance, since the same
would have been enacted by the City Council without the incorporation in this Ordinance of any
such unconstitutional word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, or section.
SECTION 4. Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of
this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in accordance
with the general penalty provision found in The Code of Ordinances, Section 1.109 General
Penalty for Violations of Code.
SECTION 5. This ordinance will take effect immediately from and after its passage and
the publication of the caption, as the law and Charter in such cases provide.
DULY PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of
Sanger, Texas, on this � day of �J/9
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APPROVED:
Thomas E. Muir, Mayor
ATTEST:
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Cheryl Pr' , City Secretary
EXHIBIT A
The following uses are included in the process of recycling used cooking oils into feedstock and
produces biodiesel:
1. Biodiesel / Biofuels Production.
2. Biodiesel, biodiesel blends, and byproducts wholesale and retail sales.
3. Methanol/Ethanol recovery, recycling, processing, storage. Methanol and alternative
Ethanol are key ingredients in the production of biodiesel. The process required 20% by
volume of Methanol be used in production of biodiesel and byproduct Glycerin. The
biodiesel only absorbs 12%. The excess Methanol must be run through a Methanol
recovery process. The new Methanol produced is stored and used again in the process.
4. Glycerin processing and blending.
5. Grease / oil collecting and recycling. The grease is related to kitchen grease, fats, oils,
and lipids; essentially used fryer oils. This is one of the core part of the business, to recycle
kitchen grease and turn it into biodiesel.
6. Food and water digester processing.
7. Fertilizer production as a byproduct. Waste water produced in the process is processed
through a digester that produces fertilizer and methane as a byproduct. The methane
produced is reused in the process to power a generator and heat is extracted from the
generator.
8. Methane extraction from byproducts. The collected grease often comes with up to 25%
water and food solids as well as any water used in equipment wash down process. All of
this water and food is captured and treated in a digester. The digester produces methane
and fertilizer as its byproducts.
9. Process heat production from byproducts.
10. Container and equipment repair, refurbishing, fabrication & sales. This is a core part
of the business of grease collecting from restaurants. Clients use containers fabricated,
refurbished/repaired at the facility. These containers are sometimes sold to the clients but
mostly these containers are loaned to the clients.
11. Trucking fleet operations to include possible rail -road car operations.
12. Light and heavy vehicle and equipment repair and maintenance.
13. Tanker loading and off-loading.
14. Research and development of renewable energy solutions. This includes but is not
limited to developing prototype systems that can be used in lab and small scale production
testing to make renewable clean energy / fuels from other feedstock. An example would be
looking at algae as feedstock to produce biodiesel. The hardware and software needed for
this process may require years of testing and redesign before a viable solution is found.
15. Software and electronics hardware research, development and fabrication. This
includes developing software and hardware solutions as one of the competitive advantages
of the business is technology. This technology is used to solve problems for clients. A
number of "Internet of Things" (IoT) devices developed sit at client's location and transmit
the container volume back to the facility. Another vacuum wand system allows a client to
empty a fryer without having to haul a heavy bucket to a container.
16. General Business management support services.
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