Kearney, Neb.-Aurora Cooperative officials believe they’re about to get city approval for rezoning three residential lots with existing homes adjacent to their Kearney facility, which may sometime in the future become the location of three one-million gallon liquid fertilizer storage tanks. “We don’t know how soon that would happen,” Don Engel, Aurora sales and service coordinator, told Green Markets. “Maybe it won’t even be this year.” Engel explained that the tanks are the “general purpose” for the property adjacent to the plant that Aurora has been trying to purchase for three years and only recently got the owners to agree at the same time. And since the location is within two miles of the city it requires zoning commission approval, which Engel expected would be obtained right away. The request before the Kearney Planning Commission includes rezoning two acres from agricultural to general industrial on property about five miles east of Kearney on the south side of Highway 30. The location is near a railroad stop. Aurora Cooperative is a leading grain marketer and agricultural supplier in central Nebraska and northern Kansas.
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