The Benton County Board of Commissioners will hold a public hearing Tuesday to reconsider its decision approving the expansion of Coffin Butte Landfill. The meeting will begin at 10 a.m. in the Kalapuya Building’s Holmes and Shipley meeting room.
According to the meeting agenda, the board will consider reopening the record to receive a letter from the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality that was issued after commissioners voted to approve the landfill expansion application in November 2024. Planning Division staff has recommended the board accept the new evidence and establish a timeline for the public to submit written testimony regarding the DEQ letter. The agenda states that no public comments will be heard during the hearing.
No vote will be taken Jan. 20 and no decision on the land use application will be made during the hearing. Planning staff is recommending the board continue the hearing to a later date for deliberations and a decision.
Ex parte rules continue to apply to the commissioners’ consideration of the application, preventing them from hearing verbal or written comments outside of the public process for accepting evidence and testimony about Coffin Butte Landfill.
More information is available at bentoncountyor.gov/coffin-butte-landfill.
The board will also hold a public hearing at 11 a.m. on a development code text amendment related to mobile food carts. Comments from the public will be heard at the hearing.
Public comment will be heard at the beginning of the meeting, but comments related to either of the scheduled public hearings will not be allowed at that time.
The Kalapuya Building is located at 4500 SW Research Way in Corvallis.