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of the SWF district, does not comply with provisions of the City of <br />Elk River Zoning Ordinance and Solid Waste Facilities Ordinance <br />set forth above. <br />24. The City Council further finds that the Landfill has expanded numerous times in <br />the past and has alternative expansion opportunities within the area currently zoned SWF -Solid <br />Waste Facilities Overlay and guided "Landfill" available to it at present. The Landfill has <br />expanded from its origina140 acres of land in 1971 to approximately 168 acres of disposal areas <br />for mixed municipal sold waste and construction and demolition debris. <br />25. Since 2004, the waste capacity of the Landfill has been expanded with approval <br />by the City of a leachate recirculation system which results in faster decomposition of waste and <br />expansion of the capacity of the Landfill to receive waste. The Landfill has also received <br />approvals to expand its gas to electricity facility and to construct new storage buildings and <br />• retain existing buildings previously required to be removed. <br />26. The City Council finds that the Landfill has considerable opportunities to expand <br />the waste capacity of the Landfill and extend the life of the Landfill without destroying the <br />existing buffer zone on the southern edge of the Landfill and the screening which that buffer <br />zone provides to 221st Avenue and surrounding properties. <br />27. The Landfill has approximately nine acres in the northeast portion of its property <br />that could be utilized for Landfill expansion. Development of this area for the deposit of Solid <br />Waste would require consolidation and relocation of existing facilities, and an amendment of the <br />existing CUP and SWFL, but would require no amendments to the Comprehensive Plan <br />designation or zoning of the Landfill property. The City sees no obvious technical issues with <br />development of this area for solid waste disposal and encourages the Landfill to investigate this <br />possibility. The Landfill could also gain another acre of fill area by moving the south boundary <br />10 <br />