Shamrock Foods seeks Commerce City approval for 14 food-oil tanks at Ivy Street site
The Planning Commission is scheduled to consider a zoning change and conditional-use permit for about 420,000 gallons of above-ground food-oil storage at 5199 Ivy St.
Shamrock Foods is asking Commerce City to rezone its 5199 Ivy Street property for heavier industrial use and approve a permit for 14 above-ground food-oil tanks holding about 420,000 gallons in total.
The Planning Commission is scheduled to hear the requests at 6:15 p.m. Aug. 4. The rezoning request would change the property from I-2, or medium-intensity industrial, to I-3, heavy-intensity industrial. A related conditional-use permit would allow above-ground storage of more than 48,000 gallons of food oil; that permit depends on the zoning change.
A city report says Shamrock cited increased operational demand and plans to keep food manufacturing at the site. The tanks would be placed west of the property, between a railroad spur and the industrial building. The report says the proposal includes no additional development and would not create traffic impacts on East 52nd Avenue or Ivy Street. That is a prospective conclusion about the proposal, not a record of post-approval operations.
City staff said the conditional-use criteria were met, including access to utilities, roads, drainage and other services, and that the request fits the I-270 Industrial District character-area designation. The records reviewed for this advance story did not include a traffic study, detailed circulation plan, full site-plan attachment or specific fire, environmental or engineering comments and final conditions for the tanks.
Shamrock’s Colorado location page identifies 5199 Ivy Street as its Commerce City branch, including test kitchens, customer service, administrative and sales offices. The available land-use reports provide no further site-specific explanation from the company beyond the need to support increased operational demand.
The Aug. 4 commission meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. in Council Chambers, 7887 E. 60th Ave., with hybrid participation. The agenda says residents may testify in person or through Zoom. Written comments and speaker registration were due by noon that day. The commission’s hearing will be a review of the requests, not a completed approval.