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Diamond Pet Foods looks to add new warehouse
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The proposed Diamond Pet Foods expansion project will be similar to that of the existing warehouse and truck dock facility. - photo by VINCE REMBULAT

It wasn’t too long ago that Diamond Pet Foods in Ripon got the green light to add a fourth production line.

The facility at 942 S. Stockton Ave. is now looking to expand by adding a warehouse equipped with 10 loading docks.

The Ripon Planning Commission will hear a request from Diamond Pet Foods at 6 p.m. Monday in the Council Chambers, 259 N. Wilma Ave., for a major site review to construct a 130,950 square foot building adjacent to the existing production facility and warehouse.

Planning Director Ken Zuidervaart said in his report that access to the site will remain unchanged. The exterior of the proposed building will match that of the existing warehouse on the 131-acre site.

A meeting was held last month with the project review committee and the applicant from Diamond Pet Foods.

Comments and conditions of approval were during the review process and incorporated into the staff report.

The recently added fourth production line called for increased productivity at the Ripon plant, going from 780 tons of kibble per day to 1,040 tons per day — an increase of 260 tons per day — as reported in last April’s Planning Commission.

Diamond Pet Foods opened its Ripon facility about four years ago.