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Residents ask commissioners to drop Eubanks Road site

Posted on February 7, 2008February 11, 2008 by Staff

With supporters, some carrying signs, lining the back wall of the room, members of the Rogers-Eubanks roads community urged the Board of County Commissioners at Tuesday night’s commission meeting to remove Eubanks Road from consideration as the site of a proposed solid-waste transfer station.

But the commissioners said that because of an administrative complaint filed by members of the community with the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Civil Rights they would take no action on the request at this time. The complaint was filed against the board of commissioners and a number of other local and state administrative bodies.

“This is not a commissioners’ slow-me-down tactic,” said Commissioner Barry Jacobs. “There is a civil rights complaint that has been filed and as long as it’s there, we’re not going to discuss, in public, our position.”

Jacobs said that county attorney Geoff Gledhill had advised the board not to discuss the matter. “[O]n the advice of our attorney, until such time as there’s either a remedy or a change or a difference in his recommendations to us, we’re just going to listen and continue with our discussions,” he said.

Eubanks Road has been the site of the Orange County Landfill for more than 35 years and the community-based Coalition to End Environmental Racism (CEER) has argued that the neighborhood has carried an undue burden on behalf of the greater community and that Eubanks Road should be taken out of consideration as a potential transfer station site under federally established principles of environmental justice. The administrative complaint filed with the federal government expresses those concerns.

Rev. Robert Campbell, a longtime community leader, told the commissioners that the complaint seeks remedies under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

At Tuesday’s commission meeting, CEER presented to the commissioners a petition with 450 signatures requesting that Eubanks Road be removed from consideration.

—Staff Reports

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