By Taylor Sisk
Staff Writer
The Orange County Board of County Commissioners is holding a work session tonight (Thursday) with county staff and representatives of Carrboro, Chapel Hill and Hillsborough to discuss plans for a solid waste transfer station.
The agenda calls for discussion of the proposed site off N.C. 54 in the White Cross community, but it is also expected that commissioners will hear from Chapel Hill Mayor Kevin Foy regarding his suggestion last week of a Chapel Hill-owned location on Millhouse Road north of the new Town Operations Center as a possible alternative to the N.C. 54 site.
Foy’s suggestion has upset residents of the Rogers-Eubanks neighborhood, who say Millhouse Road lies within that historically black community, which has been home to the county landfill for 37 years. With Eubanks Road having been removed from consideration as a potential site, some residents, including members of the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association (RENA), were angered by the Millhouse Road proposal.
On Friday, Foy took a group of residents on a tour of the site, after which RENA sent an open letter to Chapel Hill and county officials stating that residents had been polled and were “adamantly against†a transfer station on Millhouse Road or anywhere else in the Rogers-Eubanks vicinity.
The meeting will be at 7 p.m. at the Southern Human Services Center on Homestead Road.