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Council rejects waste-site plan for Millhouse Road

Posted on October 2, 2009October 3, 2009 by Staff

By Kirk Ross, Staff Writer

The Chapel Hill Town Council put an end to months of speculation about whether the town might provide a site it owns on Millhouse Road for a new waste transfer station.

At its meeting Monday night at Town Hall, the council voted 5-2 to reject a plan to look at the cost and feasibility of the site.

Council members Matt Czajkowski and Mark Kleinschmidt, both running for mayor, said they wanted to see the matter put to rest. In the end, Mayor Kevin Foy, who first proposed the idea, and council member Sally Greene voted for the plan. Greene said she did so in support of Foy’s effort to get a better handle on the difference in cost to the town between the Millhouse site and one proposed by the county off N.C. 54 near Orange Grove Road.

Council member Laurin Easthom said she was strongly opposed to the site. “This is not something I want to do,” she said during the deliberations. “It’s just over for me, in my mind.”

After learning of the possible use of the site, the Orange County Board of Commissioners had asked for the town to review Foy’s offer and provide a sense of whether the site would be acceptable politically.

In other action, the council authorized its attorney and the town manager to continue to negotiate for a lease of a portion of the Wallace Parking Deck for Kidzu. The nonprofit children’s museum wants to build a new facility on part of the deck.

That effort met with some opposition from residents who see the deck as a public park. But after reviewing more closely the Kidzu’s plans, Erik Ose, one of the leaders of a petition drive against the proposed lease, said he would now support it. The configuration the town and Kidzu are planning for would keep public the southwestern side of the deck, including an amphitheatre where the Downtown Partnership has been sponsoring concerts and films.

In other action, the council reviewed plans for completing an odor-elimination project at the Orange Water and Sewer Authority’s Mason Farm wastewater treatment plant. OWASA officials said they hope to have the $11.5 million project completed by 2014.

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