
{"id":1439,"date":"2007-12-13T07:27:17","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T15:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2007\/12\/13\/study-encourages-shared-food-processing-facility\/"},"modified":"2007-12-13T07:28:05","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T15:28:05","slug":"study-encourages-shared-food-processing-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2007\/12\/13\/study-encourages-shared-food-processing-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Study encourages shared food-processing facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em> Commissioners to consider facility for use by individuals, businesses<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By Susan Dickson<\/strong><br \/>\nStaff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A recently completed feasibility study indicated a strong justification for a shared-use food-processing facility in Orange County, according to a report presented to the Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The three-month study included surveys of potential users, a site evaluation and proposed governance of the center. The center would allow individuals and businesses to produce value-added goods \u00e2\u20ac\u201d such as jellies, pickles or tamales \u00e2\u20ac\u201d in a licensed facility, and would be used by Orange, Alamance, Chatham and Durham counties.<\/p>\n<p>According to Noah Ranells, county agricultural economic development coordinator, the study\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s survey results were stronger in this area than in any other counties that have been surveyed in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is a very, very solid effort,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner Moses Carey said the facility could attract investments from outside of the county, in addition to creating more locally produced foods.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153To have it located in Orange County would be an opportunity for us to practice what we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been preaching for all these years about how far you have to haul the things we eat and trying to minimize that distance,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is an opportunity to do it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner Alice Gordon said she would prefer to consider the facility as part of the county\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s capital improvement plan.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have very much \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 capital money, and we have a lot of needs,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said.<br \/>\nThe board agreed to further consider the facility at a later work session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commissioners to consider facility for use by individuals, businesses By Susan Dickson Staff Writer A recently completed feasibility study indicated a strong justification for a shared-use food-processing facility in Orange County, according to a report presented to the Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday. The three-month study included surveys of potential users, a site evaluation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-land-and-table"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}