
{"id":3643,"date":"2008-10-16T07:42:40","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T15:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=3643"},"modified":"2008-10-16T08:53:29","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T16:53:29","slug":"commissioners-approve-new-transfer-site-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/10\/16\/commissioners-approve-new-transfer-site-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Commissioners approve new transfer site rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Catherine Rierson<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Orange County Board of Commissioners received a revised list of prospective sites for the county\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s solid-waste transfer station at a work session Tuesday night.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe new list, which shifted the Rogers-Eubanks Road community from fourth to eighth on the list, should be whittled down even further at the board\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s meeting next Tuesday.<br \/>\nThe new top four sites are on a one-mile stretch of N.C. 54 near Orange Grove Road. The rankings were managed according to community-specific criteria, such as environmental-justice concerns and municipal logistics, established by Olver Inc., the consultants the county hired last November. The new criteria came after the initial ones were slopped, because the board wanted the process to be more objective, chairman Barry Jacobs said.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner Mike Nelson said five sites would be too many to name at next week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work session, but said the board wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ready to make a decision on just one either.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I tend to want to minimize the amount of people we alarm with naming new sites, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d prefer to select a lower number,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Commissioner Moses Carey Jr. said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Everyone is affected by this. We all throw our trash away but not always in our own back yard.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nSarah Timmel, a disgruntled resident of Cornwallis Hills, a subdivision that rests close to the border of one of the two Hillsborough sites, agreed. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is right beside our neighborhood,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all just beautiful forest, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t care because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s near a highway. Our property value will just go straight down.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>No public comments were made at the work session, though the commissioners did unanimously agree that public hearings should be held after every instance in which the list of sites is thinned down, at minimum. <\/p>\n<p>The board also objected to Olver Inc. responding to communities\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 concerns in the upcoming public participation phase.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153People are not going to feel like they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re being heard,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Carey said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153People need to be able to connect to us directly \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and on both sides of the county.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The board hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t changed the deadline of Nov. 18 for its final decision. However, it did express concern about finishing before the new board is elected on Nov. 4, which would give the voting responsibility to new commissioners. The board said that it wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t, however, rush through the process, because it was more important to make the right decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Catherine Rierson Staff Writer The Orange County Board of Commissioners received a revised list of prospective sites for the county\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s solid-waste transfer station at a work session Tuesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643","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=3643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}