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a waste management solution for a long-term. Vendors should be employed to handle the <br /> County's needs until an alternate site is selected." <br /> Val Martinez is a parent that has a student at Emerson Waldorf School and he <br /> opposes the possible site selection on Millhouse Road. He said that there seems to be a <br /> process in place without due consideration. <br /> Kathleen Schenley read a prepared statement: <br /> "I ask that you think carefully before considering Mayor Foy's proposal that the Town <br /> of Chapel Hill allow use of part of the Town Operations Center land for a waste transfer <br /> station. To add a new site when the BOCC is so close to a decision, after years of work, will <br /> only slow the process. <br /> Placement of a transfer station on the edge of the town limits is short sighted. Chapel <br /> Hill and Carrboro are full. Where are the new developments happening? Where is the future <br /> garbage going to come from? Look southwest of Hillsborough, look at Buckhorn, look at <br /> Efland. These are growing areas. <br /> I may live a mile from Rogers Road, but I have always considered myself a part of this <br /> community. We have had enough. Keep in mind that we will continue to endure the traffic <br /> and noise from the C&D site and the recycling center. And we may be facing another 8-16 <br /> years of use of the current landfill. <br /> The BOCC has already voted to remove the Eubanks Road area from consideration <br /> for a new site, or even as a contingency site. To propose a site less than 2,500 feet from the <br /> current landfill and say that it is a different site simply because the street address is Millhouse <br /> Road instead of Eubanks is absurd. <br /> To endorse this plan is a betrayal of promises made to our community that we would <br /> not have to endure the County's garbage forever." <br /> Cecil Griffin said that he has lived on Millhouse Road since 1980. He has lived within <br /> one mile of his current residence since 1964. He was a part of the neighborhood resistance <br /> for the first landfill established on Eubanks Road. He was also a part of the neighborhood <br /> resistance to the creation of the new landfill on Duke University/Blackwood property. He said <br /> that they won that battle, in large part, because Duke University leased some of its land to the <br /> federal government so that Orange County could not use it for a landfill. He said that nearly <br /> 20 years ago this area got put on the priority list for the new landfill at the last minute. He said <br /> that the current landfill site was originally chosen for a waste transfer station and the County <br /> Commissioners decided not to burden this area with the County's waste. Some of these <br /> County Commissioners are no longer on the Board. He said that now, at the last minute, this <br /> area is back on the hot seat. He said that it appears that officials are still not willing to impose <br /> upon any other citizens of the County but them. He said that he will admit that the cheapest <br /> site would be the current landfill and it is not in the Historic Rogers Road neighborhood. He <br /> suggested two things that are worth considering if the Chapel Hill Operations site is to be used: <br /> 1) construct an exit ramp and an entrance ramp off of and onto 1-40 for ingress and egress to <br /> the transfer station. This would eliminate any increased traffic in the neighborhood; and 2) <br /> block Millhouse Road on the west side of the railroad track immediately across from the <br /> Chapel Hill Operations center and create a dead end road. He said that he is convinced that <br /> the neighborhood's battles with government dumping on them will continue for as long as he <br /> lives. <br /> Robert Campbell gave a packet of information and said that the information will <br /> establish the connection between with Millhouse Road. He said that although it is based on <br /> lines on maps, the boundaries are not just lines on a map. The social and cultural connection <br /> is what establishes the fellowship that binds communities for generations. He said that even <br />