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f lc �mc 4_ 6 Follow Up From November 17, 2009 Board of County Commissioners Meeting On the Application of Exclusionary Criteria The following paragraphs explain, in part, some of the aspects in question regarding the site selection process brought forward at the earlier meeting. The adopted Exclusionary Criteria includes a list of ten criteria. After the first eight reduced the pool of candidate sites, the two remaining were used to further narrow the field of potential candidate sites. These are described with added notation by staff below. Excerpt from Solid Waste Transfer Station Site Selection Criteria Adopted Exclusionary Criteria Criteria 9. Sites with County Owned Lands or Easements Designated for Preservation County -owned lands acquired for parks and /or nature preserves Lands that have been purchased by the County through the Lands Legacy Program (or other mechanism) for the protection of natural and cultural resources and as future park sites. Site(s) with deed restrictions or with permanent conservation easements will be excluded. Staff Note: This criterion did exclude many County owned sites because many were purchased with Lands Legacy monies. Lands Legacy monies, in most cases, can be reimbursed by other funds. However, an extra iteration of interpretation was not made to ascertain if the future use of a park or conservation could also accommodate other uses of less than 25 acres with adequate buffer adjacencies. There was original draft language that mentioned master - planned lands that were fully accounted (spatially) for specific park or conservation use would be excluded. This draft would have permitted a yet to be master planned County land area to be included for consideration. In application, a master plan of a large County parcel may show how other public uses could be accommodated along with a park. Adopted Exclusionary Criteria Criteria 10. Sites with Less than 25 Acres in Size Unless Transportation Access, Existing Buffers, and Preliminary Transfer Station Layout Demonstrates The Adequacy of a Smaller Site 25 acre single or combination of parcels Staff Note: This criterion excludes less than 25 acre sites unless adequacy of a smaller site can be shown because of unique offsite conditions. Roughly a 9 -10 acre site was the minimum area for the facility and associated site plan aspects (i.e. an area of about 660' square). However, larger than average buffers (landscape or other uses) were suggested and an additional 192' buffer around the original 9 -10 acres would create a 25 acre parcel. On private property one would need the entire 25 acre parcel unless another use, such as an interstate could serve as a buffer. Less than 25 acres would be acceptable if offsite areas (such as additional County or municipal owned lands or interstate, etc.) could accommodate the buffers. CADocuments and Settings\mallison \Local Settings \Temporary Internet Files \OLK108 \The adopted Exclusionary Criteria2 CBenedict GH edit.doc