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15 <br />Report of Landfill Owners Group/Landfill Neighbors Working Group <br />12. The Working Group recommends that following the closure of the Eubanks Road <br />landfill, portions of the landfill (as allowed by regulations), the Neville tract, and at least <br />50 acres of the Greene tract will be used for recreation facilities. <br />The Landfill Owners Group or its successor will appoint an advisory group to make <br />specific recommendations about the post - closure use of the landfill. This group will <br />convene and make recommendations at least two years prior to the expected closure of <br />the Eubanks Road landfill. The advisory group will be composed of LOG members, <br />residents near the Eubanks Road landfill, and other Orange County citizens. <br />13. The Working Group recommends that no expansion (beyond the existing permitted <br />disposal capacity) of the disposal areas (MSW or Construction and Demolition) of the <br />Eubanks Road landfill occur. <br />The Working Group recommends that the Landfill Owners Group or its successor make <br />no incremental land acquisition at the Eubanks Road Landfill. <br />14. The Working Group recommends that three residents of the area near the Eubanks <br />Road landfill (two in the Rogers Road area, and one in the Millhouse Road area) be <br />identified to receive all mailings and information sent to members of the Landfill Owners <br />Group or its successor agency. This information should be made available to all <br />residents of the area. <br />Any resident who requests to receive mailings of the Landfill Owners Group shall <br />receive such mailings. <br />Epilogue <br />Nothing in this report should be interpreted as indicating that this Working Group favors <br />or acquiesces to any particular site for a future landfill in Orange County. Neighborhood <br />members and LOG members of the Working Group did not agree as to whether a future <br />landfill site was an appropriate topic for discussion for the Working Group. Neighbors <br />insisted that the only adequate compensation for living next to the landfill for 25 years is <br />to have no new landfill sited in the area. <br />The Working Group acknowledges that individual elected officials in 1972 made <br />promises regarding water and sewer service in the area of the Eubanks Road Landfill, <br />and regarding the siting of future landfills, some of which were in writing. None of these <br />promises were officially adopted by any elected body, even though these officials <br />represented these elected bodies. Neighborhood members and some LOG members of <br />the Working Group did not agree as to the legal validity of these promises. <br />The Working Group acknowledges that having a landfill in a neighborhood is an <br />undesirable land use that has a negative impact on the surrounding residents. • Further, the <br />Working Group acknowleges that the current Eubanks Road Landfill has been an <br />