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1 APPROVED 9/2/2008 <br /> 2 <br /> 3 MINUTES <br /> 4 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> 5 TRANSFER STATION SITING WORK SESSION <br /> 6 June 16, 2008 <br /> 7 7:30 p.m. <br /> 8 <br /> 9 The Orange County Board of Commissioners met for a Transfer Station Siting Work <br /> 10 Session on Monday, June 16, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. at the Southern Human Services Center in <br /> 11 Chapel Hill, N.C. <br /> 12 <br /> 13 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Barry Jacobs and Commissioners Moses <br /> 14 Carey, Jr., Valerie P. Foushee, Alice M. Gordon, and Mike Nelson <br /> 15 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: <br /> 16 COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: Geof Gledhill <br /> 17 COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Laura Blackmon, Assistant County <br /> 18 Manager Gwen Harvey and Willie Best, and Clerk to the Board Donna Baker (All other staff <br /> 19 members will be identified appropriately below) <br /> 20 <br /> 21 NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE IN THE PERMANENT <br /> 22 AGENDA FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE. <br /> 23 <br /> 24 Chair Jacobs pointed out the items at the County Commissioners' places—the adopted <br /> 25 exclusionary criteria; comments from a citizen, Tracy Kuhlman, regarding items on the agenda <br /> 26 (pink); and Commissioner Gordon distributed two hand outs: one was for Transfer Station <br /> 27 Siting Criteria for Technical Criteria and one was Transfer Station Siting Criteria for Community <br /> 28 Specific Criteria. Commissioner Gordon's hand outs are given below. <br /> 29 <br /> 30 Transfer Station Siting Criteria for Technical Criteria <br /> 31 <br /> 32 Technical Criteria <br /> 33 (Note criteria that are related to each other) Weight Proposed Change <br /> 34 <br /> 35 1. Central Location to Collection Routes 10 <br /> 36 <br /> 37 2. Access to Major Transportation Routes 10 <br /> 38 <br /> 39 3. Parcel Size and Availability 10 <br /> 40 (overall site size -#3, 6, 7) <br /> 41 4. Sufficient Space for On-site Roadways, 5 <br /> 42 Queuing, and Parking <br /> 43 (sufficient site size -#4, 8) <br /> 44 5. Truck and Traffic Compatibility 10 For the safety of bicyclists, include <br /> 45 the priority bicycle routes in the <br /> 46 technical criteria, as <br /> 47 recommended <br /> 48 by the OUTBoard. The plan for <br /> 49 Priority Bicycle Transportation <br /> 50 Routes <br /> 51 was adopted by the BOCC, and it <br /> 1 <br />