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DRAFT 6 1 Commissioner-Foushee asked for a ballpark figure and Bob Sallach said that the minimal 2 area for just the transfer station could be 10-15 acres at the minimum. 3 Chair Jacobs said that Commissioner Nelson is an expert on the energy efficiency of rail 4 He also.said that the Board is setting aside Figure 9, the sites within the protected overlay, for 5 now, so that it is not too exclusionary. He suggested a bookmark of this, in case we want to 6 come back to this criterion later. 7 Commissioner Nelson asked if there was a way to include rail access in the weighted 8 criteria later on and Bob Sallach said yes. Commissioner Nelson said that you can move one 9 ton of freight 436 miles on one gallon of fuel. He would like to keep this in the technical criteria. 10 Commissioner Gordon made reference to he comment about the centroid generation and 11 said that she noticed that something was missing. Regarding the definition on #3, the second 12 definition should be the 12-mile distance. It just says the "12 distance." 13 14 Another speaker made reference to the 2025 mean center, and said, that it indicates that it 15 includes Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro and asked why it did not include Mebane, since there is 16 a big development coming in at Buckhorn. Craig Benedict said that it includes all of the census 17 tracts in Orange County. The purpose for putting together the information was for the DCHC- 18 MPO area, but it included areas of Mebane that are in Orange County. 19 20 4. Approve Manager's Recommendation to Adopt Exclusionary Criteria, incorporating 21 a~ additional changes to the Preliminary Draft as the BOCC may desire 22 23 A motion was made by Commissioner Nelson, seconded by Commissioner Foushee to 24 adopt the Final Exclusionary Criteria incorporating the changes as stated above. 25 VOTE: Ayes, 4; No, 1 (Commissioner Gordon -She .disagreed because the 12-mile radius 26 from the centroid criterion excludes almost all places in Orange County that have. commercial or 27 industrial zoning instead of residential zoning and therefore excludes most of the places that are 28 most suitable for a transfer station) 29 30 Bob Sallach said that the next step is to review these criteria and incorporate public. 31 comment, and then to finalize weighting factors. 32 Chair Jacobs said that he would be interested in knowing if things come up at the public 33 information meetings related to the technical and community-specific criteria that have not 34 previously been considered. 35 Bob Sallach read some of the technical criteria from. the PowerPoint on page 12. 36 37 - Central location to waste collection routes 38 o Maximize waste collection efficiency -minimize costs 39 o Distance from end of collection route (general guideline) 40 41 Assistant County Manager Gwen Harvey said that this was moving faster this evening 42 than staff expected. She said that there has been minimal discussion, about these technical 43 criteria with the Board of County Commissioners, so they were not prepared to go into the next 44 stages. 45 Chair Jacobs said that if the. public is going to be asked to comment'on something, then it 46 should be made available. 47 Bob Sallach said that he would be presenting this information at the next meeting._ 48 Commissioner Gordon.. made reference to page 33 that showed the presentation •by Karen 49 Lincoln of a letter from the OUTBoard. She said that the letter was signed by "Sam Lasris" and 50 not the "Sheriff." She noted that the OUTBoard asked that, as part of the technical criteria, that 51 roads that were priority bicycle routes be excluded.