RES-1995-055 Resolution (with attachments) Authorizing the Town of Chapel Hill to Utilize the Landfill Reserve Fund to Purchase the Property Known as the Neville Tract

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t - xx October 19, 1995 RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE LANDFILL OWNERS GROUP We recommend that the Landfill owner's Group recommend that the three governing bodies (orange County, Chapel Hill and Carrboro) purchase the Neville tract under the following three conditions: 1. Establish a Monitoring Group to participate in the environmental assessment and Special Use Permit (SUP) application processes. The Monitoring Group should be composed of the citizens who participated in the development of these recommendations (representatives of the Nunn family, representatives of the Northwest Chapel Hill Neighborhood Association) at a minimum, plus other affected citizens as needed, and technical resource people identified by the citizens to assist them in understanding the technical discussions and to supplement the expertise of the SUP applicant's consultant. 2. Generate through the environmental assessment and special use permit application process, with the continuing good faith participation of the citizens and governments who participated in the development of these recommendations, the information and decisions needed to resolve the following 22 issues. The group developing these recommendations believes that it cannot resolve these 22 issues without further technical information and informed discussions based on that information. 3. The above - mentioned environmental assessment will be performed in conjunction with development of the above- mentioned special use permit and will include a description of the proposed actions, identification of their potential environmental impacts, strategies to minimize and mitigate potential impacts on the environment and resources, and consideration of short -- term and long -term benefits and effects of the project. We recognize that it will be easier to reach agreement on some issues than on others, and so have separated these unresolved issues into two groups to facilitate resolution: "Easy Issues for Consensus" 1. Plans for protecting and monitoring water quality in the areas of the Neville and Greene tracts. 2. Should any contamination or problems surface in regard to environmental damage to soil and water, the governments shall provide solutions to those problems (i.e., providing these areas with water a government expense). 3. Plans for creating appropriate buffers that will minimize the