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6 1 Bob Saliach made reference to the 25-acre parcels and said that, as they look at the 2 criteria, they are saying that the majority of the parcels should be unencumbered by one of 3 these exclusionary criteria. There should be a significant buffer of about 12.5 acres. 4 Commissioner Gordon said that there were citizens at the information session that wanted 5 to go farther than the 3 miles from the major transportation corridors and more than 12 miles 6 from the centroid, along the truck collection routes because they wanted more territory 7 included. Also, people wanted land to be zoned correctly in commercial or industrial areas. 8 'There are not very many commercial or industrial areas in Orange County's planning 9 jurisdiction, and not ail of them are within the 12-mile distance from the centroid of waste 10 generation. 11 Commissioner Nelson asked when the County Commissioners would be getting the public 12 comments and Bob Saliach said that they are not prepared to provide these comments tonight 13 in writing. The comments will be received before the next Transfer Station Siting Work Session. 14 Commissioner Gordon said that the public also said that they wanted maps and figures 15 large enough that they could read them. 16 Chair Jacobs suggested that if people want to comment on the exclusionary criteria, then 17 they can comment at the end of this meeting since nothing is being adopted tonight. 18 A citizen asked how the public would be able to see the comments from the public 19 information session before the next meeting and it was answered that the comments would be 20 available on the website and at the next meeting, where there will be discussion and the 21 opportunity for public comment before the vote. 22 Commissioner Carey said that, in view of the fact that this meeting was advertised as a 23 meeting where the Board would hear at least a summary of comments from the public meeting, 24 and then he thinks that these should be heard and then followed up with the written public 25 documents from those meetings along with the consultant's recommendations in response. He 26 requested a brief summary. 27 Bob Saliach summarized his notes from the public information sessions. The public 28 expressed that some of the criteria were overlapping, particularly the ones dealing with future 29 space and additions. Another aspect was the relative importance of the criteria. Regarding the 30 community-specific criteria, the comments were that there needs to be more ability to assign 31 different levels of importance to those criteria. Three levels of importance were suggested at 32 the sessions- important, very important, and extremely important. Another important factor in 33 the discussions was, once the technical criteria evaluation is completed and candidate sites are 34 selected, this is not carried into the community-specific evaluation. The community-specific 35 starts all over again. There was also significant feedback on environmental justice and how that 36 would be defined. 37 38 3) Adoption of Final Exclusionary Criteria- DEFERRED 39 40 4) HRC Presentation re: Environmental Justice 41 42 Human Relations Commission Chair Bill Hendrickson said that the commission was asked 43 by several members of the community of the Eubanks Road site to become involved in this 44 because of the justice part of the issue. The County Commissioners asked the HRC to come up 45 with a definition of environmental justice. He thanked Shoshannah Smith for all of the hard work 46 on this. 47 Human Rights and Relations Director Shoshannah Smith made this presentation. She 48 introduced members of the HRC. Margot Lester read the definition as shown below, and 49 Shoshannah Smith went over the remainder of the handout. 50 51 To: Orange County Board of Commissioners (BoCC)