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APPROVED 8/2/17 3 attempt. Even though in the past, Planning got together with the Health Department and the Solid Waste Department 107 to investigate these things, even bringing in the state departments to look at oil spills and radiator spills from 108 junkyards and other cases like that. Work in this area has been limited. The Health Department, until a few years 109 ago, did have some funding to do some limited spraying, if asked by a property owner or other members of the 110 public. Even that has fallen apart. There is still a program to do spraying in parks. Michael Harvey is working more 111 directly with Alan Clapp of the Health Department on what we will propose in this area. Planning has also been 112 working to get together a nuisance program for County jurisdiction. The area most recently spoken about was in so-113 called “pseudo-urban areas,” areas in the County that are growing with higher density, growing with economic 114 development, and we may need a standard of higher care to keep things looking good and to attract growth in the 115 right places. Craig went on to say that it’s difficult because you’re not supposed to be arbitrary, but we’re going to try 116 by justifying our urbanized standards that we have in certain growth areas. Michael Harvey and Alan Clapp are 117 working on a memo to the manager that will eventually get to the Commissioners to implement some sort of nuisance 118 program. Planning Staff would help with the identification of the issue and then would find the right department that 119 has certain enforcement of that to get rid of junk off land, or maybe there’s a tire removal fund or grants available. 120 Planning will try and hit the problem from a few different angles and bring it to the attention of other resources outside 121 of the County. In cases where a property owner may recognize a health issue, especially with the Zika Virus and the 122 like, they can seek to do something for their own purposes and their neighbors’ also. 123 124 Kim Piracci asked if anyone has contacted the company noted in the letter, Triangle Tire and Service Center, 125 regarding possible health hazards. 126 127 Craig Benedict answered that the Planning Department’s next point step will be to contact the company as a 128 courtesy. He said that Planning send out many notes that say something like “You may or may not realize that you 129 have a violation on your property. Please speak with us. We’ll help you to resolve the issue.” 130 131 Kim Piracci asked if the used tires are stored in a pile. 132 133 Craig Benedict explained that used tires may be stored temporarily in a pile until there are enough take a load out. 134 There are also gently used tires that a business may not have storage for. Tire storage is a volatile area; tires are 135 stored outside more than you may think. 136 137 Paul Guthrie said that he could think of at least three other places in the County where they have similar storage of 138 tires, and it seems to him that whichever organization that may be promoting that kind of business ought to pay 139 attention to the fact that tires can be placed around, helter skelter, at what is a former gas station or a former store. 140 He understands that the issue as it is now, but that somewhere, sometime, there should be a conversation about the 141 physical limits on what you can store. There are a couple of places with tires encroaching on the right-of-way. He 142 recognized that Planning Staff does not have the authority to deal with that. 143 144 Craig Benedict spoke about disposal fees. He wondered if disposal fee monies could be put towards collection and 145 proper disposal. 146 147 Paul Guthrie said that some of these places, two that he knows of, sell used tires for reuse. 148 149 Kim Piracci asked about the disposal process. When they have accumulated enough tires to be disposed of, what 150 does the disposal process look like? What happens to them? 151 152 Craig Benedict explained that the tires go to the landfill and then they are shipped to a vendor. Some people want the 153 tires and grind them up for certain uses. There is a collection process even at some of our Solid Waste Convenience 154 Centers where you could dump-off “x” amount of tires, but not for commercial dumping. They [tire shops or 155 businesses] should be following their own course of action, and some of them don’t. If Planning had a formal site plan 156 on some old land uses, we could probably direct where tires are stored and how they are covered. However, the 157 majority of these uses go back 20 or 30 years and are “grandfathered-I,” but this is not to say that we turn a blind 158 eye. 159