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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: November 1, 2000 <br />Action Age Ada . <br />Item No. ~- <br />SUBJECT: SUP-1-00 ~-Special Use Permit Modification for the Construction of a Shelter <br />for an Existin Rec clin Pad at the Oran a Count Landfill <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning & Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) Yes <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Application Eddie Kirk, Planner II, ext 2582 <br />Vicinity Map <br />Staff Memorandum TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Findings of Fact Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />8-28-00 Public Hearing Minutes (Draft) Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />10~-00 Planning Board Minutes (Draft) Durham fi88-7331 <br /> Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider a modification to a Class A Special Use Permit for the construction of <br />a shelter for an existing recycling pad at the Orange County Landfill. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />Introduction: In FY 1999-00, the County's drop-off and commercial glass recycling programs <br />were brought in-house because of unreliable service, missed collections, and poor record <br />keeping on the part of the contractors who to that point had been carrying out these programs. <br />These recycling materials are now being processed on and around an open-air concrete slab <br />constructed specifically to accommodate these programs. Since the program was brought in- <br />house, there has been an increase of about 43 percent in the volume of materials recycled. <br />Funds were included in the approved FY 2000-01 Solid Waste/Landfill Operations Enterprise <br />Fund to construct a shelter for the recycling processing and to provide additional concrete pad <br />space. The shelter would minimize the difficult working conditions that Solid Waste <br />Management employees often face because of the operation's exposure to the wind, cold, sun, <br />and rain. Enclosing the processing area would limit the blowing of plastics and aluminum cans, <br />as well as some of the contaminants contained within the materials, such as paper. At the <br />lower level of the recycling pad, the processed materials are currently handled with a skid steer <br />loader (bobcat). The current pad area provides insufficient maneuvering area for this machine <br />as it loads the processed materials. <br />Request - Class A Special Use Permit Modification <br />Applicant: Orange County <br />Location and Zoning <br />• The Orange Regional Landfill is located on the north and south sides of Eubanks Road (SR <br />1727) north of Chapel Hill. The subject property (Tax Map Number 7.18..27D) contains <br />