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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> March 8 , 2007 <br /> Approved April 5, 2007 <br /> Wilson says we' d have to move the convenience center and transfer station would be <br /> located where the fenced equipment and trailer yard are now . <br /> Kingman asks if we were to loose our position which is against locating on Eubanks <br /> Rd . , is there any way you can plan for the eighteen wheelers and garbage trucks to <br /> come off I40 from MKL Jr . Blvd . come back that way and not jeopardize the two new <br /> schools going up in the Rogers Rd . community . <br /> Wilson states that we would, by contract, require the hauler to go east on Eubanks Rd . <br /> to New 86 to the interstate . They would not be allowed to go west back towards <br /> Rogers Rd . I would require them to go the way you want them to go . <br /> Cook asks what about the garbage trucks . <br /> Wilson states that there was a policy established by the Towns to not use Rogers Rd . <br /> for access to the landfill . Though now Carrboro services homes off Rogers Rd . they <br /> will have no choice . We have no control over private collectors . I don' t know of any <br /> way to exercise control over them other than through a franchise . <br /> Bowerman states that whichever site is chosen they would send all the trucks down <br /> NC 86 [NOTE : this would be true for either old 86 or new 86] [which] will be full of <br /> garbage trucks so that' s not an argument one way or another . <br /> Pollock states that you are seeing all the garbage trucks you are going to see now . A <br /> transfer station is not going to be a draw for more garbage trucks . <br /> Bowerman states that people might want it to change once the school buses are there . <br /> Wilson states that the school site was picked knowing that the landfill was there and <br /> that there was a chance that the transfer station would be there too . All trucks would <br /> be going north if the transfer station were on 70 and they would all be on 86 . <br /> Voyce states that I want to make sure I understand that there is no engineering report <br /> on where the garbage is coming from, tonnage, and / or routes . <br /> Wilson replies no, there is no document with all that written out. <br /> Voyce asks do any of you know what the estimated population of Orange County is <br /> in twenty-five years . Mr . Benedict [Orange County planner] says it will double . The <br /> doubling will not happen in Chapel Hill and Carrboro . I think that an engineering <br /> report will show the growth will be moving north . That is what is missing from this <br /> 6 <br />