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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board . <br /> June 3, 2009 <br /> August 6, 2009 <br /> Operations Center and Bus Garage . The properties extend across Millhouse Road . <br /> The county owns the Blackwood property that will be turned into a park . The County <br /> owns another potential big block of potential future park land about 150 or 160 acres <br /> with a private ten acre in-holding . Mrs . Blackwood made it known that she did not <br /> want her property used for solid waste purposes . Dr . Paydufar owns some ten acres <br /> and the County bought that from him . It abuts the landfill; as a practical matter, if <br /> anyone wanted to look at it, along with the Town properties, it could be looked at for <br /> a transfer station if anyone were interested . It is about the same distance from local <br /> utilities . All this is also in the rural buffer, so from a regulatory standpoint, they' re the <br /> same . <br /> Sassaman states that it seems that the area adjacent to the landfill has an acceptable <br /> topography and form factor for a waste transfer station, it would have all the <br /> amenities, the benefits of the Chapel Hill Town property in terms of location, <br /> operational considerations, etc . except for one crossing of the railroad track . It would <br /> also be removed from all these properties and the school . It may scale higher on the <br /> demographic people weighting criteria and stay equal on the others . I don' t know . <br /> I ' m just trying to think out of the box and not throw a monkey wrench in the works . <br /> Those operational things would be really great. There is a small stream that might be <br /> a problem . <br /> Guild states that there would be no lease cost either . [It' s County-owned] <br /> Wilson states that it is true that you would have to cross the tracks to get to that <br /> property . This is a fairly flat piece of property that as no obvious environmental <br /> issues . That stream does not extend to that property . <br /> Sassaman states that I am under the impression that there is not a lot of train traffic up <br /> and down that line, just coal to UNC but isn' t that part of what they are thinking <br /> about in the mass transit — the rail corridor . I ' m just tossing it out. <br /> Vickers states that there are other sites around they could look at, but the question is <br /> are we going to go back into that site search or just evaluate this site compared to <br /> what they have ? <br /> Sassaman states that we are evaluating Millhouse because it was offered to us by <br /> Chapel Hill and does it make sense to think in terms of an alternative site that we <br /> already own . <br /> Wilson states that if the SWAB wishes to make the suggestion to the BOCC that' s <br /> possible . I ' m not sure the Commissioners would welcome another site or not. <br /> 10 <br />