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County, the small local sawmill operators, the local woodworkers and builders, and even to the homeowners who would like the wood from their trees to go to a better use. The Millhouse Road parcel addresses these problems of waste and noise pollution. The 10-acre plot is centrally located for ease of servicing tree care operations in southern Orange County, but also ideally situated such that disturbances to neighbors would be minimal to nonexistent. The parcel borders the County landfill to its south and is surrounded on all sides by County-owned land and Duke Forest. The nearest residential structure is about a quarter of a mile away. This location would serve as our company headquarters where we would stage the woody materials brought back in mixed loads by our local tree crews. This location would alleviate pressure to tow large tree-processing machinery into residential neighborhoods. By having this staging area we foresee being able to replace high capacity towable wood chippers with grapple trucks that can load and haul away logs and brushy material without the need for on-site processing. Such grapple trucks would be similar to those already in use by many municipalities for local curbside debris pick up, except that they would be built and rated for log pickup. From the 10-acre parcel the staged and organized material could then be efficiently transported to log mills, green-waste processing centers, and biofuel plants. These grapple trucks and the location for log staging would also enable us to collaborate with other local tree services for similarly managing their wood waste. We would offer to local tree services the option of hiring us to haul away their logs from residential locations, thereby multiplying our impact on noise pollution and natural resource waste. In helping to resolve the noise pollution problem, we would be helping Orange County achieve the following Goals and Objectives of its 2030 Comprehensive Plan: ●ED Goal 4: Partnerships that ensure the County remains a great place in which to live and work. ●Objective H-3.1: Achieve residential neighborhoods that are attractive and well maintained. ●Goal LU-1: Fiscally and environmentally responsible, sustainable growth,consistent with the provision of adequate services and facilities and a high quality of life. (italics added) In enabling us to direct locally produced wood chips to energy production and logs to lumber we would be helping the county with one of the “key issues” identified in its 2030 plan, namely 4 21