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