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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: September 20, 2005 Action Agenda Item No. ~ - C. SUBJECT: Update on Planned Solid Waste Operations Center on Eubanks Road DEPARTMENT: Planning/Solid Waste/Attorney PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT(S): 8/10/05 Chair Letter to Chapel Hill Mayor (including 5/17/05 BOCC Resolution of Intent and Eubanks Road Area Map) 9/6/05 Carrboro Agenda Materials (portion) 9/12/05 Chapel Hill Agenda Materials (portion) 9/8/05 OWASA Agenda Materials INFORMATION CONTACT: Craig Benedict, 245-2585 Gayle Wilson (919) 968-2885 Geof Gledhill, 732-2196 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough Chapel Hill Durham Mebane 732-8181 968-4501 688-7331 336-227-2031 PURPOSE: To discuss the status of the Board of Commissioners' proposed connection of the planned Solid Waste Management Operations Center (to be constructed in 2006 on Eubanks Road) to the Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA) water and sewer systems, BACKGROUND: The University of North Carolina is requiring the Town of Chapel Hill to vacate their current Public Works site on Airport Road at the expiration of the lease in December 2006. That will likewise necessitate the relocation of the County's Solid Waste Management Department, which is currently housed in a modular building at the same location, The planned building to hotase the relocated department will be sited on Orange County property immediately adjacent to the west of the County landfill on Eubanks Road, During two separate April 2005 meetings during which the Board reviewed and endorsed the conceptual planning for the facility and approved its architect, the Board indicated a preference to have the building design accommodate expanded meeting space that would be on the order of the size of the public meeting room in the Government Services Center in Hillsborough, That space would serve not only as training space for Solid Waste departmental staff, but would also provide additional community meeting space and enhance opportunities for environmental education offerings to school children, community groups, and the like. Commissioners noted that with those uses in mind, it would be prudent far this building to be connected to public water and sewer rather than to rely on a well and an on-site septic system or alternative wastewater treatment system, The parcel on which this building will be constructed is in the Rural Buffer. Extension of public water and sewer service into the Rural Buffer is governed by the Water & Sewer Management, Planning, and Boundary Agreement between the Towns of Carrboro, Chapel Hill, and Hillsborough, Orange County, and OWASA.