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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: March 14, 2000 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. ~ - Q <br />SUBJECT: Solid Waste Matters -Greene Tract and Amendments to Solid Waste Interlocal <br />Agreement <br />DEPARTMENT: Manager/ERCD/Planning PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) Na <br />Attorney <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />3/9/00 Staff Review Memo <br />Proposed "Agreement to Amend the <br />Agreement for Solid Waste" <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Rod Visser, ext 2300; David Stancil, ext <br />2590; Craig Benedict, ext 2592; Geof <br />Gledhill; 732-2196 <br />Consultant Report on Biological Resources TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Survey (to be distributed prior to 3/14 Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />meeting under separate cover) Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To discuss the transfer of a 60-acre portion of the Greene Tract to Orange <br />County ownership, and to discuss possible changes to the interlocal agreement governing the <br />future management of solid waste in Orange County. <br />BACKGROUND: In September 1999, Orange County and the Towns of Carrboro and Chapel <br />Hill culminated a lengthy process of negotiation regarding solid waste management. That <br />process resulted in the signing by the three parties of an interlocal agreement under which <br />Orange County will exercise overall responsibility for the future management of solid waste in <br />Orange County. One of the provisions of that agreement included the rezoning of a 60-acre <br />portion of the Greene Tract to make permissible, under zoning regulations, certain solid waste <br />management activities. The Board of Commissioners at their February 29 meeting decided to <br />withdraw the request for that rezoning, and directed the Manager and Attorney to develop <br />suggested changes to the approved interlocal agreement that would be needed as a result of <br />that decision. The target date far assumption by the County of overall solid waste management <br />authority was adjusted from March 20 to April 17, 2000. The additional time was intended to <br />allow the parties to agree to amendments to the interlocal agreement and on the exact <br />delineation of the 60-acre portion of the Greene Tract. <br />The Board commissioned two surveys of the entire Greene Tract to inform the decision about <br />which 60 acres should be transferred to the County. A final report on the cultural/ <br />archaeological resources on the property, and an interim report on the biological/environmental <br />resources, were considered by the Board in their February 29 deliberations. The final <br />