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i ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: November 22, 1999 SUBJECT: Solid Waste Matters -Greene Tract Action Agenda Item No. 1. DEPARTMENT: County Manager/Solid Waste PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT(S): 11/17/99 Solid Waste Director Memo Greene Tract Maps 11/8/99 CH Town Manager Memo - "Development Ordinance Text Amendment" 11/8!99 Chapel Hill Ordinance INFORMATION CONTACT: Rod Visser, ext 2300 Gayle Wilson, 968-2885 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough Chapel Hill Durham Mebane 732-8181. 968-4501 688-7331 336-227-2031 PURPOSE: To receive and discuss information related to the designation of 60 acres of the Greene Tract for possible future use for solid waste management activities. BACKGROUND: At their work session on November 9, the Board discussed a number of solid waste matters, including issues related to the designation of 60 acres of the Greene Tract for possible solid waste activities, as provided for in the recently signed solid waste management interlocal agreement. The Board directed specifically that archaeological and environmental assessments of the Greene Tract should be carried out as soon as possible and before the effective date of the agreement, when day-to-day solid waste operations will be handed over to the County. The Board also discussed recent action by the Town of Chapel Hill to create a new zoning district called a "Materials Handling District", which classification would presumably apply to the 60 acres of the Greene Tract that will ultimately be designated as a location for possible "solid waste management facilities". Solid Waste Director Gayle Wilson has prepared a memo which describes a general process, timetable, and estimated costs for the conduct of the surveys requested by the Board. Staff requests that the Board provide direction on specific elements it would like to have addressed in these surveys, so that staff can develop detailed scopes of work for dissemination to potential contractors who might carry out the survey work. Staff will pursue the initiation of the surveys' in December with the aim of completing work by early February. The results of the surveys could be considered by the County Commissioners and Chapel Hill Town Council in their decisions about amendments to the Joint Planning Agreement (JPA) that will be needed to carry out the contemplated rezoning of a portion of the Greene Tract. In order to meet the planned handover date of March 20, 2000, the JPA public hearing that would normally be held in mid-April will need. to be accelerated to late February or the first week of March. The exact date for that