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6 Bob Sallach made reference to the 25-acre parcels and said that, as they look at the criteria, they are saying that the majority of the parcels should be unencumbered by one of these exclusionary criteria. There should be a significant buffer of about 12.5 acres. Commissioner Gordon said that there were citizens at the information session that wanted to go farther than the 3 miles from the major transportation corridors and more than 12 miles from the centroid, along the truck collection routes because they wanted more territory included. Also, people wanted land to be zoned correctly in commercial or industrial areas. There are not very many commercial or industrial areas in Orange County's planning jurisdiction, and not all of them are within the 12-mile distance from the centroid of waste generation. Commissioner Nelson asked when the County Commissioners would be getting the public comments and Bob Sallach said that they are not prepared to provide these comments tonight in writing. The comments will be received before the next Transfer Station Siting Work Session. Commissioner Gordon said that the public also said that they wanted maps and figures large enough that they could read them. Chair Jacobs suggested that if people want to comment on the exclusionary criteria, then they can comment at the end of this meeting since nothing is being adopted tonight. A citizen asked how the public would be able to see the comments from the public information session before the next meeting and it was answered that the comments would be available on the website and at the next meeting, where there will be discussion and the opportunity for public comment before the vote. Commissioner Carey said that, in view of the fact that this meeting was advertised as a meeting where the Board would hear at least a summary of comments from the public meeting, and then he thinks that these should be heard and then followed up with the written public documents from those meetings along with the consultant's recommendations in response. He requested a brief summary. Bob Sallach summarized his notes from the public information sessions. The public expressed that some of the criteria were overlapping, particularly the ones dealing with future space and additions. Another aspect was the relative importance of the criteria. Regarding the community-specific criteria, the comments were that there needs to be more ability to assign different levels of importance to those criteria. Three levels of importance were suggested at the sessions— important, very important, and extremely important. Another important factor in the discussions was, once the technical criteria evaluation is completed and candidate sites are selected, this is not carried into the community-specific evaluation. The community-specific starts all over again. There was also significant feedback on environmental justice and how that would be defined. 3) Adoption of Final Exclusionary Criteria- DEFERRED 4) HRC Presentation re: Environmental Justice Human Relations Commission Chair Bill Hendrickson said that the commission was asked by several members of the community of the Eubanks Road site to become involved in this because of the justice part of the issue. The County Commissioners asked the HRC to come up with a definition of environmental justice. He thanked Shoshannah Smith for all of the hard work on this. Human Rights and Relations Director Shoshannah Smith made this presentation. She introduced members of the HRC. Margot Lester read the definition as shown below, and Shoshannah Smith went over the remainder of the handout. To: Orange County Board of Commissioners (BoCC)