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• 5 91 Sites with Less than 25 Acres in Size Unless Transportation Access, Existing Buffers, and Preliminary Transfer Station Layout Demonstrates the Adequacy of a Smaller Site Definition: 25-acre single parcel or combination of parcels Commissioner Gordon made reference to Attachment 2-a and the action: "Recommend minimum 25-acre site unless co-located with other municipal facilities or operations which provide access and/or buffers to reduce this size requirement." She asked how that was addressed. Ed Shuffler said that the currently proposed wording was included in response to comments from the Board about possibly having a smaller site with co-location. Criteria Under Consideration: j Sites with "Protected Watershed Overlay District" Exempting Therein Those Non-Residential Land Use Activity Nodes (i.e., Commercial/Industrial, Commercial, Industrial, and Economic Development) FLUE 1981-19941 (Figure 9) Definition: Exclude residential areas with protected watershed overlay districts, and include non-residential activity nodes with Protected Watershed Overlay District. Ed Shuffler pointed out Composite 9, which includes Figures 1-9. Commissioner Gordon said to revise Figure 3b and bring it back so that the Board can see what it would look like without the three-mile street buffers as shown in Figure 3a. Ed Shuffler said he would to that. Commissioner Gordon asked clarifying questions about the process, which were answered by Ed Shuffler. 3. Receive Public Comment on Preliminary Exclusionary Criteria and Professional Recommendations Chair Jacobs pointed out that there will be other criteria that follow this that will address additional issues involving technical criteria and community criteria. Bob Nutter said that he is a taxpayer in Orange County, he is interested in projects that cost money to Orange County, and this project will be costly. He suggested transferring waste by rail versus roads, since the cost of oil is drastically changing. He said that this project will hopefully be for the long term and he would like the Board to take into consideration the cost of fuel of transferring waste. Tish Galu is a resident of Orange County. She made reference to the exclusionary criteria and asked how the 2025 mean center population was being applied here. Craig Benedict said that, in order to determine the centroid of waste generation in the County, they took all census tracts in the County, they took the population projections for each sets of tracts, and ran the data through a GIS system to determine the shortest distance to take all trips to one focal point in the County. The most efficient place, based on this calculation, is the centroid of waste generation. The 12-mile distance was based on the centroid. The source of the data was the Metropolitan Planning Organization projections. Stan Cheren made reference to page 11, #9 and asked how small a space could be used for a transfer site. Bob Sallach said that, according to comments that came from the public sessions, as they look at buffers, they need to look at buffer width as well as what they want to buffer. It is hard to project at this point a minimum size.