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1 Preliminary Community-Specific Criteria Evaluation (Agenda Abstract, Including <br /> 2 Exhibits 1-6) <br /> 3 <br /> 4 <br /> 5 Lewis Watts from Olver, Inc. introduced Sandy Warner, Professional Geologist, and Ron <br /> 6 Singleton, Senior Civil Engineer, who were involved in applying technical criteria to the sites. <br /> 7 He made a PowerPoint presentation. <br /> 8 <br /> 9 Summary of Siting Process <br /> 10 1. Establish Criteria for Identifying and Evaluating Potential Sites <br /> 11 • Develop Criteria Prior to Identifying Potential Sites <br /> 12 2. Three Categories of Criteria: <br /> 13 • Exclusionary <br /> 14 • Technical <br /> 15 • Community-Specific <br /> 16 3. Establish each Criterion's Relative Weight and Importance <br /> 17 4. Identify Potential Sites based upon Exclusionary Criteria <br /> 18 5. Evaluation of Potential Sites with Respect to Final Technical Criteria and Weighting <br /> 19 Factors <br /> 20 6. Determination of Final Candidate Sites <br /> 21 7. Evaluation of Final Candidate Sites based upon Final Community-Specific Criteria and <br /> 22 Weighting Factors <br /> 23 8. Final Ranking of Candidate Sites <br /> 24 9. Site Selection <br /> 25 <br /> 26 Progress Overview <br /> 27 1. Completed Development and Approval of Criteria <br /> 28 • Exclusionary Criteria <br /> 29 • Technical Criteria and Weighting Factors <br /> 30 • Community-Specific Criteria and Weighting Factors <br /> 31 2. Conducted Initial Phase of the Site Selection Process <br /> 32 • Purpose— Identify Potential Sites for Technical Evaluation <br /> 33 3. Applied Exclusionary Criteria to Identify Sites having >_25 Acres of Unencumbered Site <br /> 34 Area <br /> 35 4. Conducted Initial Phase of the Site Selection Process (continued) <br /> 36 • County GIS data was used to identify sites <br /> 37 • 379 parcels > 25 acres <br /> 38 • Applied Protected Watershed Criteria —242 parcels > 25 acres <br /> 39 • Screened 242 parcels with respect to technical suitability— identified most <br /> 40 favorable sites <br /> 41 • Selected 10 Potential Sites for Technical Evaluation <br /> 42 <br /> 43 Progress Overview <br /> 44 1. Completed Technical Evaluation Phase <br /> 45 • Purpose— Ranking of Potential Sites and Selection of Final Candidate Sites <br /> 46 for Community-Specific Evaluation Phase <br /> 47 2. Ordinal Ranking of Sites with Respect to each Technical Criteria <br /> 48 3. Computation of Site Point Totals <br /> 49 • Based upon Ordinal Rank and Criteria Weighting Factor <br /> 50 <br />