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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 11031987 - S.1 TD% BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FROM: Supervisors McPeak and Torlakson ltd Costa DATE: October 27, 1987Cointy SUBJECT; AMENDMENT TO SOLID WASTE PLAN SPECIFIC RE EST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGRC)UND AND "JUSTIFICAT16N RECOMMENDED ACTION: Amend the Solid Waste Plan as requested by mayors and city council members to include two Preserve'! sites. BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Believing that the Solid Waste Plan is deficient in not listing specific landfill site alternatives while at the same time reflecting only limited capacity remaining within the county, the city leaders have asked for an. amendment to the plan to include up to two sites. The. State Solid Waste Management Board will find our county Solid Waste Plan much more. acceptable if we -have a listing of one or more sites as "reserve" sites. The initiation of such a Solid Waste Plan Amendment would have a further benefit -of. providing an opportunity for consensus to form around the extremely controversial and divisive landfill siting process. A significant number of city leaders believe that the two applications that have been submitted are fatally defective and would do great harm to the community within which they have been proposed and to .the public facilities that would be effected. The cities appreciate the dilemma of the Board of Super- visors needing to have some solution to our. capacity problem. The circulation of this proposed ,amendment to the .Solid Waste Plan through the cities would provide a valuable opportunity to determine a level of consensus regarding ".back up" or "alternative" sites. Actual city deliberation and votes on this amendment could provide signifi- cant direction for moving the landfill siting process ahead in a positive manner. The opportunity exists for a consensus to emerge on one or more sites which would enable the processing of applications on these sites to move forward expeditiously and effectively without the divisiveness that has been the recent experience on the two proposed sites in front of the Board at this' .time. CONTINUED ON ATTACFMENT: _� YES SIGNATURE': RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE APPROVE OTHER 51GNATUREIS1: ACTION OF BOARD ON Pdovember ?ROVED AS RECC.:i,'Id F.IJ D,ED OTHER X " This recommendation was included in one of the motions during the consideration of Items T,7 and T.8 on today's. agenda. The motion which included amending the Solid Waste Plan to include additional sites failed to carry. . THIS 'IS A MATTER OF RECORD r. VOTE OF SUPERVISORS . 1 HEREB;' CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE UNANIMOUS (ABSEr[T ) AMID CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN AYES: NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD ABSENT; ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN. CC: ATTESTED" PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR BY .M382/1-83 ,DEPUTY Amendment to Solid Waste Plan October 27, 1987 Page TWO The two sites recommended for inclusion .in the Solid Waste Plan amendment .are the Marsh Creek/Foskett site (VI-4B) * and the Bay Pointe site (between- North Concord. and West Pittsburg next to. the Navy base) ) . These sites .were recommended by the countyl.s Landfill Siting .Task Force after they reviewed scores of sites across the entire county. In .making this recommendation, it -is 'also clearly recognized that ;any final approval of a. landfill site by the Board of. Supervisors willinvolve the full' EIR and public hearing process-I-and that any site ;that .is ultimately approved by the Board of Supervisors and the cities .must meet the test of being an environmentally sound site in not having any fatal flaws identified through' that;. extensive ' environmental reporting and .public hearing process.. -------------------- *In a .letter dated October 1, 1987; the' East Bay Regional Park District indicated they would support the Bay Pointe site and they would not oppose the Marsh. Creek site. Originally, the :'Marsh Creek site" also included reference to the Round Valley area. This is not included in the current proposed .site which is more than a mile from Round Valley and hidden:by a ridge from that valley.