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From Page 1 it,” noted Supervisor J.R. Latham in reference to the chance that Rappahannock may obtain funding for a public landfill after allowing the Updikes to operate a private facility and then find itself with two landfills.
The Supervisors don’t issue special use permits perse, said Commonwealth’s Attorney George Davis. In order for the Board to act, it must rezone the area and designate the rezoned property as a sanitary landfill. The property could be purchased and run by a public or private concern with th|is procedure, explained Davis. v It would be possible to exercise much more control over how the landfill was operated if the county owned it, said Davis, particularly in regard to accepting outof-county trash. The county couldn’t very well tell a private operator that he couldn’t bring in refuse from outside Rappahannock. If the county owned the site, “they could establish the policy of not running it themselves but could lease it to a private operator,” and still retain control over how the facility was used.
LUKE asked the Updikes if they would be willing to specify in writing to the Supervisors that they wouldn’t take anything but Rappahannock trash. Neither Ruth nor E.B. immediately responded. “Or would you be willing to buy the property and then lease it to the Board so the Board could exercise more control?” he asked, again. Again, he received no direct response to his question.
Mrs. Updike did say that Community Trash had no intentions of hauling out-of-county refuse into a Rappahannock landfill on a regular basis. Economically, it wouldn’t be feasible because of the hauling distances involved. But she added that in an emergency, if a truck broke down, it might be necessary to use the landfill, in Rappahannock for trash from elsewhere. “There’d be no reason to do it,” added E.B. Updike. “Every other county has their own landfill.”
Davis noted that a special use permit would still be needed for the actual establishment of a landfill, even after a rezoning. In an amendment to the county’s ordinance, the Supervisors could include a provision for the issuance of a conditional use permit, advised Davis. Then a large parcel of land could be rezoned for a landfill but the conditional permit could control the area of excavation. “This would give the Board much more flexibility,” concluded Da“The
landfill would have to be operated under state regulations, no matter what we do,” noted Supervisor Latham.
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