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example in ranking site characteristics in order of priority. Determine if access or central location is top priority; describe the soil types necessary for a landfill, he told the supervisors.
Once criteria are established, it may become obvious that only 20 percent of Rappahannock’s land meets those criteria, he said, acknowledging that the elimination process would provide clues as to where a dump would have to go. “But at least that gets it to the public that this is what’s going to happen... The neighbors are going to oppose it but then, when you get to the point of actual site consideration, the public will have been informed all along,” Mr. Reynold said.
Recalling the landfill selection process in Culpeper, Mr. Miller noted that supervisors there used criteria to decide between four possible sites. “We’d really like to have one option ... I could see the point of criteria if we had more than one choice, but we really don’t even have one!”
Mr. Reynolds countered that the board should establish criteria, establish where to locate a landfill, make the landowner a fair offer and if that offer is turned down, “it doesn’t matter who owns it, you
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