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Continued from page 1 comprehensive plan, its description of a tranquil town . . . The other issues are very real, but I’m not sure the town can address them.”
Mr. Wickens replied, “I’m not sure about the town’s power to regulate traffic. The state maintains the roads.”
Following expressions of opposition to the supervisors’ proposal from several county residents who live along the Fodderstack, including Lee Bird, Susan Lane and Alan Olsen, the council discussed the approach it should adopt toward the proposed landfill site.
Mayor Morehouse said that “we’re trying to convey a sense of our concerns to the board. We’re not trying to take a forceful position, except to put it to the board - ‘these are our concerns’. The key words are ‘factual and forceful’. We must gather our concerns and express them with unanimity.”
Supervisor J. Newbill Miller, who represents Hampton District, which includes the Town of Washington, explained to the council that “we have made no firm commitment to the Lee site - we’ve not even made a tentative commitment.”
Regardless of the site, Supervisor Miller continued, “The supervisors make a recommendation. Then the state decides the site’s feasibility, and a consultant is hired to make a study (of the environmental impact of the site). After that is completed there has to be zoning approval, a public hearing before the planning commission, and another before the board.
“I don’t know about the visibility question,” Mr. Miller added. His rer
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