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“People produce trash,” said Commissioner Werner Krebser, noting the irony in that Amissville residents were alone in favoring highei population density during the recent hearings on the county’s new zoning ordinance. “The only way we car keep the trash down is to keep the density down. The more population we have, the more trash we produce.”
He declared his support for the Comprehensive Plan amendment. “We have to leave it to the state tc say whether this is a good site. We’re only here to provide a vehicle for the county to allow a site to be selected.”
Commissioner David Fannon suggested that the questions raised over potential groundwater contamination and inadequacies in the engineering report be forwarded to the State Department of Waste Management. As to the Comprehensive Plan amendment, the commission’s representative from Jackson District proposed that it provide for a landfill site acceptable to that agency without specifying any location.
NewbUl Miller, the board’s representative on the commission, noted that the department’s geologist had reviewed the geotechnical report on the Stover tract and determined it “appears to indicate that the site is suitable for a landfill.”
Describing himself as a native of Rappahannock and a farmer who has worked the land, John Clark said he’s “well aware of the water situation” without having visited the Stover property. He told the audience that he’d come to the meeting undecided on his position, but that the maps they’d brought to prove the allgedly suitable site unsuitable had convinced him of just the opposite. There aren’t many 100-acre tracts without houses remaining in the county, Mr. Clark noted. “And you’d have to look pretty hard to find 100 acres with only a 100-foot difference in elevation,” he said, adding, “there is not an ideal spot in the county.”
“We all create trash,” he reminded the people from Amissville. “I’m going to pay for that thing just the same way as you are.”
Following Mr. Miller’s suggested wording, the commissioners voted 41, with Mr. Fannon opposed, to recommend adoption of the Comprehensive Plan amendment.
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