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some said.
“Retirees on fixed incomes shouldn’t have to lower their standard of living when their yesterdays outnumber their tomorrows,” said Suzanne Grove, a small builder who contended that impact fees would unduly burden businesses like hers.
“First they want conditions. Then they want proffers. Then they come back and want more conditions. Then they come back and want more proffers. Now they want impact fees on top of that,” said Bailey Craig, saying he wasn’t necessarily opposed to building fees alone.
Before adjourning last Wednesday’s public hearing in Albemarle and taking the subcommittee on to Richmond for the last in the series of statewide meetings, Del. Cranwell pointed again to the “terrible transportation problems” faced by Northern Virginia, Tidewater and Richmond. These three areas pay more in taxes to the state than they get in revenue from the state. “They are exporters of state revenue,” and if something isn’t done to assist these local governments with their transportation dilemma, “we can choke to death one of the greatest resources we have,” he cautioned.
“There’s no question that impact fees are possible,” Del. Cranwell said. “Whether impact fees are reasonable or not depends on how they’re structured.”
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safety features for adequacy in preventing leachate from entering the environment and the sufficiency of its monitoring system for detecting this contamination. In fact, his report is titled “A Study of the Impact of Solid Waste Disposal in Amissville, Virginia.”
On the basis of various technical reports produced by Joyce Engineering, the firm hired by the county to evaluate the Stover site and design the landfill, Mr. McThenia concludes:
• the site has numerous deficiencies, “the most disturbing of which is its proximity to wells, streams and wetlands areas.”
• the metal treads on the bulldozer to be used for daily operations “could easily press sharp rocks, wood or metal through the liner” in the disposal trench.
• the placement of the French drain system, which is intended .to provide early warning of any leaking leachate, “is not conducive to safety”
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