HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1989.11.09 - 17087Miscellaneous Resolution 89293 November 9, 1989
BY: Richard G. Skarritt, Commissioner, District 2
IN RE: Solid Waste-Landfill Siting Moratorium
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, solid waste planning is both complex and
time-cornsuming, and in its effort to provide the best long-term solid
waste program, which is both cost-effective and environmentally sound
encompassing recycling, composting, incinerating and landfilling, the
County has relied on input by the appointed Act 641 Solid Waste Planning
Committee and the citizens' Landfill Siting Advisory Committee (LSAC), and
WHEREAS, compounded by consultant errors, LSAC's attempts
to meet its charge of siting a landfill which does not damage the
environment and which financially protects every citizen and every
community and adjacent community may create an excessive financial
burden on Oakland County residents, and
WHEREAS, the recent inclusion by the Solid Waste Planning
Committee of the Marlowe-BFI site in the Act 641 Plan, knowing that such
inclusion conflicts with the intent of Resolution #89214 and, further, the
Solid Waste Planning Committee's proposed inclusion of the Counties of
Wayne, Wash tenaw, Lapeer, Livingston, Macomb and Genesee to the
updated Plan will enable those counties to export their garbage to
Oakland County's private landfills, if Oakland County itself proceeds to
create an excess landfill capacity by the development of a 40-year
landfill, and
WHEREAS, the entire landfill siting process is out of control,
both financially and environmentally, and
WHEREAS, the county's solid waste plan cannot take effect
until approved by the municipalities and such ratification will not take
place if the plan is not developed on a cost-effective and environmentally
sound basis.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the County cease all
activities relative to siting the proposed 40-year landfill until such time
as the Act 641 Plan Update is completed and approved by Oak/and
County, and its municipalities.
Mr. Chairperson, I recommend adoption of the foregoing
resolution.
CAR/
Richard G. Skarritt, Commissioner, District 4
#89293
November 9, 1989
The Chairperson referred the resolution to the Planning and Building
Committee. There were no objections.