Study re: Carbondate Colorado and other areas with Solid Waste Transfer

http://nearwestside.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/bbc_report_carbondale_final.pdf        
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

BBC Research & Consulting (BBC) was retained by a coalition of local homeowners associations
in the Carbondale area to assess the potential economic effects of a proposed solid waste
transfer facility on County Road 100 (Catherine Store Road) less than two miles east of
downtown Carbondale. The following are the key findings from this assignment:

• Waste transfer stations can increase the efficiency of a region’s solid waste disposal system and can potentially reduce waste disposal costs.

•  These facilities are not a benign land use. Waste transfer stations are officially recognized as
  a “noxious” or negative impact land use. Both the federal government and some state
  governments have analyzed the siting of waste transfer stations, primarily due to concerns
  about impacts on low income and minority communities.

• A 2006‐07 nationwide study of waste transfer stations in Israel found statistically
  significant impacts on nearby residential property values. On average, estimated impacts
  extended approximately 1.8 miles from the site, with impacts decreasing with greater
  distance from the site. While no comparable study of U.S. waste transfer stations has been
  published to date, findings from prior studies of property value impacts from U.S. landfills
  support the results of the Israeli waste transfer site study.

•  Applying the distance‐impact function from the 2006‐07 study to property values and
  locations near the proposed Carbondale waste transfer station results in a projected $16.5
  million reduction in property values, corresponding to approximately $100,000 per year in
  reduced property tax revenues.

•  The geographic and topographic characteristics of the proposed waste transfer station site,
  along with the nature of the Carbondale real estate market, may well lead to larger impacts
  than were found in analyses of more urbanized locations. Local realtors report that the
  proposed use of the site is already affecting the market and nearby residential property
  values. Delays in the development of residential lots near the site would have further
  economic consequences that were not captured in this study.