We will be posting specific ways you can join us to stop this noxious land use. So, come back here often and post your comments. Email questions to NADTTS@gmail.com.
Here's the link for tonight's presentation/power point slides:
Thank you so much for attending. Here are some suggestions on how you can help:
1) Contact all three County Commissioners and request Mark Stoops rescind his letter of recommendation to IDEM.
2) Come to City Council meetings and use the 5 min. period at the beginning of the meetings to voice your opinion of this proposed trash transfer station.
3) Attend Solid Waste Management District meetings and use public comment time. Next meeting: Nat Hill Rm. on the 3rd floor of the Court House, Thurs. March 21st, 4pm.
4) Write letters to IDEM. The most effective time to do this will be in that 30 day window when public input is invited. Make sure that you give IDEM legal reasons to deny the permit because their decision must hold up in a court of law: ie: inadequate infrastructure and limited access. Things that might not fit the variance such as questions about increased noise, etc.
5) Tell your friends and neighbors. If you need petitions or flyers, please email us at nadtts@gmail.com.
6) Contact Susie Johnson, Director of Public Works and Mayor Mark Kruzan and express your opinion and concerns.
7) Come back here often to stay informed.
8) Use the power point slides to organize your thoughts and educate others. Here's the link again.......
It was nice to see the Herald-Times (3/5/13) give some positive press to Steve Volans's proposal for a public facility to handle the solid waste stream from our community. However, I am still disappointed in the fact that the H-T coverage is still spreading the disinformation coming from the business owner and the city planning director. One can't help consider, given the continued obfuscation, if we may be looking at some kind a back-room deal going on here.
ReplyDeleteOnce again, let's set the record straight.
Fiction: "[The Solid Waste Transfer Facility] . . . is allowed under the current zoning because of a 1984 variance giving the owners of the property to expand or or update a scrap yard on the property."
Fact: The only thing that the 1984 variance did was legalize the existing non-conforming automotive scrapyard for sale after the discovery of environmental contamination at the site and expressly prohibit any change in use without a site review.
Fiction:"The proposed [trash transfer station] would be considered a salvage/scrap yard as defined in the Unified Development Ordinance."
Fact:: Ind. Code 13-11-2-212 clearly defines a trash transfer station as a "Solid Waste Processing Facility" and there is no provision in the Unified Development Ordinance whatsoever for a such a facility in any zoning district in the city.
It does not matter how many times this disinformation appears in the local media, repeating these lies over and over again does not make them true.