Landfill options get closer to home
The City Beat attended yet another dull meeting on your behalf Thursday. Grand Forks City Council member Curt Kreun said, "He's here so often it's like he's one of us."
I tell ya what, you know how anthropologists hang out with their subjects a long long time until they blend into the background? That's me, your anthropologist at City Hall. I was gonna say Jane Goodall, but that'd be calling city officials chimps and that ain't nice.
Anyway, back to the point: Looks like that landfill lawsuit the city is embroiled in with the Turtle River Township zoning board is getting more and more uncertain. So the city is preparing some options in case it loses.
I feel for those guys at the city. Nobody wants a landfill in their backyard so the only way the city's gonna get a landfill without a fight is to put it, say, in the middle of nuclear weapon test site. I say this because I'm expecting the options being laid out to be challenged.
1) The city could put a landfill somewhere within its four-mile extraterritorial jurisdiction, which is the area where it controls zoning codes. That'll get people riled up because, earlier this year, when the city was extending the ET, many landowners were paranoid that this was to make it easier to build a landfill near them. City leaders said they just wanted to control growth in the region. Well, now they've decided the landowners' fears sound like a viable idea.
2) The city is working with some landowners in Lakeville Township, southwest of Turtle River Township. The landowners there apparently want to sell their land to the city to build a landfill. The question is do they have neighbors and are those neighbors gonna be mad?
3) The city could work with Fargo to build a new landfill together. But, again, where is it going to be and who lives nearby?
The only option that's not going to make anybody mad is to say the hell with it and contract with Waste Management, which owns a couple of landfills in North Dakota. Of course, none of them are nearby so the region will have to pay more for garbage. Maybe that'll make somebody mad, too.
I tell ya what, you know how anthropologists hang out with their subjects a long long time until they blend into the background? That's me, your anthropologist at City Hall. I was gonna say Jane Goodall, but that'd be calling city officials chimps and that ain't nice.
Anyway, back to the point: Looks like that landfill lawsuit the city is embroiled in with the Turtle River Township zoning board is getting more and more uncertain. So the city is preparing some options in case it loses.
I feel for those guys at the city. Nobody wants a landfill in their backyard so the only way the city's gonna get a landfill without a fight is to put it, say, in the middle of nuclear weapon test site. I say this because I'm expecting the options being laid out to be challenged.
1) The city could put a landfill somewhere within its four-mile extraterritorial jurisdiction, which is the area where it controls zoning codes. That'll get people riled up because, earlier this year, when the city was extending the ET, many landowners were paranoid that this was to make it easier to build a landfill near them. City leaders said they just wanted to control growth in the region. Well, now they've decided the landowners' fears sound like a viable idea.
2) The city is working with some landowners in Lakeville Township, southwest of Turtle River Township. The landowners there apparently want to sell their land to the city to build a landfill. The question is do they have neighbors and are those neighbors gonna be mad?
3) The city could work with Fargo to build a new landfill together. But, again, where is it going to be and who lives nearby?
The only option that's not going to make anybody mad is to say the hell with it and contract with Waste Management, which owns a couple of landfills in North Dakota. Of course, none of them are nearby so the region will have to pay more for garbage. Maybe that'll make somebody mad, too.
posted by Tu-Uyen at 10:23 PM
2 Comments:
Sounds to me like someone is looking to make money in Lakeville township. They must know now much the city paid for the land in Levant township. If I am not mistaken, there is US Fish and Wildlife area in Lakeville Township.
My mistake. I meant they knew how much money the city paid for the land in Turtle River township.
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