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Kittitas County Transfer Station <br /> Community Meeting Summary <br /> <br /> <br />5 <br /> <br />the facility. If a site is chosen, the County will negotatite with potential land owers for a minimum <br />25 acrea parcel. <br /> <br />• Are routes to and from the transfer station being looked at? It appears the airport site would <br />have users traveling through residential neighborhoods. <br />Response: The project team developed potential routes to each proposed site for customers <br />(trucks and self haul vehicles, as well as transfer vehicles). Our proposed secondary siting criteria <br />includes an evalaution of traffic impact on neighborhoods. <br /> <br />• Is there a lease at the current transfer station site? What happens to the property when you <br />move? <br />Response: The County currently leases the current site from the City of Ellensburg. One option is <br />to relocate some of the buildings to the proposed new location, or the City may decide to utilize <br />the buildings. <br /> <br />• How are you going to get waste transfer trucks out of the airport site? Will they travel the same <br />route as the station users? <br />Response: The project team evaluated potential routes for waste transfer vehicles from the <br />Airport Site. One potential route is to utilize Bowers Road to Reecer Creek Road to West <br />University Way to access I-90. <br /> <br />• Where would the entrance to the airport site be? Will there be split entrances for trucks and <br />customers? <br />Response: The proposed entrance to the Airport road site would be located along Falcon Road at <br />the northwest corner. The proposed conceptual layouts include one entrance for customers and <br />transfer vehicles. Vehicles would be seperated after the scalehose to minimize potential traffic <br />issues. <br /> <br />• Are infrastructure upgrades to roads used by transfer station traffic being included in costs of <br />sites? <br />Response: The conceptual cost estimates include costs to upgrade nearby roads that service the <br />proposed facility at each site. <br /> <br />• Has splitting up operations been considered? For example, keeping some operations at the <br />current location and moving some operations such as composting to another location. <br />Response: The County evaluated splitting the transfer and compost operations and determined <br />the cost of operating two separate operations would be more costly than operating at one <br />location. <br /> <br />• Has impact to house values, land values, county airport development plans, and future leasing <br />potential been looked at. <br />Response: The current secondary screening criteria does not directly include impact on <br />house/land value, impact on airport development plans, or potential leasing. However, the <br />criterion, “Proximity to existing and future residential neighborhoods”, accounts for the impact to <br />neighbors, and indirectly includes economic impact (based on proximity).