Tonight is the night! Although the Planning Commission may well hold the record open after tonight's hearing, or may even continue the hearing to allow Waste Management to rebut all the information expansion opponents will submit, we can't count on that.
You need to submit your comments NOW.
Many of you have already written terrific letters. I have been privileged to read some of them, and I am proud that our little Stop the Dump Coalition is associated with each of you. We have been blessed with terrific partners to work with.
If you have been putting off your comment, why not send it now? The hearing won't end before 9:00 PM I'm sure, so you have plenty of time! Send your note to: fridayk@co.yamhill.or.us.
Some points to raise:
- If you personally or your business may be impacted by an even huger landfill right on McMinnville's door (2.3 miles from Lowe's), say so.
- If you or your employees or customers must drive past the dump to reach you, tell the PC what that is like.
- If you value farmland, point out that (1) the dump is not a farm! (remember that the hearing tonight is to rezone the dump to farmland, which is the first step in allowing it to expand) and that (2) converting the dump to fictional farmland in order to convert adjacent actual farmland to a dump is a perversion of Oregon's land use law.
- If you value the environment, raise issues of water protection, litter, road damage, noise and light pollution, and of course odor. The reason the dump is allowed to stink (and emit other noxious gases) is that our air is so clean! Conundrums abound.
Thanks for all your support. We look forward to seeing some of you and your friends and colleagues at the hearing tonight and to read your comments in the PC file.
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