**UPDATE: The Commission meeting to vote on the proposed settlement has been changed to March 19, 2013 at 9 am.**
The Bankhead “TRASH” Transfer Station has raised its ugly head again and has found its way back on the Cobb County Commission agenda for February 19, 2013 to be approved to accept 150,000 tons of household waste per year in our community. As you may recall, the commission voted unanimously, with one abstention, last summer to deny BTS's zoning and land use applications. The company’s attorney appealed the decision. In Cobb County, all filed cases are required to go to mediation. The mediation of this case took place in December 2012 and the county agreed to settle this matter by essentially allowing the Bankhead Transfer Station to bring trash back to our community. Please sign our on-line petition asking Cobb County Commissioners to reject this settlement offer and to vote no to allowing BTS to accept municipal trash in our community.
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February 10, 2013
The petition has now reached five hundred signatures. This level of engagement reflects the depth of our collective concern regarding the proposed settlement.
Reached 500 supporters
February 8, 2013
February 6, 2013
The feedback I have received from residents confirms that our concerns regarding the proposed settlement are widely shared across the community. I am currently preparing formal correspondence to deliver these objections directly to the Commissioners before their next vote.
Reached 100 supporters
February 3, 2013
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We dont need 150,000 tons of trash in our backyard. Who decided this was a good idea? Leave it alone!
Keep the trash out of our community. This settlement is a total joke and everyone knows it.
Cobb County commissioners need to listen to the people who actually live here. Stop selling us out
Are you kidding me? We already voted this down. Why is it back AGAIN?
Ridiculous! Nobody wants this here. Do the right thing and vote NO on the 19th.
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**UPDATE: The Commission meeting to vote on the proposed settlement has been changed to March 19, 2013 at 9 am.**
The Bankhead “TRASH” Transfer Station has raised its ugly head again and has found its way back on the Cobb County Commission agenda for February 19, 2013 to be approved to accept 150,000 tons of household waste per year in our community. As you may recall, the commission voted unanimously, with one abstention, last summer to deny BTS's zoning and land use applications. The company’s attorney appealed the decision. In Cobb County, all filed cases are required to go to mediation. The mediation of this case took place in December 2012 and the county agreed to settle this matter by essentially allowing the Bankhead Transfer Station to bring trash back to our community. Please sign our on-line petition asking Cobb County Commissioners to reject this settlement offer and to vote no to allowing BTS to accept municipal trash in our community.
Updates
February 10, 2013
The petition has now reached five hundred signatures. This level of engagement reflects the depth of our collective concern regarding the proposed settlement.
Reached 500 supporters
February 8, 2013
February 6, 2013
The feedback I have received from residents confirms that our concerns regarding the proposed settlement are widely shared across the community. I am currently preparing formal correspondence to deliver these objections directly to the Commissioners before their next vote.
Reached 100 supporters
February 3, 2013
6 Comments
my kids play at the park right down the road from there. cant imagine the smell and the trucks. just NO.
We dont need 150,000 tons of trash in our backyard. Who decided this was a good idea? Leave it alone!
Keep the trash out of our community. This settlement is a total joke and everyone knows it.
Cobb County commissioners need to listen to the people who actually live here. Stop selling us out
Are you kidding me? We already voted this down. Why is it back AGAIN?
Ridiculous! Nobody wants this here. Do the right thing and vote NO on the 19th.
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my kids play at the park right down the road from there. cant imagine the smell and the trucks. just NO.