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The Cobb County Commissioners finally killed this deal and denied the Bankhead Transfer Station their heavy industrial rezoning. We stopped them from dumping household trash in our neighborhood because we forced them to listen. Keep watching this place because we will not tolerate any more attempts to poison our community.

May 13, 2012

Stop Bankhead Transfer Station Rezoning

Stop Bankhead Transfer Station Rezoning

🏆 Won — 1,110 supporters Verified

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Started by Legacy Cares 14 years, 8 months ago

**There is a new online petition - please click on the link below.

New Petition: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/notrashtransferstation

The new online petition has been created to ask Cobb Commissioners to 'VoteNO' on a proposed settlement to allowBTS to accept
150,000 tons of waste each year in our community.
2012 PETITION

This petition is to stop the Bankhead Transfer Station’s proposed rezoning and land use permit application. Bankhead Transfer Station, located in Mableton, Georgia, on Veterans Memorial Highway, applied with Cobb County to change their zoning and land use permit from “general commercial” – which allows them to transfer building trash and other materials to their facility for sorting – to a designation of “heavy industrial” – which will allow them to bring in household trash and any other materials they choose to sort at the facility - without any care or concern for our neighboring community, our families, or our health. Please join us in saying "no" to this rezoning and land use permit application. The Cobb County Board of Commissioners will vote on the Bankhead Transfer Station rezoning petition at 9:00 a.m. during its February 21, 2012 meeting in the Board of Commissioners Meeting Room located at 100 Marietta Street, just off the Marietta Square. Please sign our petition and please come to the meeting to say no to the Bankhead Transfer Station’s application. We need to ensure that our collective voices are heard to protect our community.

Updates

Reached 1,000 supporters

February 24, 2012

February 2, 2012

Cobb County commissioners think they can sneak this industrial dump past us while we are busy working and raising our families. They are dead wrong if they think we will let them destroy our neighborhood for the sake of corporate profit. Stay angry because they are ignoring our health and safety until we force them to listen.

Reached 100 supporters

January 18, 2012

6 Comments

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Sarah Edwards
14 years ago Featured

We already have enough traffic and noise on veterans memorial. turning this into a heavy industrial dump site is just going to ruin our property values and make the air smell awful. keep it out.

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Linda Fox
14 years ago Featured

Mableton deserves better than this. no one wants a dump in their backyard.

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Jason Yang
14 years ago Featured

this rezoning is a joke. keep it general commercial and stop trying to expand at the expense of our neighborhood health.

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Mike Turner
14 years ago Featured

150,000 tons of trash?? are you kidding me? that's way too much for a residential area. do not let this happen.

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Brenda Shepherd
14 years ago Featured

so tired of them ignoring us. listen to the people who actually live here and say no to this.

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David Yamamoto
14 years ago Featured

THEY WANT TO BRING IN HOUSEHOLD TRASH NOW? absolutely not. the smell alone will be unbearable for every family living nearby.