Friday, September 10, 1999
Villagers speak up: No landfill
70 at Morrow planning meeting
BY MICHAEL D. CLARK
The Cincinnati Enquirer
MORROW — Residents urged village officials Thursday to reject a proposed landfill they claim would destroy residential property values and the community's future growth.
More than 70 landfill opponents attended a public meeting of the Morrow Planning Commission. Many told commission members they should vote against a rezoning application that would create the village's first landfill at the site of the former Alpine Ski Resort.
“We don't want a landfill in Morrow and we don't need a landfill in Warren County,” Warren Reed, president of the anti-landfill Morrow Environmental Preservation Association (MEPA), told planning officials.
The commission will vote at an undetermined date whether it will recommend to the village council the rezoning application submitted by Browning-Ferris Industries of Ohio Inc. (BFI). It operated the Bigfoot Run landfill in nearby Union Township until it reached capacity and closed in May.
BFI was recently acquired by Allied Waste Industries and is now a subsidiary of the national solid waste management company.
BFI officials at the planning commission meeting declined to comment but are scheduled to further argue their proposal at later commission meetings and in conjunction with a pending lawsuit in Warren County Common Pleas Court.
Ruth MacKenzie, chairwoman for MEPA, said community members are concerned that a landfill would harm Morrow environmentally and economically.
“It could be the downfall of the village,” Ms. MacKenzie said.
After BFI's rezoning application for expanding the Bigfoot Run site was rejected in December by Warren County Commissioners, the company sued commissioners, alleging their application was not treated fairly.
BFI then turned its full attention to rezoning 222 acres it is leasing in Morrow.
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