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MEMO TO: Mayor and Ci FROM: Clerk-Admini DATE: November 30, SUBJECT: WASTE MANAGEMENT BOARD PRELIMINARY AREA FOR WASTE PROCESSING FACILITY - FRIDLEY (SITE A) Attached please find a packet of material supplied by the Minnesota Waste Management Board regarding the process for identifying preliminary areas for hazardous waste processing facilities, and maps showing those areas identified in the Metro Region and Fridley Sites A and B. You will note that the Fridley Site A encompasses a large area running from Highway 10 south along University Avenue to 73rd and west along 73rd Avenue to the Mounds View City border. Also attached is a packet of material supplied by the City of Fridley regarding the position taken by the City of Fridl--!y with respect to the identification of hazardous waste processing facility sites in their city. The City of Mounds View should be particularly concerned about the site identified as Fridley Site A which abutts our westerly border on Pleasant View Drive from County Road H-2 to County Road H. This site, or at least part of it, appears to be in nonconformance with the factors for selection of Metro proposed areas as outlined by the Waste Management Board and included on a sheet in your packet of material. This listing indicates that the Waste Manage- ment Board prefers areas: 1) "that avoid residential areas (either by having a large industrial area, scattered residential development, or other development or open space between residential and industrial development)." 2) "that offer some protection over that designed into a facility" to the areas, soils, and aquifer conditions. 3) "which have conditions which would protect wells and water supply." 4) "which would avoid natural parks and historic sites." With respect to Fridley Site A it can be easily stated that all of these factors are not complied with by at least part of that site, namely, the area running east to west from University Avenue to the Mounds View border. It is staff's position that these factors are not complied with because the area dirPrtty Avenue +o the nor" of 7 ...... Iu iv�rti,c aa� is entirely residential development, Rice Creek runs directly south of the site which ultimately runs into the Mississippi River and provides a large source of water for the Metropolitan Area, and the Rice Creek area provides a major natural area and park to all of the communities it runs through, including the City of Fridley.