Date: Fri 24-Oct-1997

Publication: Bee

Author: ANDYG

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P&Z Approves Garbage Truck Garage

BY ANDREW GOROSKO

Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) members have approved the construction of

a garbage truck garage in an industrial zone on Barnabas Road in Hawleyville,

but have placed numerous restrictions on the project.

P&Z members October 16 granted a special exception to the zoning regulations

to P&G Sanitation to build a 13,500-square-foot garbage truck garage in an M-1

Industrial zone on the north side of Barnabas Road.

Engineer Ralph Gallagher, representing Peter Fusco of P&G Sanitation, at an

October 2 P&Z public hearing presented details on the development of Lot 7 in

the industrial subdivision.

In approving the garage application, P&Z members placed ten restrictions on

it.

P&Z members are requiring that: a Dumpster area on the site be visually

screened with evergreen vegetation to shield its view from Barnabas Road; that

parking and driveway areas be paved except for the area holding Dumpsters;

that the garage be no taller than 30 feet on its front face; that a stormwater

detention basin be able to hold 15,000 cubic feet of water; that a sign

advertising the garbage truck garage have a particular appearance, size and

location on the site and be placed away from Barnabas Road; that no topsoil be

removed; that shrubs be planted along the south side of the garage to visually

break the building's lines; that an oil-and-girt waste storage tank be only a

holding tank which doesn't discharge its contents into the ground; that

certain modifications be made to the design plan; and that garbage trucks not

be parked outdoors at night.

The garage proposed for the site will hold a maximum 15 trucks, according to

the applicant.

Mr Gallagher has said P&G Sanitation would seek to expand the garage in the

future.

At the initial installment of the public hearing in September, several

Hawleyville residents spoke in opposition to the garage proposal. They charged

that a garbage truck garage isn't a suitable or desirable use for the property

in the Hawleyville industrial area.

Hawleyville residents often have opposed commercial and industrial development

projects which they consider undesirable for their largely undeveloped section

of town.

Due to various technical deficiencies in its plans, P&G withdrew its initial

request for the garage after a public hearing in July.

Last summer, residents Jeanette and William Ferry of 58 Barnabas Road, who

live near the development site, wrote to the P&Z stating that having a garbage

truck garage in their area would pose environmental hazards. They added that

the presence of such a facility wouldn't benefit Hawleyville.

Future industrial development in Hawleyville has been a controversial topic.

Hawleyville residents recently protested plans to create more industrial

zoning along Barnabas Road in response to a local man's recent zone change

request. That applicant had wanted to build a prefabricated industrial

building for use by industrial service firms. The zone change was not granted

by the P&Z.

In 1995, Hawleyville residents staged strenuous protests over a proposal to

build a 100,000-square-foot exposition center off Route 25, claiming the

massive project didn't fit into the Hawleyville landscape. The P&Z turned down

that project.