Thu Mar 11 2010
by Emily Canning-Dean
Reporter
Twinsburg Township -- While the Twinsburg mayor has asked township officials to dump plans for a local trash transfer station to quadruple its operations, Macedonia's mayor says he trusts the township will keep an eye on things at the facility.
Township manager Rob Kagler said Dover-based Kimble Transfer and Recycling Co., which owns a 16,000-square-foot refuse transfer station on Chamberlin Road, has submitted an application to the Board of Zoning Appeals requesting to increase several facets of its operations -- including increasing the limit on the solid waste it processes from 450 tons per day to 1,800 tons per day, and its truck traffic from 86 vehicles to 317.
President Keith Kimble did not return calls for comment.
Kagler said officials from Kimble are scheduled to go before the Board of Zoning Appeals July 14, when they will request that granted permits be altered to reflect the increased trash processing.
The township's Board of Zoning Appeals' decision would be binding, and would not require approval from Trustees, according to Kagler.
Specifically, Kagler said Kimble is requesting that four conditional uses be amended.
Kimble has asked the BZA to change the limit of solid waste taken into the facility from 450 tons per day to 1,800 tons per day, an increase of 400 percent; to change the limit of recyclables taken in from 60 tons per day to 250 tons per day, a more than 400 percent increase; to increase the number of trucks permitted in the facility from 86 to 317, an increase of nearly 370 percent; and to change the hours of operation from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. to 7 p.m.
BZA member Robert Beck said June 29 he has not had an opportunity to review Kimble's request.
"I really can't form an opinion until I have had the chance to review all of the information," he said.
Twinsburg Mayor Katherine Procop said she would like to see the request denied. She said she thinks increasing these limits would have a negative affect on the city.
"An increase in volume at the facility will cause a considerable increase in traffic," Procop said in a June 4 letter to the township. "This, I feel, will result in increased traffic noise in the surrounding residential areas as well as congestion in the arteries to the facility. Extended hours of operation will impact our residents beginning at 1 a.m. if approved."
Macedonia Mayor Don Kuchta said he does not oppose the requested increases because the transfer station is under enough scrutiny from the township -- and that conditions could be reversed again by the township if problems arise.
He also said he thought the expanded hours could ultimately reduce traffic.
"If running the trucks at 1 a.m. means less of them at times when there is higher traffic, that could be an advantage," he said.
E-mail: ecanning@recordpub.com
Phone: 330-688-0088 ext. 3172
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