Agenda - Council - 03/23/1982 - Laserfiche WebLink

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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I - 2 - The county has proposed a 1lO-acre fill area and 240-acre surrounding buffer (both on and off site). Figure 1 shows the site location and proposed fill and buffer areas. Access to the site would be either from Bunker Lake Blvd. on the north or through a buffer strip extending south to State Hwy. 242. Final use for the site is for an active recreation area, in keeping with the master plan for Bunker Hills Park. PROJECT REVIEW Criteria and guidelines are provided in the WMA against which the Council must review the county landfill inventories. Each site must be evaluated for con- sistency with the criteria and policies in the Council's Solid Waste Policy Plan and with respect to the statutory criteria. These include: o Land use and land use controls; o Existing and future development patterns; o Environmental impacts; o Protection of agriculture ~nd natural resources; Transportation and other services and facilities appropriate to land disposal~ o Patterns of solid waste generation; 0 0 The facility's proposed final use; and The quality of other potential sites. Analysis of the proposed site with respect to these eight areas follows. Land Use and Land Use Controls Located on the proposed site are the Anoka County Highway Maintenance Shop, the Bunker Prairie Lookout Tower, a diseased tree reclamation and burn site, and two rifle ranges. Portions of the site are part of Bunker Hills Park but are separated from the bulk of the park by the Burlington Northern Railway at the eastern boundary of the site. A major transmission line traverses the southern portion of the buffer. Approximately two-thirds of the site is a mature pine plantation, the remainder of the site is open. There are 35 dwelling units located within a half mile of the site. All are west or south of the site. Two small subdivisions are located respectively northwest and southwest of the site but further than a half mile from the site. Land uses west and south of the site are buffered by on-site vegetation and by the Yamaha Corporation testing center. In Coon Rapids, zoning in the general vicinity is low-density residential except for the test center. In Andover, the area north of the site is zoned for general business and industry. This area has some industrial development but is largely undeveloped.