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response to market demands for more housing. Landfill Vicinty The Waste Disposal Engineering (WDE) landfill lies to the north of Bunker Hills Boulevard and West of Hanson Boulevard. It should be distinguished from the South Andover tire storage and hazardous waste storage site · which lies about ½ mile south of WDE, iust south of Bunker Hills Boulevard. WDE is located on roughly 100 acres in the SW l/q of Section 27 in Andover, began commercial operation around 1965 on an already existing local dump site. At that time considerable residential development in the vicinity of the site was already in existence and undergoing expansion. Land use tabulations for 1970 reveal established strip development along Andover Boulevard immediately north of the landfill as well as along Crosstown Boulevard to the west. Of the nearly subdivisions, Red Oaks Manor just to the southwest accounted for the vast majority of the 77 high density housing units within 1/2 mile (Zones 1 & 2) of the landfill. Proportionate development values for Zones 1 and 2 in 1970 were less than 50% of those for the outlying Zones 3 and q, which included the rapidly developing northern fringe of Coon Rapids as well as a sizeable portion of Bunker Hills Regional Park. Since this is a ,-~unty regional, not local, facility, it's acreage is considered as .,,ndevelopable." However, during the 1970 to 1978 period proportionate development increases in Zones 1 and 2 actually exceeded increases for the outlying zones by 50% - as housing in Red Oaks Manor continued to expand in the direction of the landfill, and other smaller subdivisions such as Shady Knoll, west of the landfill, and Hartfiel's Estates, to the northeast, were developed. Trends in proportionate development increases during the 1978 to 198z; period tended to equalize for all zones. By 1984, about 2 years after landfill closure, overall proporti.onate development values for Zones 1 and 2 did remain somewhat lower than in the outlying zones. However, there is no evidence that development in the close proximity to the landfill was particularly inhibited with respect to general development trends in the area. In fact, continued housing construction is ongoing in the area just to the southeast of the closed landfill across Hanson Boulevard.