HomeMy WebLinkAboutpc_06 16 1992LITTLE ROCK PLANNING COMMISSION
PLANNING HEARING
MINUTES
JUNE 16,1992
12:30 P.M.
I.Roll Call and Finding of a Quorum
A Quorum was present being nine in number.
II.Approval of the May 5,1992
III.Members Present:Brad Walker
Jerilyn Nicholson
Kathleen OlesonBillPutnam
Jim VonTungeln
Joe H.Selz
Emmett Willis,Jr.
Ronald Woods
Members Absent:John McDaniel
Ramsay Ball
Diane Chachere
City 'Attorney:Ernest Sanders
June 16,1992
PLANS HEARING
ITEM NO.:1
TITLE:Arch Street Plan Amendment
~RE VEST:Change from Mining and Single
Family/Mining to Parks and Open
Space
LOCATION:South of Dixon Road on the east
side of Ironton Cutoff Road
SOURCE:Public Works Department
STAFF REPORT:
The City of Little Rock is preparing to expand the existinglandfilloffofDixonRoadortoopenanewlandfillnearby.
Currently,the Public Works staff believes that a mining area to
the east of the current site is the best site to meet the City'needs'he proposed site has been a strip mining site and thelandfillwouldreclaimtheland.
The Arkansas Department of Pollution Control and Ecology must
approve and permit all new landfills.In addition,the Federal
Environmental Protection Agency must also approve the location.
One criteria for locating or expanding a landfill is that thelocallanduseplanrecognizetheareaassuitableforalandfill
from a land use standpoint.
The existing plan,while showing "Mining and Single
Family/Mining"uses,designates this location as a good site for
expansion of the City's landfill."Park and Open Space"uses are
shown on the existing plan south of the intersection of ArchStreetPikeandDixonRoad.Additional land to the east is shownforpublicuse.The plan states that it could be to the benefitoftheCitytoacquiretheseexistingminingpitsandsurrounding
property to use as an extension of the landfill,immediately to
the west.After exhaustion of the site as a landfill,the
property could be converted to park land or other uses.The
proposed site is intended as a long range use,after the landfillisclosed.
In order for the city to acquire and use the property to the east
as a landfill,the plan must be amended to recognize the use as
Parks and Open Space.
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June 16,1992
PLANS HEARING
ITEM NO.:1 Cont.
PLANNING COMMISSION ACTION:(JUNE 16,1992)
Ron Newman,Planning Manager,reported to the Commission that the
proposed plan amendment came at the request of the Department ofPublicWorks,in regard to a planned expansion of the citylandfill.Jerry Gardner of Public Works then explained the needfortheamendmentandthatthesiteforthelandfillexpansion
would be east of the present landfill.The planning commissiondiscussedtheneedfortheexpansionandthelifeofthelandfillifexpanded.After a general discussion regarding therelationshipofthelanduseplantotheproposedlandfill,the
Commission voted to approve the plan amendment by a vote of
8 ayes,0 noes,3 absent.
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June 16,1992
PLANNING HEARING
There being no further business before the Commission,the
meeting was adjourned at 1:45 p.m.
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