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By MA~Y 6UGLIUZZA lflaced along the E~m Fork in COl~
Staff Writer peil.
Mayor Milburn GravJey and B~r-
FJoodins, c~ with ad~a. r~ said they recall ~a~han Maier,
cefR [and~q~s. and the point o~ in~- the ensheer for Riverchase, sayir~
l~l~r~n~.et~-~ thatal~o. Maier is aiso the engineer
whi~hmustberesolved~determino hired by Weaver tohandle the hyd-
ing ifa site on the river is-approprja.' te rological studies and permits.
for a landfall. Eastland said the city needs to be
The Carrollton City Council and certain no water would be redirected
Planning and Zoning Commission into other parts of the city if the
discussed the requests for rezoning landfill use is allowed. 13]~
and a special use permit at a work The compatibility with adjacent
session Thursday evening. The ap- uses and ~int ofaccess to the prop- PRE-RODF, O
plicant,' his representatives, area erty are concerns of not only city 1488
property owners, city department officials but also the Dallas' Gun Club.
heads and the city er~ineer from Weaver is trying to obtain access
Coppell attended the two-hour ~ the property from Sandy Lake REG. '24.!
meeting. . oad along a Texas Utilities power
Huel H. Weaver has contracted to line which bisects the gun club prop-
buy a 230-acre site contingent u~n erty, Cothran said his clients are
it being approved for use as a solid concerned about this because it
waste sanitary landfill. The land- would leave 67 acres east of the road
c~ed property is on the west bank which is used to raise cattle.
the Elm Fork of the Trinity River ' Cothran said fences have been
comer of the site touches the river, operations, allowing cattle to '
The joint work session was held escape. Also, there is a concern ab-
'because of the complexity of the outderbisflyingoutofthetruck~,and
ings on. the requests Jan. 18, but Tom. Parsons of TU Electric said,
continued the cases until Feb. 15. "We want to comply with the wishes
P&Z chainnan John Blackburn said if ofthe twocities involved, but we're
the requested information cannot be not sure what those wishes are."
obtained by then, another continua- City engineer Rusty Dyle of Cop- /~LL RESISTOL & STETSON HAND'
tion is possible, pell and Carrollton transportation
The site has been used for ex- director Don Penny expressed con-
~w~o~ ~d mU~g ~,~ and cern~ about ~ w~ar ~nd ~ ad~- EVERYTHING IN STORI~ ON
consists of several large holes, tionai truck traffic would have on
Much of the materi~ls taken from the' Sandy Lake Road, which is not a
s~te have been used as fill for .truck route in either city.
Riverchase in CoM~I. Carrollton assistant'dty engineer
"We have. no problem with the ' Tim Tumulty said the Texas Depart-
staff comments. We lmve no prob. merit of Highways and Public Trans-
leto with the Dallas Gun Club's com- portation has advised the weight
ments. It can be a win/win limit for the bridge should be posted
situation... We don't want to rush at 24,000 pOunds. '
this thing, we want to do it right. Carrollton sanitation manager
This is no get-rich-quick scheme," Attilio Corbo estimated garbage
said attorney W. illiam Blackburn~ trucks weigh 40,000 to 50,000
representing Weaver. pounds.
The gun club owns 700 acres Weaver tol~the grip the city of
which border the site on three sides Coppell garbage trucks were using
-- ~ north, west and south. -A.. the bridge to bring the city's ~carba~e
meeung was held Jan. 24 between ',:.to the Farmers Branch ~ ~
the gun club representatives and Lewisvflle.
Weaver's repres~maives. ~illiarn h Gra,v, ley told Weaver and Black-
~sO~ ~~.~~=.~.: ~ ~, :A=,s ~ ~ ~ ~e r~ Val~ntins
. ma tWo-page ~etter to seai~ tx ~lh lot Carrollton and Coppell
planner Kathy Slivers. , "-i~ ~ugh Sandy Lake Road." He
C~ty Mtmager Mike Eastland said ~ ~! the men to explore an aiterna-
understanding was thesite wo~d fi~ route off the Interstate 35E
used as valley storage once the sou hbound access road. "I
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mining amt:excavilfion operations
were-corrrplet~ to offset the fill Turn to LANDFILL, pa~e 12A