Wake County commissioners approved a landfill Monday in Garner. The countycommission three times delayed a vote to allow a construction anddemolition dump at the corner of Brownfield and Shotwell Roads.
The county said Materials Recovery met the requirements for apermit and they had to approve it, but a Garner neighborhood claims thecounty did not give it nearly enough time to build a case against puttinga dump in their backyards.
"The ordinance gives an individual company likeMaterials Recovery months to prepare in planning theirapplication and we had two weeks. We couldn'teven get an appointment with an expert in twoweeks," says landfill opponent Francine Wilkerson.
"We're getting industrial typecommercial stuff in ourneighborhood, and I'm going to wake up everymorning, sit on my front porch, have my coffeeand look at a dump," says landfill opponent Cindy Baucom.
Several residents against the Garner landfill havefiled a suit in Superior Court. They say the county's board of adjustmentfailed to give them an adequate hearing toprotest the landfill.
If a judge agrees, Monday's vote would be null andvoid and the process will start all over again.
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