The public may wish to testify before P&Z on the 8th, 6 pm, Ada County Court House. While P&Z has no authority other than to make a recommendation to the AC Commissioners, I feel it is worthwhile to have P&Z go on the record. Frankly, I think it’s to their advantage, too. Yes, it’s time to shake things up at the County and man up. Doing the right thing is never the wrong thing, despite advice to the contrary.

More than a year after approving a trash-recycling energy plant development, Green Bay aldermen have revoked a permit for the controversial project.

Several aldermen said they felt developer Oneida Seven Generations Corp. had misled the city about the proposed plant’s pollution and public health hazards.

“As time went on, things changed drastically,” said Alderman Tom DeWane, president of the City Council.

But neighboring residents and others later picketed and protested the development repeatedly, arguing that the developer had concealed how much the 60,000-square-foot plant would create air pollution and jeopardize public health.

Opponents packed the City Council chambers Tuesday and urged aldermen to revoke the permit.

Aldermen voted to conduct an inquiry into the permit approval after hearing repeated accusations that the city was deceived about the plant, including its smokestacks and emissions.

The city Plan Commission heard four hours of testimony Oct. 3 before voting to recommend against revoking the permit. But members of the council overruled that recommendation Tuesday in voting to rescind the permit.

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20121016/GPG0101/121016071/City-Council-revokes-permit-trash-recycling-energy-plant?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CGPG-News&nclick_check=1

http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/articles/smoke_598452.html

The speed limit is 25mph. If they want to drive 45mph just simply go to Hill Road Parkway and leave our neighborhood in peace.

LandfillUser has a point: EVERYONE in Ada County will be effected. Emissions don’t hang out in one place. Also, to do a waste to energy facility CORRECTLY is EXPENSIVE. Ask any WTE facility director. The whole county will pay for this debacle. Also for Ullman to try to discredit a committed and organized group based on where they live is crazy.
Crazy I say….simply crazy.

Of course, there were houses up in the Dry Creek Valley before 1972 and the landfill. Not many, true. But more importantly, hay fields, many which are still there, and aren’t a good landing pad for dioxins.

Citizens for safe Idaho? Give me a break.

If you were so concerned about safety then you wouldn’t be driving your SUVs at 70 mph up and down Pierce Park Road or Seamans Gulch Road or Cartwright Road.

Hey, Halloween is coming up, you might want to avoid cutting through on Harrison Blvd to Cartwright on your way home to your fantasy life suburb.