Henrico County:
“A new recycling center that worried residents and parents
in western Henrico County will be built, but with changes to the original plan.
The center will be near Pemberton Elementary School, Harry F. Byrd Middle
School and West End Montessori School.
Neighbors were worried about the facility’s lights, impact
on wildlife, noise and, perhaps most of all, traffic. The Pemberton Elementary
School PTA sent its president to talk to the Board of Supervisors, in part
about the traffic on Quioccasin Road. The board approved the recycling center
last week, despite residents’ reservations. The center — an unmanned facility
that is essentially a group of Dumpsters — will be on Shane Road, just off
Quioccasin Road. The gated facility will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. It’s
intended as a place for residents of multi-family housing who lack curbside
recycling pickup to drop off their household recyclables.
County officials have lowered the height proposed for the
lights, reworked the grading of the site to limit the removal of vegetation,
pledged to make sure the noise isn’t excessive and closely studied the traffic
situation. And county officials point out that all of this is far better than
any private development of the lot, an idea that has been floated in the past. Recent
renovations at a pair of area fire stations squeezed out recycling drop-offs
that had been housed at the stations. The proposed center, next to one of those
fire stations, would replace the centers that were lost.”
~Writes Ted Strong of the Richmond Times Dispatch
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