North County
Voices were raised in anger and frustration Friday over the county’s plans to open three new trash dumps in rural areas of North County as the county Planning Commission took more than two hours of testimony on the issue.
Irate residents of the Fallbrook, Pala and Warner Springs area filled the county hearing room to protest plans to redesignate areas near their homes as county landfills and to berate county staff members for hurried and incomplete responses to their concerns.
Commissioners responded by delaying a vote on the county-sponsored landfill proposals until Aug. 31.
The delay will push back a final decision by the County Board of Supervisors until at least October.
At issue are a proposed 416-acre landfill site off Aspen Road northeast of Fallbrook, a 511-acre site in Blue Canyon northwest of Warner Springs near Sunshine Summit, and a 280-acre site in Gregory Canyon in the Pala-Pauma Valley area. All three sites brought unanimous opposition from nearby residents, who complained that urban areas that generate most of the garbage should find the solution within their coastal communities, not carry the problem inland.
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