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A request that agricultural land alongside California 76 be rezoned as a landfill site was initiated Thursday by Waste Management of California, which owns 1,600 acres along the San Luis Rey River, about 3 miles east of Interstate 15.
The request, a precursor to a general-plan amendment that the company hopes to receive, was filed with the San Diego County Department of Planning and Land Use.
The county’s public works department has already sought a general-plan amendment in order to further study that same site--as well as others in North County--as a possible landfill. But the county’s request was rejected by the Board of Supervisors last year as premature because the county hasn’t decided where, among several possible sites in North County, a new landfill should be situated.
Waste Management officials said that, rather than wait for the county to chose its site, it wanted to move ahead with the process of privately seeking a general plan amendment for its land, thereby saving time should its so-called Gregory Canyon site be approved by the county.
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