SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO : City Will Examine County Landfill Draft
The Planning Commission on Tuesday will review a draft environmental report for a plan intended to guide future development of the county’s Prima Deshecha Landfill.
About a third of the 1,530-acre landfill site sits within the southeast corner of the city, south of the Ortega Highway. Parts of the landfill, in use since 1976, are also in an unincorporated area and in San Clemente.
City officials are recommending that the environmental report be changed because part of the landfill, as proposed, would eventually be visible from houses to the north and northwest.
The city is also concerned about the county’s analysis on how the landfill plan will affect Ortega Highway traffic in five years.
One proposal the Planning Commission will consider is to ask the county to take responsibility for the widening of Ortega Highway east from Interstate 5.
The meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. at City Hall, 32400 Paseo Adelanto.
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