Mary Edwards
“It’s extraordinarily important. You are making this a regional landfill. The San Fernando Valley will be getting trash from everywhere in the region. They are putting it much too close to the residents.”
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AGE: 68
HOME: Granada Hills
POSITION: Officer, North Valley Coalition
LATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Organized an effort that collected 2,000 signatures in opposition to a proposed zone change that would allow Sunshine Canyon Landfill to expand into 250 acres in the city of Los Angeles. Edwards also rallied a standing-room-only crowd at a public hearing on the zone change. Edwards is speaking to community groups and enlisting business owners in the fight to an expansion of the landfill, which she said could increase the tonnage dumped at the landfill from 9,000 tons per day to 14,500 tons per day, also bringing hundreds of additional trucks to the north Valley.
GOALS FOR 1999: Persuade the Planning Commission and the City Council to reject the zone change for the landfill expansion, arguing that would put the dump within 1,700 feet of residences and create one of the largest landfill operations in the region, to the detriment of the environment and people who live in the north San Fernando Valley.
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