Council May Oppose Recycling Center
For the fourth time in recent months, City Council members may ask the county to reject a project just outside the city’s borders.
Moorpark council members will decide tonight whether to send Ventura County planners a letter opposing an Oxnard company’s plan to create a recycling center on part of the old Egg City site north of town.
In late 1996, council members took a similar stand against three other projects, all on county-administered land, that they said would have a significant impact on Moorpark. All three projects--the expansion of a local gravel mine and two separate proposals to build golf driving ranges in the Tierra Rejada valley--were approved by Ventura County supervisors despite the city’s requests.
The proposed recycling center has already drawn fire from neighbors who worry about pollution and traffic coming from the site.
Moorpark city planners share those traffic concerns. In a staff report, planners said the environmental impact documents for the project underestimate the recycling center’s potential effect on Moorpark traffic. The center would sit just west of California 23, which is already crowded with trucks. That road, in turn, heads straight into downtown Moorpark.
City planners have recommended that the county limit the number of truck and employee trips to and from the site if the project is approved.
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