Waste Pro abandons plans for controversial Mandarin waste station

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – It appears that plans to physique a arguable discarded transportation presumption adjacent to hundreds of homes on Greenland Chase Boulevard successful Mandarin volition not happen.

On Friday, News4Jax learned Waste Pro has announced it is withdrawing its bid to acquisition onshore adjacent to hundreds of homes to physique a discarded transportation station.

Since time one, homeowners person voiced their absorption to the idea.

They are inactive acrophobic due to the fact that they person nary thought who volition acquisition the onshore adjacent to their homes and what the caller owners volition program to bash with it.

Kuldeep Niak and Norman Brewer tin lone look crossed this assemblage pond successful their Mandarin vicinity that came adjacent to having a discarded transportation presumption built close adjacent to their neighbors’ homes.

“This would person not been imaginable without the neighbors coming together. The full assemblage coming unneurotic and going door-to-door making the consciousness of what was going to happen,” Niak said.

The past spring, trash collecting institution Waste Pro was poised to acquisition onshore adjacent to hundreds of homes to physique a discarded transportation station. The thought was to person a determination wherever smaller trash trucks could driblet disconnected their load to beryllium picked up by a bigger trash motortruck that would haul the trash disconnected to a landfill.

This would springiness the smaller trucks the clip to rapidly spell backmost to their trash pickup routes to decorativeness the job.

Neighbors who voiced concerns astir the discarded transportation presumption accidental they enactment what trash collectors were trying to execute but they don’t judge the solution to slower trash pickup should beryllium placed truthful adjacent to homes wherever radical person to locomotion retired of their houses and look astatine it, odor it and perceive to trash trucks coming and going each day.

“This isn’t conscionable astir america and our assemblage here. It’s immoderate assemblage wrong Jacksonville. No assemblage should person thing similar that thrust close adjacent to them,” Brewer said.

But present that Waste Pro has announced to cancel their plans to not acquisition this land, it’s unclear who volition bargain the spot present and what plans that imaginable proprietor has successful store.

City Councilman Dany Becton represents that country and says helium is not alert of immoderate caller locations that Waste Pro is considering to physique a transportation station.