Waste Industries USA Inc. has formally withdrawn its request to put a solid-waste transfer station on a site off West Mountain Street in Kernersville, WGHP/FOX8 reported last night.
The town planning board had been scheduled to hear the request on Aug. 9, after postponing consideration from the board's July 12 meeting.
More recently, the town's planning staff had reversed course and called for the town to reject the project.
Town planners had initially supported the Waste Industries request.
But Jeff Hatling, the town's community development director, said that the about-face happened because the company had not done enough to explain its project to people and landowners nearby.
Most of the site that Waste Industries had picked was already zoned industrial, but opposition arose from residential neighborhoods nearby.
The site occupies about 18 acres. It is the former site of Stock Components.
Residents worried that the industry would bring odors and heavy truck traffic. Company officials said that the site would be kept clean and would not have odors or vermin to bother neighbors.
WGHP/FOX8 reported that the opposition from the town planning staff was a major factor in the company's decision to drop the request.
The company, based in Raleigh, had said it would be expanding operations in the Piedmont Triad area.
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