Who conducted the site selection process?
Sacramento GreenCycle is a Sacramento Regional Solid Waste Authority (SWA) project. The project team conducted more than 20 stakeholder interviews and received feedback and site suggestions. From this list of stakeholders, a Project Advisory Committee (PAC) was formed. Project team members and the PAC developed siting criteria and evaluated potential sites against these criteria to develop a short list of locations for the new facility. • What were the initial site considerations? The initial considerations were buffer distance from existing and potential future urban residential development, the size of the site, whether sites were already publicly owned, proximity to roadways, existing land use along the likely access road to the site, the presence of existing immobile populations along the likely access, whether the facility could be co-located at an existing potentially compatible public-sector infrastructure facility, the proximity of the site to the urbanized area where the major
