Move it!

Rather than spending money to replace the aging office trailer at the existing transfer station on Benson Road, voters’ association president Allison Calder is asking the county to move the facility.

“It is not in an appropriate location,” Calder told county council members at their March 10 meeting.

Calder said the current transfer station is on property with rural zoning, surrounded by park land, adjacent to an aquifer and operating under a conditional use permit rather than as an allowed use under existing zoning. She said it was time to revise zoning on the Point to create industrial zoning that would properly site uses like the transfer station, aggregate storage or staging of construction equipment.

“When executive Sidhu came to Point Roberts we discussed the need to revise our subarea plan, our comprehensive plan and codes,” Calder said. “Mr. Sidhu said ‘think big’ so that in another 20 years, instead of saying ‘what were they thinking’ people are saying ‘wow.’ Let’s have some industrial zoning in Point Roberts and then we can spend money on infrastructure for a transfer station in an appropriate location.”