Why not wait an additional 30 days before acquiring the land for the plant?

As the lead agency, the Town of Cary has a legal obligation to keep this project on track in order to meet the State’s mandate of having the plant operational by January 2011. The schedule is already so compressed that two processes -- design, which depends on land acquisition, and permitting must occur at the same time. Now that all of the Partners have agreed to the preferred site, Cary must move forward the design process in the form of land acquisition. Specifically, an additional 30 days’ delay affects the following sequence of activities, which are scheduled to be completed in full by December 2006: Selecting an engineering design firm for final design Initiating site and control surveys for preparation of site development plans and specifications > Preparing site development plans and specifications (access road; site utility roads; utility installation [water, electric, communications]; rough grading; sedimentation and erosion control; site-access control) The other process, ...  more