San Joaquin County is considering relocating the Lovelace Transfer Station to get it out of the path of Manteca’s northward growth.
It is part of an overall job generation strategy to establish more business parks near the Union Pacific intermodal facility, along Airport Way and along a future extension of Roth Road to a proposed Highway 99 interchange midway between Lathrop Road and French Camp Road.
A growing share of the nation’s long distance hauling of goods involves truck trailers loaded on rail flat cars. They are taken from intermodal facilities such as the one between Manteca and Lathrop on Roth Road to cover the final distance to their destination by truck.
That makes land targeted for business park development in north Manteca strategically important as it allows for extremely short truck hauls to future distribution centers and “repackaging” or “assembly” style facilities.
Companies are already locating distribution centers in the Tracy, Lathrop, Manteca, Stockton Airport areas to take advantage of being able to serve both the Bay Area and Sacramento markets.
Generally, Manteca will be seeking to develop business parks north of the Roth Road extension and possibly also on the southern side of the extension from Union Road to Highway 99.
A new site for the transfer station would likely be in an area zoned industrial.
Manteca’s municipal solid waste is taken to the station — as well as that hauled there by companies and individuals — to be sorted before heading to the landfill or to be recycled.
The current transfer station is located roughly midway on Lovelace Road that T-intersects with Airport Way at the Amazon distribution center and in the east at Union Road.
The land in the immediate area of the transfer station is expected to be zoned residentially. As such, the two uses do not complement each other.
Roth Road’s future extension from where it now ends at Airport Way will head east and then curve to cross Union Road at a point north of the Lovelace/Union intersection. It would continue east and again curve to the south before heading east to the freeway.
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