Oakland County's Materials Management Plan must include a facility-siting process. Current planning materials describe pathways under which facilities can be found consistent with the plan, including a pathway where a proposal meets minimum criteria and then obtains host-community approval or satisfies supplemental siting criteria when approval is unavailable. The facilities potentially involved include recycling, composting, transfer, anaerobic-digestion, and disposal facilities. This creates a genuine tradeoff between local consent and the ability to develop infrastructure serving a broader planning area. A regional facility can provide a real public benefit and still impose most of its local effects on one community. The process needs a credible rule for when those interests conflict.