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Home My WebLink AboutAGENDA REPORT 1995 1004 CC REG ITEM 08DTO: FROM: DATE: SUBJECT: BACKGROUND ITEM • AGENDA REPORT CITY OF MOORPARK Honorable City Council Jill R. Myers, Solid Waste Coordinator September 27, 1995 (CC Meeting of October 4, 1995) Review and Comment on the County's Preliminary Draft Countywide Integrated Waste Management Plan ( CIWMP) On August 22, 1995 the Ventura County Board of Supervisors approved the release of the County's Preliminary Draft Countywide Integrated Waste Management Plan ( CIWMP) for the mandated 45 -day public review. The Plan consists of a Summary Plan and a Siting Element prepared by the County, in compliance with the Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 (AB 939), for local adoption. The County prepared the plans in consultation with the Waste Commission in its capacity as the AB 939 Local Task Force (LTF) and the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) . The Waste Commission also established a Community Advisory Committee (CAC) to work with TAC in the development of landfill siting criteria for the Siting Element. The Summary Plan summarizes the Source Reduction and Recycling Elements (SRRE) from each of the Ventura County jurisdictions. Staff has reviewed this document and has no additional information to include, only editing suggestions. The Siting Element has been reviewed by the City's planning staff. In analyzing the landfill siting criteria, staff considered the criteria as if applied to a potential landfill site to determine possible impacts. Attached you will find the Community Development Department's comments. Comments on the Preliminary Draft CIWMP are due to the County by October 6, 1995. The County is required to respond in writing to all comments received during the review period. The documents will then be amended as appropriate and the plans will be recirculated for local adoption. The regulations state that the CIWMP is deemed locally approved when it has been adopted by a majority of the cities representing a majority of the incorporated population and has been approved by the Board of Supervisors. Following local approval, the plans will be submitted to the California Integrated Waste Management Board for approval. A copy of the County's Preliminary Draft Countywide Integrated Waste Management Plan is available in the City Council office area. ti Honorable City Council Preliminary Draft CIWMP October 4, 1995 Page 2 RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends that the City Council concur with staff's recommendation and authorize staff to forward the City's comments on the Preliminary Draft Countywide Integrated Waste Management Plan to the County Solid Waste Management Department. Attachment ' a n+ CITY OF MOORPARK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT MEMORANDUM TO: Jill Rubin Meyers FROM: Deborah S. Traffenstedt, Senior Planner 1-5t DATE: September 22, 1995 SUBJECT: VENTURA COUNTY INTEGRATED WASTE MANAGEMENT PLAN - COUNTYWIDE SITING ELEMENT (CSE) PRELIMINARY DRAFT As requested, I have reviewed the Draft CSE. My review included consideration of a potential Dry Canyon Landfill, since it has been discussed in the past, and the property is north of the Moorpark Area of Interest and the site access would be through Moorpark (see attached map which shows Dry Canyon location and potential access routes). The Dry Canyon site was not eliminated by the Pass /Fail criteria. Moving then to the Second Phase siting criteria, the site would most likely not be eliminated by the secondary criteria (due to past mining disturbance of the site), allowing an application to be filed for a conditional use permit for development of a landfill at the site. The third stage of the siting process requires the landfill proponent to assess the issues addressed by the Evaluation Criteria. According to the Draft CSE, this assessment may take place during the environmental review of the site (i.e., environmental impact report assessment). The only existing Evaluation Criteria that could probably be applicable to a Dry Canyon landfill site are: water quality (only if the Fox Canyon Aquifer would be impacted), air quality (only if emissions in Moorpark /Simi Valley air region are cumulatively adverse or waste transport distance exceeds the criterion), and potential proximity impacts to Happy Camp Regional Park. To ensure that the CSE Evaluation Criteria are consistent with an analysis that should be done for the environmental impact report, both the Land Use and Transportation Evaluation Criteria should be strengthened. The CSE does not currently encompass all of the significant impact criteria contained within CEQA. Appendix G of the CEQA Guidelines sets forth certain categories of environmental effects that the Resources Secretary has determined are normally considered significant. Two CEQA significant effect criteria, which are missing from the Draft CSE siting criteria, are: 1) Conflict with adopted environmental plans and community goals; and 2) Cause a traffic increase that is substantial in relation to existing street traffic load and capacity. 1 oobo%3 The analysis of a conflict with adopted environmental plans and community goals includes review of General Plan goals and policies. In addition, court decisions have determined that a jurisdiction must make a finding of consistency with the general plan prior to approval of a conditional use permit. The General Plan Guidelines (Governor's Office of Planning and Research) provides a general rule for consistency determinations as follows: "An action, program or project is consistent with the general plan if, considering all its aspects, it will further the objectives and policies of the general plan and not obstruct their attainment." The Draft CSE proposes to restrict the General Plan consistency review to less than what is required for the CEQA analysis, Conditional use permit approval findings, and General Plan Guidelines. For example, Page 4 -16 of the Draft CSE identifies that because of the difficulties in requiring conformance with all General Plan goals and policies, there was a decision to use a criterion which limits a General Plan consistency determination to land use designation consistency only (based on the Public Resources Code Section 41702 definition of consistency). Since Waste Treatment and Disposal is an allowed use with a conditional use permit in County open space, rural residential, and general industrial zones; a finding of land use designation consistency could be made for any landfill proposed in open space, rural residential, and general industrial zones. In regard to transportation /circulation, the Draft CSE identifies that the primary concerns with transportation issues center around economics, resource conservation, and negative impacts on receptors of concern located along or in close proximity to the access route. Three criteria are then included for average grade of access road, negative impacts on receptors of concern within 1,000 feet of the access route to the site from the nearest freeway exit, and waste transport distance (with sites under 10 miles identified as most desirable). These three criteria are important, but none address significant traffic increases /congestion as required for the CEQA analysis. During a previous review of draft siting criteria, I had recommended that there should be a criterion which considers the locally adopted level -of- service standard for intersections, or at a minimum the Ventura County Congestion Management Plan standard. For Moorpark, level -of- service "C" is required to be maintained, or for roadways and interchanges already operating at less than level - of- service "C ", the system performance objective is to maintain or improve the current level of service (General Plan Circulation Element Policy 2.1). Also, a level -of- service degradation of one level or greater attributable to a project is considered significant, requiring mitigation (City Traffic Study Guidelines). Since the Congestion Management Plan level -of- service standard is "E ", the City would be in a better position, to ensure that a substantial traffic increase is not found to be acceptable, if the locally adopted level -of- service standard for intersections is used as an evaluation criterion. 2 f,1 )t) ;44 To summarize, consider recommending a revised Planning /Land Use evaluation criterion and a new Transportation /Circulation criterion as follows: E. Planning /Land Use 1. Land Use - This criterion should be revised to expand the required General Plan consistency analysis to encompass the CEQA significance analysis requirements and the "General Rule" in the General Plan Guidelines. F. Transportation /Circulation 4. 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