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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL CONSIDERATION Agenda Section: 2. <br /> STAFF REPORT Report Number: 93-490WS <br /> 111111,01MOS AGENDA SESSION DATE May 3, 1993 Report Date: 4-29-93 <br /> DISPOSITION <br /> Item Description: <br /> Discussion of EQC Recommendation Regarding Recycling Dumpster Enclosures <br /> Administrator's Review/Recommendation: <br /> - No comments to supplement this report <br /> - Comments attached. <br /> Explanation/Summary (attach supplement sheets as necessary.) <br /> SUMMARY; <br /> In June of 1990, the City Council passed an ordinance that requires that all dumpsters in the City be kept <br /> within an enclosure. Since the passage of the ordinance, several apartment and business buildings have <br /> established recycling programs which have involved setting out a separate dumpster. Many of these recycling <br /> dumpsters have not been placed in an enclosure. There has been a concern on the part of both staff and the <br /> Environmental Quality Commission that if the City requires enclosures for recycling dumpsters, these <br /> buildings will discontinue their recycling programs. Besides the cost of the construction, there are also <br /> concerns regarding the loss of parking spaces. <br /> This issue was discussed by the Environmental Quality Commission at length at their last two meetings. <br /> During the course of those discussions, the EQC members realized that this matter is only part of a larger <br /> issue - namely, the lack of recycling programs at many apartment buildings in the City. It is the <br /> recommendation of the EQC that the Council place a one-year moratorium on the enforcement of the <br /> enclosure ordinance (with respect to recycling dumpsters) so that the EQC can complete an investigation of <br /> the City's options regarding multi-family recycling. At the end of the one year moratorium, the EQC will <br /> present the Council with a recommendation concerning both multi-family recycling in general and the <br /> enclosure ordinance in particular. <br /> (1),?.0a dL& orz ) <br /> Carla Asleson <br /> Recycling/Code Enforcement <br /> RECOMMENDATION; <br /> Staff is looking for Council opinion regarding the recommended moratorium on the enforcement of recycling <br /> enclosures. • <br />