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• At least one hauler provides both residential and commercial service with the same vehicle. If that hauler was not awarded a residential district its vehicles would continue to impact those residential streets it uses to access commercial accounts, assuming it continued to provide commercial service. • If a hauler(s) not currently providing residential or commercial service in the City was awarded a district under a competitive procurement, that hauler might also compete for commercial accounts with a resulting increase in commercial trash truck impacts. In conducting an analysis similar to the one proposed for the current project, the R3 Consulting Group projected the impacts of trash and recycling trucks on the City of Fort Collins' streets using the applied and allowable ESAL analysis. The summary of findings in the R3 report includes the following impacts related to street maintenance. • Trash trucks are typically the heaviest vehicles regularly operating on residential (local) streets and are a major contributor to wear and tear on those streets. • The most significant step the City can take to minimize trash truck street maintenance impacts is to reduce the number of trash truck miles traveled on the City's streets. • In general, all other factors the same, moving from an open competition collection system to a districted collection system (or a City-wide contract for services) would be expected to reduce the number of vehicle miles traveled with a corresponding decrease in the associated street maintenance impacts. • Potential residential street maintenance savings associated with a districted collection system are estimated to be on the order of +/- $170,000 annually. • Requiring that haulers not load vehicles in excess of manufacturer recommendations and legal load weights would also help to control street maintenance impacts. Other impacts cited in the report include the following. • Improved air quality • Improved neighborhood aesthetics (regulating appearance and operational standards) • Reduction in the number of days per week that collection service occurs in a neighborhood • Reduction in noise • Increased neighborhood safety The report included a table (reproduced below) which has been cited by many other reports to show the residential recycling trucks and residential trash trucks can be equivalent to 274 and 1,279 passenger cars, respectively. The report indicates that these numbers are supported by "various independent third parties" and cites studies conducted in Minnesota (8, 12, 14) and in California (all conducted by the same company — R3 Consulting Group, [13]). The relative impact of trash trucks in these studies varied from a low of 830 passenger cars (8) to a high of 1,730 (13).