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'�'O: HONQ�iABLE MAYOR and CITY COUNCIL ~ <br />F�R: <br />FROM: <br />Mes1 <br />Za <br />1993 <br />pment Director <br />SUBJECT: Request consideration of urgency ordinance to impose <br />a moratorium pertaining to all composting and related uses <br />and operations. <br />:��•i� ` � <br />On December 3, 1992 Staff met with Councilman Sandoval and the City Manager to review <br />and discuss Inland Empire Composting, a composting operation that had recently received <br />a conditional use permit by the Planning Commission. The proposal included the use of <br />40.6 acres for composting operations and, specifically, the use of temporary trailers on <br />the site for laboratory and office facilities. At that meeting, concerns were voiced over the <br />proposal's environmental impacts, and direction was given to proceed with the considera- <br />tion of a moratorium for composting and related uses in the City in order to review the <br />impact of such operations in the City. <br />DISCUSSION/ANALYSIS: <br />Upon review of the determinations for the existing and proposed composting facilites, Staff <br />determined that the facilities were permitted as light manufacturing processing facilities in <br />the areas governed as Light Industrial (M-1) by the Zoning Ordinance; or agricultural <br />processing facilities in the open space/agricultural zone within the Agua Mansa Specific <br />Plan areas. <br />That determination may be too general for the composting facilities, since they may be <br />defined and classified more clearly as recycling operations. Specifically, composting may <br />be defined as a recycling processing facility under section 18.50.010 of the Zoning <br />Ordinance, which states that such a facility would incorporate the "baling, briquetting, <br />compacting, flattening, grinding, crushing, mechanical sorting, shredding,.." of recyclable <br />materials (see attached memorandum from City Attorney). Based on this determination, <br />a light recycling processing facility, occupying an area of less than 45,000 square feet <br />would be permitted in all industrial zones, with a conditional use permit, and a heavy <br />recycling processing facility, occupying an area greater than 45,000 square feet, would <br />only be permitted in heavy industrial zones with a conditional use permit. <br />Agenda Report <br />Page 1 of Item No. <br />G <br />�� <br />N <br />❑� <br />0 <br />L� <br />E <br />� <br />�❑ <br />I� <br />„ <br />