UBLIC HEARING: Director of Development ... - City of Glendale

REDEVELOPMENT PLAN IMPACTS
4. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ANALYSIS
4.12. UTILITIES
4.12.5. SOLID WASTE
The Program EIR defmes the threshold of significance for solid waste generation as
, follows: 96
"Impacts on solid waste/hazardous waste may be considered significant if the proposed
project will 1) increase solid waste by a substantial amount; 2) result in the substantial
modification, relocation or closure of an active solid waste facility or hazardous waste
facility."
The Integrated Waste Management Section of the City of Glendale Public Wodes
Division provides refuse, collection service for the City of Glendale, including the
Redevelopment Area. Collected solid waste is deposited at the Scholl Canyon landfill, the
capacity of which is estimated to last for another 17 years. 97 As noted in the Program EIR,
successful implementation of the California Integrated Waste Management Act (Assembly Bill
(AB) 939) at the local level should result in a 50 percent reduction or diversion of solid waste
by the year 2000.
Although additional solid waste generated by the built-out Redevelopment Plan would
represent a small percentage of the total solid waste generated in the county as a whole,
cumulative growth would reduce the overall capacity of the, Scholl Canyon landfIll. Thus the
Redevelopment Plan would have an incrementally adverse impact on solid waste disposal
facilities. However, successful implementation of AB 939 will result in a 50 percent reduction
or diversion of solid waste by the year 2000, and would substantially lessen the Redevelopment
Plan impacts.
96 Program EIR, Final EIR Volume, page 3.12-14.
97 Based on the Program EIR, Final EIR Volume, page 3.12-14, published in November of1992, which eSlimated
a 20 year capaciry.
Planning Consulranu Research
Glendale Redevelopment Agency
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DreamWorks AnimatioD Campus Addeodum EIR
June 1996