City of Pickering Official Plan- Edition 6

10.7 City Council recognizes that industrial and
post-consumer waste is a resource to be
managed; accordingly, Council shall,
CITY POLICY
Waste Management
(a) support and promote reduction, reuse
and recycling of waste in all households,
businesses and municipal operations;
(b) focus more on the reduction and
elimination of waste than on the
management of waste generated;
(c) encourage businesses to develop safe,
cost-effective and innovative ways of
recycling or reusing waste materials in
order to divert them from landfill;
(d) prepare an appropriate waste management
strategy for the City’s facilities, as well as
for households, institutions and
businesses within the City; and
(e) review development proposals to ensure
waste management and waste reduction
is accommodated.
10.8 City Council, in acknowledging that mineral
aggregates are an important resource,
recognizes that there is one area of high
potential mineral aggregate reserve remaining
in the City; accordingly, Council shall,
CITY POLICY
Aggregate Resources
(a) designate Areas of High Potential
Mineral Aggregate Resources to increase
awareness of this area (see Schedule III);
(b) require proponents of development
within or adjacent to this area to submit
a study that assesses the potential
aggregate reserves on the site and the
impact of the proposal on the ability of
lands within the area of high potential to
be utilized for extraction purposes;
(c) require new sites for aggregate extraction,
including new sites for aggregate
extraction or expansions to existing
aggregate operations within
the Oak Ridges Moraine to be established
by amendment to this Plan and to the
Durham Regional Official Plan (see
section 15.33);
(d) require, where appropriate, the
recommendations of the required studies
be implemented (see (b) above and
section 15.33); and
(e) encourage the rehabilitation of
abandoned pits and quarries in a manner
that is compatible with surrounding land
uses.
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