Loading...
2003/11/12 City Council ResolutionRESOLUTION NO. 2003 -263 A RESOLUTION OF ROVING THE THE CITY COUNTYWIDE AUTHORIZING AND AP INTEGRATED WASTE MANAGEMENT WASTE MANAGEMENT ACT OF1 ACCORDANCE WITH THE CALIFORNIA INTEGRATED AB 9 9 BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Rohnert Park that it does hereby make the following findings and determinations in connection with the proposed 2003 CoIWMP. WHEREAS, the adopted 1996 CoIWMP has been updated as the 2003 CoIWMP in accordance with the AB 939. In addition to the programs identified in the 1996 CoIWMP, the 2003 CoIWMP proposes to provide: 1) a formal agreement among all cities and the County to direct flow of refuse and green waste solid waste facilities in Sonoma County; 2) mandatory access to recycling facilities for residential, commercial, industrial, and institutional waste generators; 3) an expansion of the Central Landfill beyond its current permitted capacity (i.e., beyond the year 2015); and 4) the siting of an integrated Resource Management Facility (RMF) to include organics processing (anaerobic digestion), green waste composting and land filling. WHEREAS, the City of Rohnert Park the goals the nd for all the CoIWMP; and in the County of Sonoma to work together to g WHEREAS, the Sonoma County Waste Management Agency ( "SCWMA ") became a Regional Agency on November 15, 1995, as defined under Section 40970 of the California Public Resources Code, representing the Cities of Cotati, Cloverdale, Healdsburg, Petaluma, Rohnert Park, Santa Rosa, Sebastopol, and Sonoma, the Town of Windsor, and the County of Sonoma; and WHEREAS, the CoIWMP was approved by the California Integrated Waste Management Board ( "CIWMB ") on April, 1996, and revised at annual intervals with the submission of the AB 939 Annual Report to the CIWMB; and WHEREAS, the SCWMA a1 pmdact report and adopting the 2003 CoIWMP on October Supplemental Program Environmental p p 15, 2003 during a duly noticed public hearing; and WHEREAS, the Final 2003 CoIWMP was prepared in accordance with the California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989; and WHEREAS, it is the requirement of each responsible agency to adopt findings pursuant to CEQA; and WHEREAS, the City of Rohnert Park does hereby acknowledge that in complying with the state mandate known as AB 939 the potential exists for significant impacts; and Reso. No. 2003 -263 WHEREAS, the City of Rohnert Park finds the following environmental factors have been identified as having the potential for significant social, health, and environmental impacts: 1. Land use 2. Soils and agricultural resources 3. Hydrology and water quality 4. Public safety, hazards and hazardous materials 5. Transportation 6. Air quality 7. Noise 8. Vegetation and wildlife 9. Visual resources follows BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Rohnert Park finds, determines and orders as The California Integrated Waste Management Act requires regional agencies, cities and counties to prepare Integrated Waste Management Plans, which reasonably respond to the needs and desires of these local agencies. The Sonoma County Waste Management Agency, acting as the regional agency representing the Cities of Cloverdale, Cotati, Healdsburg, Petaluma, Santa Rosa, Sebastopol, and Sonoma, the Town of Windsor, and the County of Sonoma, adopted the 2003 CoIWMP on October 15, 2003. 2. The Final Supplemental Program Environmental Impact Report (FSPEIR) disclosed certain significant or potentially significant environmental impacts, which could be mitigated to less than significant levels. These effects and their respective mitigation measures are set forth in Exhibit A to the Sonoma County Waste Management Agency Resolution No. 2003 -022, which is incorporated herein by reference. The impacts and their mitigation measures are more fully described in the FSPEIR. The mitigation measures set forth in Exhibit A, in so far as they are applicable to any activity that will be undertaken by the City of Rohnert Park in furtherance of the 2003 CoIWMP, are approved as adopted as a part of any such activity to which they are applicable. The FSPEIR also disclosed certain significant or potentially significant environmental impacts that may not or cannot be avoided if the 2003 CoIWMP is implemented. These impacts, together with certain mitigation measures, which, where feasible, will lessen such impacts, are set forth in Exhibit B to the Sonoma County Waste Management Agency Resolution No. 2003 -022, which is incorporated herein by reference. The mitigation measures set forth in Exhibit B in so far as they are applicable to any activity that will be undertaken by the City of Rohnert Park in furtherance of the 2003 CoIWMP, are approved and adopted, should they be feasible under the circumstances then prevailing, as a part of any such activity to which they are applicable. Reso. No. 2003 -263 4. The FSPEIR described a range of alternatives to the 2003 CoIWMP. These alternatives and the reasons each is in conflict with one or more of the goals and objectives of the 2003 CoIWMP and the requirements of state law are set forth in Exhibit C to the Sonoma County Waste Management Agency Resolution No. 2003 -022, which is incorporated herein by reference and approved and adopted. 5. The City of Rohnert Park has considered the significant environmental effects of the 2003 CoIWMP, as set forth in Exhibit B, which cannot feasibly be lessened to a level of insignificance or avoided, and has considered the statement of overriding considerations set forth in Exhibit E to the Sonoma County Waste Management Agency Resolution No. 2003 -022, which is incorporated herein by reference. The City of Rohnert Park further finds that the process of publicly addressing the problems of solid waste disposal and preparing a response to those problems has resulted, and will continue to result, in an increasing public and governmental awareness of the problems of solid waste management, disposal, recycling and composting, which awareness will return long -term benefits to the environment and the conservation of natural resources. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City of Rohnert Park has considered the Mitigation Monitoring Program and Reporting Plan (Exhibit D) prepared for the 2003 CoIWMP and adopted by the Sonoma County Waste Management Agency. The subject Program and 2003 CoIWMP is hereby approved and adopted in so far as it is applicable to any activity which will be undertaken by the City of Rohnert Park in furtherance of the 2003 CoIWMP. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City of Rohnert Park, based on the foregoing findings, determinations, approvals and adoptions, and in response to the requirements of AB 939, approves the Sonoma County 2003 Countywide Integrated Waste Management Plan, including the Source Reduction and Recycling Element, the Household Hazardous Waste Element, the Non - Disposal Facility Element, and the Siting Element. DULY AND REGULARLY ADOPTED this 12th day of November, 2003. CITY OF ROHNERT PARK l � CITY Mayor D+IACKENZIE: AYE NORDIN: AYE SPRADLIN: AYE AYES: (5) NOES: (0) ABSENT: (0 VIDAK- MARTINEZ: AYE FLORES: AYE ABSTAIN: (0)