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RESOLUTION NO. 7275
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF AZUSA URGING COUNTY OF
LOS ANGELES TO GRANT PUENTE HILLS
CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT
WHEREAS, the County Sanitation Districts
of Los Angeles County have created a regional system
for solid waste management that has served well the
many cities and unincorporated area in the County; and
WHEREAS, a major component of that system, the
Puente Hills Landfill has been operated by the Districts
in an environmentally sound and nuisance -free manner; and
WHEREAS, the Puente Hills Landfill is the largest
sanitary landfill in Southern California, serving approxi-
mately 1.8 million people as well as business and industry
in the southern and eastern portions of Los Angeles County;
and
WHEREAS, the Sanitation Districts have prepared
a comprehensive Environmental Impact Report which addresses
community concerns in a thorough manner and which proposes
control measures that will continue to make the landfill a
good neighbor; and
WHEREAS, the Sanitation Districts have developed
innovative and highly effective methods for control of landfill
gas odor, protection of groundwater quality, deterence of
hazardous waste disposal within the site, elimination of
vectors, and control of other potential impacts; and
WHEREAS, the development plan for the operation
of the landfill has involved citizens advisory committees,
representing interested communities; and
WHEREAS, the County of Los Angeles is considering
a conditional use permit application by the Sanitation
Districts that would allow the continued operation of the
Puente Hills Landfill and potential expansion of the landfill
activity into portions of the eastern canyon area of the
Puente Hills site; and
WHEREAS, the Districts have offered to make substantial
portions of the property available for open space recreational
uses at the outset of the project on areas not being utilized
for filling and at the completion of the project over the
entire site; and
WHEREAS, environmental impacts of the denial of
this project are estimated to be a minimum of 9 million
vehicle miles per year of additional truck travel, 0.7 million
pounds per year of additional exhaust emission, and 1.5 million
gallons per year of added fuel consumption; and
WHEREAS, these environmental impacts are minimum
estimates based on use of the next closest landfill, the
BKK Landfill in West Covina. If however, that site is not
totally available to accept the waste that would otherwise
been disposed of Puente Hills, these environmental impacts
could easily more than double; and
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WHEREAS, the economic costs of transporting
wastes to the next closest sites are estimated to be in
the range of $20 to $40 million per year; and
WHEREAS, the closure of the Puente Hills Landfill
would result in a significant burden on remaining landfills
within the County, causing early closure of the other
available sites;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City
Council of the City of Azusa petitions the Zoning Board,
the Planning Commission, and the Board of Supervisors
of Los Angeles County to grant the proposed permit for the
continuation and expansion of the Puente Hills Landfill.
ADOPTED AND APPROVED this 6th day of June , 1983.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing resolution
was duly adopted by the City Council of the City of Azusa,
at a regular meeting thereof, held on the 6th day of
June , 1983, by the following vote of the Council:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: HART, CRUZ, LATTA, MOSES
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: DECKER
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