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Attachment 1A t~; ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~~~ ~; r 3 ~ a ~. y I imi{ cifinn nnFinnc t 11. ZONING DESIGNATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS Consideration The County has adopted a Zoning Ordinance in order to protect and promote the health, safety, and general welfare of the County and its residents. The Zoning Ordinance regulates and restricts uses of land within the County, including such things as the height, size of buildings, and other structures; the percentage of a lot that may be occupied; the size of yards, courts, and other open spaces; the density of populations; and the location of Governmental Facilities such as aCounty- ownetlTransfer Station. If the selected transfer station site is not located within an area that is within the County's exclusive planning jurisdiction then other units of government may be involved in the permitting and approval of the proposed transfer station site. Definition: A Trarisfer station can be located in all Zoning Districts in the exclusive planning jurisdiction of the County where Governmental Facilities and Office Buildings are permitted pursuant to Article 4.3 Permitted Use Table (Line P24) of the County's Zoning Ordinance, including those areas of the Rural Buffer not located in protected watershed critical areas and including anywhere in any of the EDDs where Governmental Facilities and Office Buildings are permitted pursuant fo the Permitted Use Tables contained within the EDD Manuals, subject to all Site Plan requirements contained within Article 14 of the Zoning Ordinance, EDD Manual requirements, permits and approval .processes as applicable. t ''-o,e~ mau?e-gas-em+ss~e~ s -Aufernebiie--l-psuntl-SOi~le~~rEVen 12. CARBON FOOTPRINT Consideration Refuse trucks provide an invaluable service, improving the quality of life as they haul away thou- sands ofpounds ofgarbage every day, However, the refuse trucks also contribute to air and noise pollution. Nearly 99 percent of these vehicles run on diesel fuel, and the emissions from these diesel engines contain particulate matter, hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen oxides, Definition Impact of waste hauling activities on the environment measured in terms of the greenhouse gas (measured in units of carbon dioxide) emissions. Important Sites will be ranked in accordance with the following hierarchy: A site that is located within the Orange County Planning jurisdiction, excluding the Rural Buffer portion of the Joint Planning Area and excluding the Transition area, will be ranked the highest followed respectively by sites located. in the Rural Buffer, Transition, ETJ, with those sites located within a municipality ranked the lowest. Important The site with the lowest environmental impact will be ranked the highest. Environmental impact will be assessed on the basis of carbon dioxide emissions (megagrams per year) from collection vehicles for the increased travel distance from the cenfroid of waste generation to the proposed transfer station site, Page 6 Attachment 1A BOCC Work Session - 06/16/08