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Agenda - 01-24-2017 - 13-7 - Information Item - Orange County Sustainability and Environmental Responsibility Goal Update
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6 <br /> <br />Planning and Inspections: <br /> SolSmart: Planning and Inspections staff provided critical technical guidance in the completion of <br />Orange County’s application to the SolSmart program, in collaboration with the Sustainability Program. <br />SolSmart is a national recognition and technical support program to help governments lower the costs <br />for businesses and residents to build solar energy systems. The Sustainability Program joined <br />sustainability staff from Chapel Hill and Carrboro in a successful application for 6 months of additional <br />no‐cost, full‐time, “SolSmart” technical assistance in 2017. Beyond working with the Advisor to review <br />our solar‐relevant codes and practices, we also plan respond to the BOCC petition on solar‐ready <br />construction and to help identify the best Orange County facility rooftops for future solar power <br />investments. Each community is working with their Planning and Inspections staff to achieve high‐level <br />designation in the 2017 SolSmart Communities program. <br /> <br /> Bike Share Program: Orange County Transportation Planning staff is currently exploring the possibility of <br />funding a small bike share system within the Town of Hillsborough. Working in conjunction with Chapel <br />Hill, Carrboro, and UNC‐Chapel Hill, the proposed pilot implementation for a bike share program would <br />include all of the communities in question. In Hillsborough, the system would consist of three or four <br />stations with a total of 15 bikes. Preliminary analysis indicates that a station in West Hillsborough near <br />destinations on Nash Street, a station at the Gateway Center, a station on Churton Street, and a station <br />near the County Courthouse and Eno Farmer’s Market could form the basis for a system in Hillsborough. <br /> <br />Solid Waste Management: <br /> Waste Reduction Performance: For FY 15‐16 Orange Co. achieved an overall 62% waste reduction rate, <br />meaning that the waste landfilled per capita was 0.52 tons per person last year compared to 1.36 <br />tons/capita per person in base year 1991. This surpassed for the third year in a row, our goal set in 1997 <br />of 61% reduction. Orange County’s performance on this metric this year was the best in NC though it <br />was 2% less than the prior two year highs of 64% waste reduction. <br /> <br /> Providing universal residential curbside recycling service: All 41,500 homes throughout urban and rural <br />Orange County are now eligible for curbside recycling. In the past year, the remaining homes in the rural <br />area were added to the curbside program. Use of roll carts has improved collection efficiency such that <br />the County has had to add only one truck and driver to the existing fleet to offer universal recycling <br />service to all 22,000 rural residences. <br /> <br /> Recycling Services: The Orange County Solid Waste Management Department continues to provide <br />recycling collection to all County government buildings and facilities as well as those of Chapel Hill, <br />Carrboro, and Hillsborough. The ‘government buildings program’ is in reality a broad and expanding <br />effort that encompasses many elements of ‘away from home’ recycling including building, parks, park <br />and ride lots, downtown pedestrian containers now in all three Towns and convenience store gas islands <br />at about half the convenience stores throughout the County. A total of 209 tons was collected last fiscal <br />year at these locations. <br /> <br /> Waste Audits: Staff is conducting waste audits of major local government buildings in all jurisdictions <br />that will evaluate the amount of recyclable material that is still being thrown away and will assess <br />options for improving the governments’ internal waste reduction performance. Follow‐up audits will <br />occur in Spring 2017. <br /> <br />6
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