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Key Issues: <br />A solid waste planning requirement could be adopted by other jurisdictions in the County as a <br />condition of issuance of development permits. This would require coordination among <br />jurisdictions to adopt similar ordinances and staff to enforce the ordinances. <br />The Planning and Building Inspections Departments would need to be involved to track when <br />and where developments were permitted, scheduled and initiated. <br />Costs <br />Staff would be required for effective implementation of these ordinances. <br />Generally a requirement to plan is useful if either economics or enforcement of regulations <br />results in implementation of its measures. The sections below outline how those regulations <br />might be implemented. <br />2.Requiring waste separation at the source. <br />It is possible to require that builders separate recyclable materials. This would essentially be a <br />mandatory recycling ordinance for construction, and possibly demolition, waste. It could be <br />enforced by requiring source separation of certain marketable materials as a condition of <br />issuance of the building permit or as part of a general ordinance regulating construction and <br />demolition waste management in Orange County. <br />There are some nuances as to how this type of regulation may be implemented and enforced by <br />local governments. An attorney, working as an intern in the Solid Waste Mangement Department <br />previously (October 1997) developed a memorandum analyzing local authority to implement such <br />regulations. Subsequently he drafted an ordinance (Feb. 1998) that would regulate construction and <br />demolition waste separately from the building inspections framework. The draft ordinance was <br />written in the context of the North Carolina municipal code which may differ from the County code. <br />We have requested a review of this ordinance by the County attorney to determine its applicability <br />to County code of ordinances. <br />Key Issues: <br />We believe that mandating source - separation of construction waste it is better pursued as a <br />separate ordinance under the police powers of the County, because it appears strategically, <br />politically, and legally difficult to make a mandatory source - separation ordinance part of the <br />building code for only Orange County or anywhere in North Carolina as long as approval of the <br />Building Codes Council is required. <br />24 <br />