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9.21.010
<br /> 250a (Pleasanton Supp. No. 27, 1-22)
<br />Chapter 9.21
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<br />CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION DEBRIS
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<br />Sections:
<br />9.21.010 Definitions.
<br />9.21.020 Regulated projects.
<br />9.21.030 Waste management plan.
<br />9.21.040 Evaluation of WMP.
<br />9.21.050 Compliance with WMP.
<br />9.21.060 Exemption.
<br />9.21.070 Appeal.
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<br />9.21.010 Definitions.
<br /> In this chapter, the following definitions apply:
<br /> “Applicant” means any individual, public entity or
<br />private entity that applies to the city for the applicable
<br />permit to undertake a construction, demolition, or reno-
<br />vation project.
<br /> “City manager” means the city manager or the city
<br />manager’s designee.
<br /> “Compliance official” means the city manager
<br />designated staff person(s) authorized and responsible for
<br />implementing this chapter.
<br /> “Construction and demolition debris” means solid
<br />waste and recyclable materials generated at premises
<br />during construction, demolition, or renovation.
<br /> “Conversion rate” means the rate in the standard-
<br />ized conversion rate table approved by the compliance
<br />official pursuant to this chapter for use in estimating the
<br />volume or weight of materials identified in a waste man-
<br />agement plan.
<br /> “Diversion rate” means the percentage of con-
<br />struction and demolition debris that is recycled or sal-
<br />vaged.
<br /> “Diversion requirement” means the recycling or
<br />reuse of at least 90 percent of Portland cement concrete
<br />and asphalt concrete and at least 75 percent of the re-
<br />maining construction and demolition debris, or the per-
<br />centage established by the compliance official for a pro-
<br />ject pursuant to an exemption, of the total construction
<br />and demolition debris.
<br /> “Franchised collector” means the individual, pub-
<br />lic entity or private entity that is operating pursuant to
<br />the exclusive solid waste collection franchise agreement
<br />for the collection of solid waste and recyclable materials
<br />in the city pursuant to Chapter 9.20 of the Pleasanton
<br />Municipal Code.
<br /> “Project” means any activity involving construc-
<br />tion, demolition, or renovation requiring the issuance of
<br />a building, demolition, or similar permit. “Project” also
<br />includes city-sponsored construction, demolition or
<br />renovation.
<br /> “Recyclable materials” means those nonhazardous
<br />materials or byproducts which are intended for reuse,
<br />remanufacture, or reconstitution for the purpose of using
<br />the altered form. Recyclable materials may include, but
<br />are not limited to, aluminum cans, asphalt, cardboard,
<br />carpeting, concrete, glass, metals, paper, rubber, textiles,
<br />wood.
<br /> “Recycle” means the process of collecting, sort-
<br />ing, cleansing, treating, and reconstituting material that
<br />would otherwise become solid waste, and making it
<br />available for reuse.
<br /> “Regulated project” means all new construction,
<br />residential additions creating an increase in conditioned
<br />area, all nonresidential additions greater than 1,000
<br />square feet and nonresidential alteration or renovation
<br />projects requiring a building or similar permit with a
<br />total value of $125,000.00 or more, or any demolition
<br />project requiring a demolition or similar permit with a
<br />total value of $25,000.00 or more. The total value shall
<br />be calculated by the compliance official using the city’s
<br />standard commercial and residential formulas and meth-
<br />ods.
<br /> “Salvaged” means further or repeated use of con-
<br />struction and demolition debris.
<br /> “Solid waste” means all non-hazardous putrescible
<br />and nonputrescible solid, semisolid and liquid wastes,
<br />including garbage, trash, refuse, paper, rubbish, ashes,
<br />industrial wastes, demolition and construction wastes,
<br />abandoned vehicles and parts thereof, discarded home
<br />and industrial appliances, dewatered, treated or chemi-
<br />cally fixed sewage sludge which is not hazardous waste,
<br />manure, vegetable or animal solid and semisolid wastes,
<br />and other discarded solid and semisolid wastes. Solid
<br />waste does not include recyclable materials, hazardous
<br />waste, radioactive waste or medical waste, which are
<br />subject to specific regulations in the California Public
<br />Resources Code and the California Health and Safety
<br />Codes, and are not addressed in this chapter.
<br /> “Waste management plan” or “WMP” means a
<br />plan approved by the compliance official, under this
<br />chapter, for a regulated project.
<br /> “Waste management plan fee” or “WMP fee”
<br />means a nonrefundable fee set by the city council to
<br />administer and implement this chapter. (Ord. 2120 § 1,
<br />2015; Ord. 1992 § 1, 2009)
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<br />9.21.020 Regulated projects.
<br /> A. Each applicant for a regulated project shall
<br />comply with the diversion requirements of this chapter.
<br />Compliance with this chapter shall be a condition of
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