HomeMy WebLinkAbout2022-01-25 - ORDINANCES - INTEGRATED WASTE MANAGEMENTORDINANCE NO. 22-3
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SANTA CLARITA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING AND RESTATING
CHAPTER 15.44 INTEGRATED WASTE MANAGEMENT
WHEREAS, the California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, commonly
referred to as Assembly Bill (AB939), codified in substantial part at Public Resources Code
§ 40000 et. seq., requires each local jurisdiction in the State to divert 50 percent of discarded
materials (base year 1990, state methodology) from landfills, and transformation facilities; and
WHEREAS, AB341 (Chesbro) was enacted by the California Legislature making it a
policy goal of the State to divert 75 percent of solid waste away from the landfills by 2020,
through source reduction, recycling and composting; and
WHEREAS, AB 1826 (Chesbro) was enacted by the California Legislature requiring a
business that generates more than two cubic yards of commercial solid waste per week, including
multi -family residential complexes to arrange for recycling services specifically for organic
waste; and
WHEREAS, Senate Bill 1383 (SB 1383), the Short -Lived Climate Pollutant Reduction
Act of 2016 (Lara), requires California's Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery
(CalRecycle) to develop regulations to reduce organics in landfills as a source of methane. The
regulations place requirements on multiple entities including cities, counties, residential
households, commercial businesses and business owners, commercial edible food generators,
haulers, self -haulers, food recovery organizations, and food recovery services to support
achievement of statewide organic waste disposal reduction targets; and
WHEREAS, SB 13 83 requires cities to adopt and enforce an ordinance or enforceable
mechanism to implement relevant provisions of SB1383 regulations. This ordinance will also
help reduce food insecurity by requiring commercial edible food generators to arrange to have
the maximum amount of their edible food waste, that would otherwise be disposed, be recovered
for human consumption; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to California Constitution Article 11, § 7, as implemented in part
by Public Resources Code § 40059, and the Santa Clarita Municipal Code Chapter 15.44, the
City of Santa Clarita (City) has the authority to regulate solid waste generation in the City; and
WHEREAS, organic waste constitutes a substantial percentage of the waste stream in the
State and these materials have significant potential for waste reduction and recycling; and
WHEREAS, diverting organic waste from landfills reduces greenhouse gas generation
into the environment.
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NOW THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA,
CALIFORNIA, DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Amendment of Chapter 15.44 of the Santa Clarita Municipal Code entitled
"Integrated Waste Management" is hereby amended and restated to read in its entirety as shown
in Exhibit A, incorporated herein by this reference.
SECTION 2. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, part, or portion of this
ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by any court of competent
jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this
ordinance. The City Council declares that it would have adopted this ordinance and each section,
subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, part, or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one
or more section, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases, parts, or portions be declared invalid or
unconstitutional.
SECTION 3. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect thirty days from its passage
and adoption.
SECTION 4. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and shall cause
the same to be published as required by law.
PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this 25th day of January 2022.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss.
CITY OF SANTA CLARITA )
I, Mary Cusick, City Clerk of the City of Santa Clarita, do hereby certify that the
foregoing Ordinance 22-3 was regularly introduced and placed upon its first reading at a regular
meeting of the City Council on the 11 th day of January 2022. That thereafter, said ordinance was
duly passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council on the 25th day of January,
20225 by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS : Smyth, McLean, Miranda, Gibbs, Weste
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS : None
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: None
AND I FURTHER CERTIFY that the foregoing is the original of Ordinance 22-3 and
was published in The Signal newspaper in accordance with State Law (G.C. 40806).
CITY CLERK
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