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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2004-09-21; City Council; 17794; Renewal Application for N San Diego County RMDZ4B# 17.794 IIITG. 9/21/04 IEPT. PW CITY OF CARLSBAD - AGENDA BILL & TITLE: - Approval of the Renewal Application for the North San Diego I CITY *TTY- l County Recycling Market Development Zone (RMDZ) Designation. RECOMMENDED ACTION: Adopt Resolution No. 2004-298 approving the submittal of the North San Diego County application to the California Integrated Waste Management Board to renew the Recycling Market Development Zone designation. ITEM EXPLANATION: The Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 (AB 939) required local jurisdictions to achieve a 50 percent reduction in landfill waste disposal by 2000. The California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB) established the Recycling Market Development Zone (RMDZ) Program to assist local jurisdictions in meeting the state established diversion requirements. The RMDZ Program provides incentives to new businesses to develop products from recycled materials. New businesses that use recycled materials in the manufacture of a new product and which locate in an RMDZ are eligible to receive technical, financial, and marketing assistance from the CIWMB. Specifically, the CIWMB offers businesses technical assistance with: (1) economic development planning, (2) environmental review, (3) engineering, and (4) siting. The financial assistance consists of low interest loans and financial packaging. The CIWMB provides marketing assistance in the form of: (1) brochures, (2) business/manufacture referrals, and (3) surveys. On November 16, 1993, the Council approved a Kesolution supporting a regional application to become an RMDZ. The CIWMB approved this application and the North San Diego County RMDZ was established. The following cities are included in the North San Diego County RMDZ: Carlsbad, Del Mar, Escondido, Oceanside, Poway, San Diego, San Marcos, Solana Beach, Vista, and the County of San Diego. The City of San Diego acts as the zone administrator. Designation as a RMDZ has helped to attract two businesses to the City of Carlsbad. The first business, Hanson Aggregates, uses concrete and asphalt to create recycled road base that is used as bedding material. The second business, Oceanside Glass and Tile, uses recycled glass bottles to make tile. Essentially, participation in the North San Diego County RMDZ furthers our efforts to meet state mandated landfill diversion goals by attracting businesses, like those listed above, that use Carlsbad’s recycled materials as raw material in the manufacturing process. The use of these materials results in the diversion of waste from our local landfills. Designation as a RMDZ is for a period of ten years. The current RMDZ designation will expire in November of 2004. As zone administrator, the City of San Diego is completing the application on behalf of the member cities. They have requested that the City of Carlsbad provide a resolution of the City of Carlsbad supporting renewal of the North San Diego County RMDZ. FISCAL IMPACT: The designation of North County as a RMDZ will have no immediate fiscal impact on the City. If, however, additional businesses choose to site in Carlsbad as a result of the RMDZ designation then the local economy will be stimulated and new jobs created. Page 2 Of Agenda Bill No. 17,794 EXHIBITS: 1. Resolution No. 2004-298 approving the Renewal Application for the North San Diego County Recycling Market Development Zone (RMDZ) Designation. DEPARTMENT CONTACT: Maryza Gutierrez, (760) 602-2776, mguti@ci.carlsbad.ca.us 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 RESOLUTION NO. 2004-298 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA, APPROVING THE RENEWAL APPLICATION FOR THE NORTH SAN DIEGO COUNTY RECYCLING MARKET DEVELOPMENT ZONE (RMDZ) DESIGNATION. WHEREAS, the California Public Resources Code Section 4201 0 provides for the establishment of the Recycling Market Development Zone (RMDZ) Program throughout the State to provide incentives to stimulate development of post-consumer and secondary materials markets for recyclables ; and WHEREAS, the North San Diego County RMDZ includes the cities of Carlsbad, Del Mar, Escondido, Oceanside, Poway, San Diego, San Marcos, Solana Beach, Vista, and the County of San Diego; and WHEREAS, cities and counties must meet a 50 percent reduction in landfill waste disposal as mandated in the California Integrated Waste Management Act; and WHEREAS, the North San Diego County RMDZ designation will expire in November 2004 unless re-designated by the California Integrated Waste Management Board; and WHEREAS, the City of Carlsbad still desires existing and new recycling-based manufacturing businesses locating within the region to be eligible for the technical and financial incentives associated with the RMDZ program; and WHEREAS, the renewal of the North San Diego County RMDZ is still necessary to facilitate local and regional planning, coordination, support of existing recycling-based manufacturing businesses, as well as attract private sector recycling business investments to the region; and WHEREAS, the current and proposed waste management practices and conditions are favorable to the development of post-consumer and secondary waste materials markets; and NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Carlsbad, California, as follows: 1. That the above recitations are true and correct. Ill Ill 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 2. That the submittal of a Recycling Market Development Zone renewal application to include the cities of: Carlsbad, Del Mar, Escondido, Oceanside, Poway, San Diego, San Marcos, Solana Beach, Vista, and the County of San Diego is hereby approved. PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the Carlsbad City Council held on the 21st day of September , 2004 by the following vote, to wit: hin, Hall and Packard. NOES: None ABSENT: NO P ATTEST !lZl!&~gl d& WOOD, City Clerk (SEAL)