Sanchez probes compliance gaps and unused capacity
Sanchez notes that none of the four designated districts achieved full compliance and asks whether reductions targeted unused capacity. Anderson says it was a mix and that actual throughput decreased for some facilities.
And have capacity reductions targeted mostly unused capacity at waste transfer stations?
It's a mix of both.
There are, as I said in my testimony, there were actual reductions in throughput as a result of the implementation of this law.
So there was...
Real tangible capacity that had been used prior to the implementation of local 152 that can no longer be used.
So can you explain to us what challenges that the department has faced implementing the law and the law's reduction requirements, what more challenges have been faced, and what can be done to ensure that
total compliance is achieved.
So we've achieved total compliance with the law as it was written and enacted by the city council and as was laid out in the environmental review that we did ahead of the law's passage.
So from our perspective, we have implemented that law.
That doesn't mean that we have
stopped working toward additional waste equity.
And I think the commercial waste zones program is a great example of that.
Not only will a commercial waste zones program reduce truck traffic citywide, but it will reduce truck traffic in particular in neighborhoods that host waste transfer stations, commercial
parting hubs of operations and other waste related facilities.
And so, you know, we have seen and will continue to see truck traffic reduce in those neighborhoods as we implement that program.