Garbage: 3 Permitted Haulers are Enough, City Attorney Says

Problem: Weighty, lumbering garbage trucks are wreaking havoc on LCF streets.

Solution: Don't issue permits to any more waste collectors.

will consider an urgent ordinance to stop issuing waste collector permits during its regular 7 p.m. meeting Monday.

Members are concerned because LCF already has dumptrucks from two companies, Allied Waste Services and Athens Services, traversing city streets, with a permit granted to a third, NASA Servives, Inc.

According to a June 2011 report from the Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission, "A bus exerts more than 7,000 times the stress on pavement than does a typical sport utility vehicle. And a garbage truck exerts more than 9,000 times as much stress as an SUV.''

City Attorney Mark Steres' agenda report said the city's costs for street maintenance will likely increase with the faster pace of street pavement deterioration. Therefore, his recommendation is that Council adopt the ordinance.

A minimum of four of the five members must vote for an urgency ordinance for it to be adopted.

Other Items of Interest Monday Night:

State of the State

Assembly member Anthony Portantino will present his annual "State of the State" address.

Portantino, a resident of La Cañada, will update council members on issues relating to the state budget--education, prison realignment, redevelopment. He'll also discuss various pieces of legislation, and speak specifically about how these issues affect the La Cañada community.

Renewable Energy

The Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project (TRIP) from Southern California Edison. TRIP is a renewable energy project that would connect wind energy to the existing electric system, according to the SCE website. The project would help meet a state requirement that mandates by 2020 at least 33 percent of the electricity SCE delivers to customers must be produced by renewable sources.