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HomeMy WebLinkAboutRCC AGENDA PK 1991/04/08ITEMS FOR COUNCIL ACTION FROM "ENVIRONMENTAL AGENDA FOR THE 90'S • August 20, 1990 - (MSP) to recommend that City Council adopt as goals the document entitled "Items for Council Action from 'Environmental Agenda for the 90's" Items #1 through #57 except for Items #2, #6, #17, li20, #24, #25, #33, #40, #41, #44 and #52. MSUC to continue all remaining pulled Items #17, #20, #24, #33, #40, #41, #44 and #52 to the next meeting. • 9/10/90 - 46 out of 57 items have been previously approved. • 9/24/90 -Review of the "Agenda for the 90's" was continued. Item #6 was awaiting input from the city attorney and staff; Item #24 -Board members just received a copy of the bill in question with inadequate time for review. • 10/22/90 - It was MSUP (Ray/Hall) to refer to City Council all items which previously had action taken by RCC. • 11/12/90 - It was MSUP (Hall/Ray) to continue items t/2 and 25 of the "Environmental Agenda for the '90's" until the next regulaz meeting. • 1/7/91 - It was MSUP (Fox/Ray) to continue the item regazding "Environmental Agenda for the 90s" to the next meeting with review of previous minutes back to July 1990. February 1991 -Items remaining for action: #2, #24, #25, #33, #44, #52 :«..* NOTE: DATES UNDERLINED INDICATE WHEN ACTION WAS TAKEN ««•«r 1 1. Council policy to undertake no further east-west streets or widenings for accommodation of more eastwazd development until planning is completed for new east-west public transit. $/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 2. A General Plan amendment precluding further approvals of major new projects which would have been illegal prior to the General Plan Revision of 1989 until the issues raised by council referrals on General Plan issues -provision of public transit, protection of residential neighborhoods from increased traffic, and a Growth Management Element to the General Plan have been resolved. 8/20/90 -After several motions, it was MSC to combine Items #2 and #25 singularly and label it #2, taking no action on approval at this time. 9/10/90 -combined into one item with #25; further discussion to continue with full commission. 10/22/90 - MSUP to move to continue items #2 and 25 to the next meeting. 3. Directing staff to prepare along-term plan for the construction of a citywide system of bicycle lanes to make bicycling convenient and safe throughout the city, with a phased plan for implementation through the capital improvements budget. 8/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal: 4. Anew caning ordinance requiring mixes uses (e.g., neighborhood commercial and residential) within walking distance of each other in new development, and facilitating mixes uses consistent with community character in previously built areas, subject to design review. 8/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 5. Anew street design ordinance, requiring new streets to be designed to be driven at a safe speed for pedestrians (not just motorists), prohibiting high-speed design on residential streets and near schools and senior centers, and requiring the provision of usable and safe bicycle lanes. 8/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 2 6. A zoning ordinance requiring new employment centers to be situated within convenient walking distance of public transit services, with provisions for partnerships between developers and the city for the provision of such services where feasible. 8/20/90 - (after several motions made and withdrawn) it was MSUC to continue Item #6 to the next meeting for the purpose of reviewing the item and preparing more suitable language and so the Commission's concerns and objections can be addressed. (Opinion from the City Attorney, representative from Planning requested to address the Commission's concerns). 9/10/90 - MSUP to continue until staff can adequately report on it. 9/24/90 -Continued -awaiting input from the city attorney and staff. 10/22/90 -Item #6 was waiting for City Attorney opinion, with the wording acceptable on the fast part, and a request that it be a policy on the general plan. 10/22/90 - It was moved and seconded (Ha1UGhougassian) that #6 be changed to "The City should encourage new employment centers to be situated within convenient walking distance of public transit services where feasible, and likewise, have provisions for partnerships between developers and the city for the provision of such services." (Motion passed 3-1) 1 /22/ -After much discussion, it was MSUP (Hall/Ghougassian) to eliminate #6 of the Environmental Agenda completely. 7. A Transportation Demand Management Ordinance. This ordinance would require large employers, including the City, to prepare plans for a reduction in "drive alone" commutes during peak hours of over 50% within five years. Measures in transportation demand management plans could include carpooling, transit and bicycle incentives, flex hours and alternative workweeks, hiring from residential areas near the place of employment, or other measures to be determined in each plan. Plans should be monitored for compliance with goals, and goals should be periodically evaluated for their ability to achieve healthier air. $/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 8. Adoption of a city government transportation demand management plan in advance of the effective date of the above ordinance, including the measures listed above. 8/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 3 9. Direct staff to prepare a plan for the construction, through the capital improvements process (or with redevelopment funds in appropriate areas) of secure bicycle parking facilities at city facilities and commercial centers, giving priority to locations at businesses wishing to provide such improvements in partnership with the city. 8/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 10. Adoption of an ordinance prohibiting contracts for E1Rs which do not require the best possible quantification of impacts in areas mandated by CEQA, and prohibiting payment for unacceptable E1Rs. 8/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 11. Direct staff to identify projects impacting Chula Vista where environmental and traffic forecasts on which policy makers relied turned out to be seriously wrong, to hire a consultant not connected to any such projects to conduct a study of how they went wrong, and to provide rewmmendafions for correcting the process in the future, as well as on any remedies the city may have. 8/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 12. Request a staff report on current air quality maintenance programs for city equipment, with recommendations for improvements if appropriate. 8/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 13. Adopt an ordinance containing a preferential procurement policy for clean fuels (within realistic economic parameters) and requiring an annual public report on implementation. $/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 14. Send a letter from the City Council to Mayor O'Connor of San Diego, the Chair of the County Board of Supervisors, and the mayors of the other cities in the county asking them to join in a cooperative effort to explore the feasibility and desirability of creating a public energy distribution utility while opening energy production to the free market. 8/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 15. Direct our staff, as intervenors in any proceeding concerning proposals for new SDG&E facilities in Chula Vista, to demand proof of air quality claims, and to oppose any such proposals in the absence of proof that they will improve our air quality and that SDG&E will be held to any assurances it gives by the prospect of meaningful penalties for violations of any agreements. 8/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 4 16. Send a letter to the California Energy Commission outlining our agreement with SDG&E concerning the rezone of their Chula Vista land and putting on the record of any Energy Commission proceeding the invalidity under that agreement of any implication that new industrial uses by SDG&E on our bayfront are consistent with local land use regulations. 8/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 17. Consider an l~pen Space zone alternative for at least part of the SDG&E bayfront property. 8/20/90 -MSUC to continue this remaining pulled Item to next meeting. 9/10/90 - MSUP for RCC to recommend to City Council to adopt as goal the consideration of open space zone designation for at least part of the Bayfront property to include but not be limited to the site being considered for the additional power plant. 18. Adopt an indoor smoking law patterned after San Diego County's. 8/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 19. Direct staff to report on the possible establishment of a fund, similar to that proposed at the federal level by the Environmental Defense Fund, to subsidize the removal of lead from older Chula Vista homes. This report should include an analysis of need, and, if the need is shown, of possible funding sources, e.g., a ballot measure to tax lead products. /8 20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 20. Duect staff to prepare a policy, with input from the Environmental Health Coalition and appropriate others, to eliminate the use of polluting chemicals by the city and prescribing alternatives. 8/20/90 -MSUC to continue this remaining pulled Item to next meeting. 9/10/90 - MSUP for the commission to recommend to the City Council to adopt as goal the direction of staff to prepare a policy, with input from the Environmental Health Coalition and appropriate others, to eliminate wherever feasible, the use of polluting chemicals by the city and prescribing alternatives. 21. Adopt a city policy to identify and prohibit the purchase of any unnecessary products the production, use, or disposal of which is harmful to the earth's ozone layer, and assure that all staff with purchasing authority receive a copy. 8/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 5 22. Adopt an ordinance requiring work on automobile air conditioners to be performed with equipment to prevent the escape of ozone-depleting chemicals into the environment, with the effecflve date delayed until a similar ordinance is adopted in all jurisdictions in the county. 8/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 23. Add support for the Bates ozone layer protection bill to the city's legislative program. 8/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 24. Add support for Assemblyman Peace's A.B. 1332 to phase out chlorofluorocarbons from automobile air conditioning by 1995 to the city's legislative program. 8/20/90 - MSUC to continue this remaining pulled Item to next meeting. 9/10/90 - MSUP to request that staff obtain a copy of Assemblyman Peace's A.B. 1332 to get the intent and impact of said bill; item continued to October 1st meeting after information is obtained. 9/24/90 -Continued -Board members just received a copy of the bill in question with inadequate time for review. 25. Hold off on further tentative map approvals for major projects relying on the 1989 General Plan revision until that revision - including a Growth Management Element with implementation measures - is complete. 8/20/90 -Motion to combine Item 2 and 25 singularly and label it JJ2, taking no action on approval at this time. 9/20/90 -Combined as one item with Jig; further discussion to continue with full commission. 10/22/90 - It was MSUP to move to continue items #2 and 25 to the next meeting. 26. Adopt an ordinance requiring new developments to be considered by the Parks and Recreation Commission, with that commission's recommendation being put before the City Council at the time of any council action, and prohibiting council approval prior to such input. 8/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. .. 27. Adopt an ordinance for the creation of open space and parks acquisition assessment districts. 8/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 28. Adopt an Open Space zone. 8/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 29. Adopt an ordinance requiring redevelopment plans to be considered by the Planning Commission and the Resource Conservation Commission prior to City Council action. 8/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 30. Adopt a Sensitive Lands Ordinance for the protection of slopes, canyons, riparian habitats and other environmentally sensitive lands. 8/20/90 - Rewmmended that City Council adopt as goal. 31. Adopt a policy requiring certification, prior to approval, of projects' compliance with the General Plan Growth Management Flement, the "Threshold" standazds, and Proposition V, with the understanding that projects not in compliance with the latter aze required by law to gain a unanimous council vote to win approval. 8/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 32. Adopt an ordinance requiring all development agreements to contain provisions halting development where the "threshold" standards aze not met. 8/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 33. Adopt an ordinance amending the "threshold standards to measure compliance by impacts on cost and quality, as well as quantity, of city services, and by impacts on public safety. 8/20/90 - MSUC to continue this remaining pulled Item to nett meeting. 9/10/90 - MSUP to continue this item until the October 1st meeting when input is received from the Planning Dept. as to how they will accomplish this goal, what measures to use, and the impact on public safety. 34. Adopt an ordinance requiring new developments to show they will pay their own way in staffmg needs as well as capital improvements. 8/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 7 35. Send a letter from the City Council to the Growth Management Oversight Committee, the Planning Commission, the Pazks and Recreation Commission and the Resource Conservation Commission emphasizing the council's intent to give these bodies the widest possible latitude to develop policy recommendations for the council. 8/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 36. Adopt a Tree Preservation Ordinance. $/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 37. Direct staff to consider a future Arbor Day program similaz to that being implemented this yeaz in Escondido. $/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 38. Direct staff to prepaze an RFP for a study (to be done jointly with neighboring jurisdictions if they wish) to identify future job demands and training needs in our locale and to recommend education, training and economic development measures, with assistance from a city Economic Development Commission. 8/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 39. Duect staff to work with the Environmental Heal Coalition to develop a model Toxic Waste Reduction Ordinance. 8/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 40. Send letters from the city to legislators and local judges reiterating our desire for greater protection -tougher sentencine - of methamphetamine manufacturers. 8/20/90 - MSUC to continue this remaining pulled Item to next meeting. 1 ! - MSUP for council to send letters from the city to legislators and local judges reiterating our desire for greater protection from methamphetamine manufacturers and other illegal drugs, by tougher sentencing. Item #40(a) - It was MSUP (Ghougassian/Ray) to rescind the previous motion on Item #40 as just approved, to amend the motion to reflect the same language as previously stated, and to adopt Item #40 as Item #40(a) to read, "Council to send appropriate letters in sentencing proceedings involving illegal drug activity in Chula Vista, reminding judges of the seriousness of this activity and the need for protecting the public." 8 41. Send appropriate letters in sentencing proceedings involving methamphetamine manufacturing in Chula Vista, reminding judges of the seriousness of this activity and the need for protecting the public. 8/20/90 -MSUC to continue this remaining pulled Item to next meeting. 9/10/90 - MSUP for wuncil to send appropriate letters in sentencing proceedings involving methamphetamine manufacturing and illegal drug activity in Chula Vista, reminding judges of the seriousness of this activity and the need for protecting the public. g~(~ 9/10/90 - MSUP to amend Item #41 to #41(a), and to change the language to read, "Council to send appropriate letters in sentencing proceedings involving illegal drug activity in Chula Vista, reminding judges of the seriousness of this activity and the need for protecting the public." 42. Establish a program for collecting all recyclable materials (glass, aluminum, paper) generated at City Hall. 8/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 43. Establish a timetable for citywide curbside recycling. 8/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal: 44. Adopt a program similar to Irvine's to restrict the sale and use of unnecessary products harming the environment through owne depletion and non-recyclability. 8/20/90 -MSUC to continue this remaining pulled Item to next meeting 9/10/90 - MSUP to continue this item until October lst when there is further review of Mr. Peace's bill. 45. Duect our staff to establish neighborhood recycling centers and negotiate appropriate pickup services. 8/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 46. Adopt an ordinance requiring new development to provide recycling facilities. $!20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. C9 47. Adopt a Tonics Disclosure Ordinance. 8/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 48. Empower the Resource Conservation Commission to review generation and uses of tonic waste in Chula Vista, and make recommendations for reductions. $/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 49. Direct our staff to provide us with an interim updated report on alternatives to continued participation in or payment for the Metro sewer system, including alternative treatment technologies. 8/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 50. Direct our staff to implement enhanced streetsweeping prior to forecast storms. 8/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 51. Establish a Conservation Finance Authority to provide low- and no- interest loans to homeowners and businesses for capital improvements conserving energy and water. 8/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 52. Adopt an ordinance requiring retrofit of residential buildings at time of sale with simple, cost-effective conservation technology (insulation and low-flow futures), using funding from the Conservation Finance Authority and Development Impact Fees assessed on developments consuming energy and water resources. 8/20/90 - MSUC to continue this remaining pulled Items to nett meeting. 9/10190 - MSUP to continue this item until October 1st meeting, time permitting, when Councilman Nader or city attorney is contacted for further information. It is further requested that staff be present or have a comment draft from the Planning Dept. regarding this item. 53. Adopt an ordinance requiring new developments to use drought-tolerant landscaping, and to include CC&R's requiring drought-tolerant landscaping. $/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 54. Duect our staff to prepare a plan for expanded use of reclaimed water in city facilities. $/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 10 55. Establish neighborhood planning groups to provide input on development and planning proposals affecting the community. 8/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 56. Direct the Resource Conservation Commission to provide or arrange for quarterly articles on local environmental issues in our city newsletter, and to work with the city's public information coordinator to develop better communication with the public on environmental and planning issues. 8/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. 57. Drrect staff, through our FY 1990-91 budget, to either hire a staff person at the Deputy City Manager level with a solid environmentalist background, or to retain private environmental expert to work directly with city policy makers on all policy issues having environmental implications. $/20/90 -Recommended that City Council adopt as goal. ***.. RECOMMENDATION BY RCC TO CREATE COMMiJNITY- PLANNING GROUPS: 8/20/90 - MSUC to continue this to the next meeting so that Mr. Ghougassian can study this further. 9/10/90 -Continued as it did not appear on agenda. 10/22/90 -The agenda item regarding recommendations to City Council regarding Community Planning Committee was continued to next meeting. 11/12/90 - It was MSUP to continue the recommendation to the City Council regarding a Community Planning Committee until member Fox is present. 11 Items for Council Action from "Environmental Agenda for the 90's 1. Council policy to undertake no further east-west streets or widenings for accommodation of more eastwazd development until planning is completed for new east-west public transit. 2. A General Plan amendment precluding further approvals of major new projects which would have been illegal prior to the General Plan Revision of 1989 until the issues raised by council referrals on General Plan issues -provision of public transit, protection of residential neighborhoods from increased traffic, and a Growth Management Flement to the General Plan have been resolved. 3. Duetting staff to prepaze a long-term plan for the construction of a citywide system of bicycle lanes to make bicycling convenient and safe throughout the city, with a phased plan for implementation through the capital improvements budget. 4. Anew zoning ordinance requiring mites uses (e.g., neighborhood commercial and residential) within walking distance of each other in new development, and facilitating mixes uses consistent with community character in previously built azeas, subject to design review. 5. Anew street design ordinance, requiring new streets to be designed to be driven at a safe speed for pedestrians (not just motorists), prohibiting high-speed design on residential streets and near schools and senior centers, and requiring the provision of usable and safe bicycle lanes. 6. A zoning ordinance requiring new employment centers to be situated within convenient walking distance of public transit services, with provisions for partnerships between developers and the city for the provision of such services where feasible. 7. A Transportation Demand Management Ordinance. This ordinance would require large employers, including the City, to prepaze plans for a reduction in "drive alone" commutes during peak hours of over 50% within five yeazs. Measures in transportation demand management plans could include carpooling, transit and bicycle incentives, flex hours and alternative workweeks, hiring from residential areas neaz the place of employment, or other measures to be determined in each plan. Plans should be monitored for compliance with goals, and goals should be periodically evaluated for their ability to achieve healthier air. 8. Adoption of a city government transportation demand management plan in advance of the effective date of the above ordinance, including the measures listed above. 9. Direct staff to prepare a plan for the construction, through the capital improvements process (or with redevelopment funds in appropriate areas) of secure bicycle parking facilities at city facilities and commercial centers, giving priority to locations at businesses wishing to provide such improvements in partnership with the city. Page 2 10. Adoption of an ordinance prohibiting contracts for EIRs which do not require the best possible quantification of impacts in areas mandated by CEQA, and prohibiting payment for unacceptable E1Rs. 11. Direct staff to identify projects impacting Chula Vista where environmental and traffic forecasts on which policy makers relied turned out to be seriously wrong, to hire a consultant not connected to any such projects to conduct a study of how they went wrong, and to provide recommendations for correcting the process in the future, as well as on any remedies the city may have. 12. Request a staff report on current air quality maintenance programs for city equipment, with recommendations for improvements if appropriate. 13. Adopt an ordinance containing a preferential procurement policy for clean fuels (within realistic economic parameters) and requiring an annual public report on implementation. 14. Send a letter from the City Council to Mayor O'Connor of San Diego, the Chair of the County Board of Supervisors, and the mayors of the other cities in the county asking them to join in a cooperative effort to explore the feasibility and desirability of creating a public energy distribution utility while opening energy production to the free mazket. 15. Direct our staff, as intervenors in any proceeding concerning proposals for new SDG&E facilities in Chula Vista, to demand proof of air quality claims, and to oppose any such proposals in the absence of proof that they will improve our air quality and that SDG&E will be held to any assurances it gives by the prospect of meaningful penalties for violations of any agreements. 16. Send a letter to the California Energy Commission outlining our agreement with SDG&E concerning the rezone of their Chula Vista land and putting on the record of any Energy Commission proceeding the invalidity under that agreement of any implication that new industrial uses by SDG&E on our bayfront are consistent with local land use regulations. 17. Consider an Open Space zone alternative for at least part of the SDG&E bayfront property. 18. Adopt an indoor smoking law patterned after San Diego County's. 19. Direct staff to report on the possible establishment of a fund, similar to that proposed at the federal level by the Environmental Defense Fund, to subsidize the removal of lead from older Chula Vista homes. This report should include an analysis of need, and, if the need is shown, of possible funding sources, e.g., a ballot measure to tax lead products. Page 3 20. Direct staff to prepaze a policy, with input from the Environmental Health Coalition and appropriate others, to eliminate the use of polluting chemicals by the city and prescribing alternatives. 21. Adopt a city policy to identify and prohibit the purchase of any unnecessary products the production, use, or disposal of which is harmful to the earth's ozone layer, and assure that all staff with purchasing authority receive a copy. 22. Adopt an ordinance requiring work on automobile air conditioners to be performed with equipment to prevent the escape of ozone-depleting chemicals into the environment, with the effective date delayed until a similar ordinance is adopted in all jurisdictions in the county. 23. Add support for the Bates ozone layer protection bill to the city's legislative program. 24. Add support for Assemblyman Peace's A.B. 1332 to phase out chlorofluorocarbons from automobile air conditioning by 1995 to the city's legislative program. 25. Hold off on further tentative map approvals for major projects relying on the 1989 General Plan revision until that revision - including a Growth Management Element with implementation measures - is complete. 26. Adopt an ordinance requiring new developments to be considered by the Pazks and Recreation Commission, with that commission's recommendation being put before the City Council at the time of any council action, and prohibiting council approval prior to such input. 27. Adopt an ordinance for the creation of open space and pazks acquisition assessment districts. 28. Adopt an Open Space zone. 29. Adopt an ordinance requiring redevelopment plans to be considered by the Planning Commission and the Resource Conservation Commission prior to City Council action. 30. Adopt a Sensitive Lands Ordinance for the protection of slopes, canyons, riparian habitats and other environmentally sensitive lands. 31. Adopt a policy requiring certification, prior to approval, of projects' wmpliance with the General Plan Growth Management Element, the "Threshold" standards, and Proposition V, with the understanding that projects not in compliance with the latter are requued by law to gain a unanimous council vote to win approval. 32. Adopt an ordinance requiring all development agreements to contain provisions halting development where the "threshold" standazds aze not met. Page 4 33. Adopt an ordinance amending the 'threshold standards to measure compliance by impacts on cost and quality, as well as quantity, of city services, and by impacts on public safety. 34. Adopt an ordinance requiring new developments to show they will pay thew own way in staffing needs as well as capital improvements. 35. Send a letter from the City Council to the Growth Management Oversight Committee, the Planning Commission, the Parks and Recreation Commission and the Resource Conservation Commission emphasizing the council's intent to give these bodies the widest possible latitude to develop policy recommendations for the council. 36. Adopt a Tree Preservation Ordinance. 37. Duect staff to consider a future Arbor Day program similar to that being implemented this year in Escondido. 38. Drrect staff to prepare an RFP for a study (to be done jointly with neighboring jurisdictions if they wish) to identify future job demands and training needs in our locale and to recommend education, training and economic development measures, with assistance from a city Economic Development Commission. 39. Direct staff to work with the Environmental Heal Coalition to develop a model Toxic Waste Reduction Ordinance. 40. Send letters from the city to legislators and local judges reiterating our desire for greater protection -toucher sentencine - of methamphetamine manufacturers. 41. Send appropriate letters in sentencing proceedings involving methamphetamine manufacturing in Chula Vista, reminding judges of the seriousness of this activity and the need for protecting the public. 42. Establish a program for collecting all recyclable materials (glass, aluminum, paper) generated at City Hall. 43. Establish a timetable for citywide curbside recycling. 44. Adopt a program similar to Irvine's to restrict the sale and use of unnecessary products harming the environment through ozone depletion and non-recyclability. 45. Direct our staff to establish neighborhood recycling centers and negotiate appropriate pickup services. Page 5 46. Adopt an ordinance requiring new development to provide recycling facilities. 47. Adopt a Tonics Disclosure Ordinance. 48. Empower the Resource Conservation Commission to review generation and uses of toxic waste in Chula Vista, and make recommendations for reductions. 49. Direct our staff to provide us with an interim updated report on alternatives to continued participation in or payment for the Metro sewer system, including alternative treatment technologies. 50. Duect our staff to implement enhanced streetsweeping prior to forecast storms. 51. Establish a Conservation Finance Authority to provide low- and no- interest loans to homeowners and businesses for capital improvements conserving energy and water. 52. Adopt an ordinance requiring retrofit of residential buildings at time of sale with simple, cost-effective conservation technology (insulation and low-flow fixtures), using funding from the Conservation Finance Authority and Development Impact Fees assessed on developments consuming energy and water resources. 53. Adopt an ordinance requiring new developments to use drought-tolerant landscaping, and to include CC&R's requiring drought-tolerant landscaping. 54. Duect our staff to prepare a plan for expanded use of reclaimed water in city facilities. 55. Establish neighborhood planning groups to provide input on development and planning proposals affecting the community. 56. Direct the Resource Conservation Commission to provide or arrange for quarterly articles on local environmental issues in our city newsletter, and to work with the city's public information coordinator to develop better communication with the public on environmental and planning issues. 57. Direct staff, through our FY 1990-91 budget, to either hire a staff person at the Deputy City Manager level with a solid environmentalist background, or to retain private environmental expert to work duectly with city policymakers on all policy issues having environmental implications.