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Jonathan Wachtell, deputy executive director for the Office of Climate Action, Sustainability and Resiliency, told the committee staff aimed to make Waste No More “implementable in the way possible,” balancing voter intent with market capacity and agency resources. Wachtell and staff described market constraints for construction and demolition (C&D) materials, organics processors and the risk of contamination that can cause loads to be rejected at processors.

Key staff proposals and timelines
- Construction and demolition: Staff proposes a 50% diversion requirement (by weight or tonnage of covered materials) for covered C&D projects, applying to demolition and construction permits with exemptions for hazardous‑materials abatement, projects under 500 square feet, quick permits (HVAC, electrical) and certain interior remodels under 2,500 square feet. Staff recommended an April 2026 enforcement start and a security‑deposit/refund approach to incentivize compliance.
- Special events: Staff recommended applying requirements to permitted events on public property, with exemptions for events under 350 attendees and an administrative exemption process for economic hardship or where services are unavailable. Staff said contamination risk is high at public bins and that staffing and education are often needed; estimates presented by the special‑events office put hauling‑cost increases for events at roughly 10–20% in some cases.
- Multi‑family housing and nonresidential buildings: Staff proposed aligning multi‑family recycling requirements with the state Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) recycling program and tentatively targeting an April 2026 start for covered obligations; staff said space constraints, building configuration and the need for property‑by‑property outreach would require a strong education and technical‑assistance effort.
- Food‑waste producers (restaurants, grocery stores, food processors): Staff asked council for direction on phasing and thresholds. One option staff presented would require recycling and organics for the largest facilities (e.g., those over 15,000 square feet) beginning April 2026 and give smaller food establishments more time to comply because of economic‑impact concerns in the restaurant industry.

Staff emphasized enforcement by education and permitting, requiring waste‑diversion plans for covered entities and reserving enforcement actions as a last resort. Wachtell said the city will develop administrative regulations, forms and outreach materials over 2025 and return with ordinance language for Council action in May. He asked council members for feedback on exemption thresholds and sequencing.

Council members raised specific operational concerns: Rose Watts, director of special events, said the city’s events office has struggled to secure haulers for weekend and summer event pickups and estimated a 10–20% increase in hauling costs for events that add composting or staffed sorters. Community Planning and Development staff (Jill Jennings Golic) said the department is studying security‑deposit approaches used by other Colorado jurisdictions but must balance incentives with construction costs in Denver. Council members asked staff to provide more detailed market‑capacity data (processor addresses and throughput), example hauling quotes for representative building and business types, proposed security‑deposit amounts and clearer definitions for de‑minimis waste thresholds and economic‑hardship exemptions.

Next steps: Staff said it will return to committee on May 7 with proposed ordinance language and will continue interagency rulemaking, outreach to affected sectors and development of permitting and diversion‑plan templates. The committee took the briefing for discussion; the item was informational and no committee vote on the ordinance was taken.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Denver Business, Arts, Workforce, Climate & Aviation Services Committee on 2025-03-19","oneSentenceSummary","Tim Hoffman of the mayor’s office introduced an informational briefing on proposed updates to the Waste No More ordinance, which Denver voters approved in 2022. “This is an informational briefing only,” Hoffman said, and the administration told the committee it planned to return with ordinance language and an action item to the business committee on May 7.","taxTitle","Denver (Consolidated County and City), Colorado","taxId",3557,"location","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":76,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":77,"_41":78,"_43":79,"_45":79,"_47":80,"_49":81,"_51":82,"_53":83,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":84,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":85,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6110454,"Denver International Airport demonstrates predictive asset‑management dashboard to council committee",0,1792740,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2757466-40f4934e2de0764699f4700c8228118e&start=1792&end=1792","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2757466-40f4934e2de0764699f4700c8228118e/thumbnail_1792740.jpg","/articles/6110454/Denver-Consolidated-County-and-City/Colorado/Denver-International-Airport-demonstrates-predictive-assetmanagement-dashboard-to-council-committee","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6110454-3482c10c890c6738a6d811b292082464/orig.mp4?Expires=1771186584&Signature=BNFmYEYyqjyh~pqImOHew2F-Gx2yiSEbD~5HWI1i7BriZAMPdt3eEArj9ByM04eX6FUSEpNbxXLOe37RMYey0W9l8p9rvU3k-yXAEgltcBAlEF9jYfw-1KGAS17hJIPxzHNYTAvv3CAXoI3fJQdCiCXmWwHNAY7RjUHhsyhIlJqRy8oqxx9jQ5ztllN1LaHu1lwKWxBF57xkJkvJgYNeV~s8nJY8N2airUD7-QQBd11x6HcAdpnRiYCFu0s3AtFCCtgZLk8U46bljLGgJhmz4hTIRE3up7-uXcwbnnFeIy3~ko2PWIOL67fytCHJo~2BLP~YcOeTlEKZUmGxQfPMtQ__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Denver International Airport Chief Operating Officer Dave LaPorte and airport asset managers presented the airport’s predictive asset‑management program to the Business, Arts, Workforce, Climate and Aviation Services Committee, demonstrating a live dashboard that airport staff said shows current risk, remaining useful life and long‑term rehabilitation and replacement costs.

Brian Holden, Senior Director for Asset Management at Denver International Airport, introduced the presentation and turned the briefing to the asset team. The presenter described how the airport transitioned from a reactive maintenance approach to a predictive, whole‑life asset‑management program. “This is actually the dashboard, and this is live, so this is actually going live to Denver,” the presenter said while showing a matrix that plots about 26,000 vertical assets by consequence and likelihood of failure.

Key figures shown to the committee included an average asset age of about 12.35 years, an average risk score around 8 on a 1–25 scale, and a replacement‑value snapshot the presenter described as “$2,000,000,000.” The dashboard allows staff to filter by location, asset group and year and to project rehabilitation and replacement costs across a 30‑year horizon. The presenter said the system can surface multi‑year spikes — for example, several central‑plant cooling towers approaching end of life — and allow planners and maintenance managers to run engineering studies or re‑evaluate maintenance strategies.

Committee members asked about scope and level of detail. Staff said an asset is typically defined as any item with a value over $5,000 and expected life over one year, so the system groups some items (for example, restroom systems) rather than tracking every fixture. Airport staff said vertical assets (buildings, equipment) were entered first; this year the airport has begun condition assessments for horizontal assets, including roughly 200 miles of sanitary, storm and other piping. The presenter said the horizontal condition assessment is a multi‑year effort that began with jetting and CCTV inspection of pipes and that staff had already found a noncritical crack in a pipe that would be repaired.

Officials described steps to institutionalize the program beyond a small number of staff who developed the dashboard internally. The airport said much of the work to populate the system has been done in‑house (the presenter mentioned a single staffer, “Frankie,” who had led dashboard work), and the next stage is to document and institutionalize the process so it can be sustained and scaled.

Council members asked about the tool’s utility for bond planning and for sharing the approach with other city departments. The airport said the data will be usable for capital improvement planning, preventive maintenance optimization and, over time, for AI‑driven predictive alerts tied to Internet‑of‑Things monitoring. The presentation ended with committee members expressing strong interest in broader city uses and in receiving follow‑up information about staffing and annual costs for the asset‑management program.","Airport officials showed a live asset‑management dashboard that inventories 26,000 vertical assets, projects 30‑year rehab/replacement needs and begins adding 200 miles of underground pipe assessments; officials said the tool will inform capital planning and maintenance priorities.",{"_33":87,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":88,"_41":78,"_43":89,"_45":89,"_47":90,"_49":91,"_51":92,"_53":93,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":94,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":95,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6110459,"Council committee advances Peña Boulevard NEPA and design services to full City Council",4149000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2757466-40f4934e2de0764699f4700c8228118e&start=4149&end=4149","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2757466-40f4934e2de0764699f4700c8228118e/thumbnail_4149000.jpg","/articles/6110459/Denver-Consolidated-County-and-City/Colorado/Council-committee-advances-Peña-Boulevard-NEPA-and-design-services-to-full-City-Council","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6110459-1df661a652334cb77c95befef907df85/orig.mp4?Expires=1771186584&Signature=N~FdxkwRq8D3lyWY8PZET0P4LXghaQisvm8a0sZ3~a6~4HdXeD8xvmFDExm46r6~H~gNGZgJwsYU-aKEzGegHGLmD9b1sim7Z4Uabq-8hPIHx7C9Vu4jvz51vkck6QRmwVMtIoA9peoXDM~5R~6hRbqL-ozaiDoywG8nA7KVfGZXnmwtCwX-0IzvGTWMtaeu4mNpfNHS0i56nfhZhnVkQyReEtRfpedGKRap-qg60kKsoJ48zpN9swUihX9FNN4-nEmSnuebqjVWzayHq7qw8G1M6qmKdZ8PM2ek2cW-cMkqZEkm7DHOXEGEmp3AAAAsw8A8xPlph1zc6qTy4kD2DA__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Councilwoman Chantal Lewis, chair of the Business, Arts, Workforce, Climate and Aviation Services Committee (District 8), said the committee had postponed the Peña Boulevard item and set a 30‑minute limit for discussion. Denver International Airport CEO Phil Washington told the committee the action before the panel would fund public engagement and environmental study work under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and clarified that “nothing precludes the consultant from studying additional alternatives.” Washington also said airport leaders had identified 20 recommendations in a Transportation Demand Management (TDM) plan and “committed to $4,000,000 to look to implement those.”

The committee’s discussion focused on whether the NEPA study would examine rail and other transit alternatives for the A Line and how jurisdictional and revenue‑diversion constraints could limit implementation. Council members pressed the airport on whether it would take an active role to secure funding and partnerships with the Regional Transportation District (RTD) and city leaders to ensure any rail or transit options would be meaningfully studied. Phil Washington said DEN was “committed to being active and truly trying to figure all this out” with RTD, while also noting RTD had previously said it had no money to implement A Line improvements.

After roughly 30 minutes of committee questions and clarifications about NEPA scoping and the TDM program, the committee took a roll‑call vote to advance the procurement and NEPA authorization to the full City Council. The vote recorded in committee: Alvidrez — aye; Flynn — aye; Gilmore — aye; Parody — nay; Sandoval — aye; Chair Lewis — aye. The chair announced “5 ayes” and said the item “will go to the full body for further consideration.”

The airport emphasized that the NEPA contract includes capacity to study alternatives that may arise through public engagement, but that the airport judged a transit‑only solution unlikely to meet the NEPA “purpose and need” for the Peña project without separate funding commitments. Committee members said they wanted an active airport role in pursuing funding partnerships so consultants would have the resources to evaluate rail, double‑tracking, station changes and other transit infrastructure in the corridor.

Council members also sought more data on airport employee travel patterns, including separation of employee trips from traveler trips and clarification of ZIP‑code mapping (the airport noted some employee records use an airport address rather than home address in the data). The airport said it had convened or planned meetings with RTD leadership and city staff and that the mayor had offered to host a broader meeting with RTD board members.

What’s next: The committee approved forwarding the Peña Boulevard NEPA and design services solicitation to the full City Council. If the full Council approves the solicitation and contract, the airport will proceed with NEPA scoping, public engagement and the TDM implementation work already funded in part by the $4 million commitment the airport described.","The Business, Arts, Workforce, Climate and Aviation Services Committee voted to advance Denver International Airport’s Peña Boulevard NEPA and design services contract to the full City Council after questioning about transit alternatives and funding for transportation demand management.","actionData","errors"]

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City staff unveil proposed changes to Waste No More implementation; April 2026 enforcement dates floated

Denver International Airport demonstrates predictive asset‑management dashboard to council committee

Council committee advances Peña Boulevard NEPA and design services to full City Council