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Committee Approves Revised Recycling and Auto‑Parts Code Updates; Adds Faster Timelines, Fire-Prevention Plans and 12‑Month Three‑Strike Rule
Summary
The committee approved updates to the city code regulating metal recycling entities (MRE) and used auto parts recyclers (UAPR), including a faster timeline for correcting violations, new enforcement options, a 1,000‑foot separation requirement for new facilities, mandated fire-prevention plans, and a new definition for metal shredder residue.
The Planning and Community Development Committee voted to send a package of revisions to Chapter 16 of the city code—targeted at metal recycling entities (MREs) and used auto parts recyclers (UAPRs)—to the full City Council. The recommended changes followed more than a dozen task force meetings and weeks of industry and community stakeholder negotiation.
City staff and task force members described the principal code changes: a requirement that most violations be corrected within two business days or face citation; the ability to use civil administrative citations (in addition to municipal criminal citations) for faster adjudication; a reduction of the ‘three‑strike’ licensing threshold to three citations within a 12‑month rolling period (down from 18 months) allowing license suspension or revocation; an explicit authority for the director to require…
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