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Commission backs resolution urging Board to support updated construction‑and‑demolition ordinance, citing illegal dumping and climate impacts
Summary
The commission voted to support a proposed update to the city's 2006 construction and demolition (C&D) recovery ordinance, endorsing a tiered fee‑based permit for haulers, a dedicated enforcement fund, and phased operative dates; commissioners said the change will help intercept illegal dumping and reduce embodied carbon.
The San Francisco Commission on the Environment voted to advance a resolution urging the Board of Supervisors to support an update to the city's 2006 construction and demolition debris recovery ordinance, a measure staff said is intended to reduce illegal dumping, strengthen enforcement of haulers and facilities, and cut embodied carbon from building waste.
"Every year we're averaging about a million and a half tons of construction and demolition discards," James Slattery, the department's zero‑waste C&D coordinator, told commissioners, describing the volume of material produced…
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