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Commission backs stronger clean-construction rules for high-exposure zones

San Francisco Commission on the Environment · May 27, 2014
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Summary

The commission approved a resolution supporting amendments to the city's Clean Construction Ordinance to require cleaner construction equipment in mapped air-pollution exposure zones, add monitoring and align requirements with CEQA, following a joint presentation from the planning department and public health.

The San Francisco Commission on the Environment voted to approve a resolution supporting proposed amendments to the city’s Clean Construction Ordinance, which would add requirements for cleaner engines and monitoring in mapped "air pollutant exposure zones." Planning Department staff and Department of Public Health representatives presented the update and explained its purpose: protect public health by reducing exhaust from construction equipment on public-works projects.

Wade Wickref of the Planning Department said the existing ordinance, adopted in 2007 and effective in 2009, applies to publicly funded…

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