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Planning commission upholds department's negative declaration for hauling city waste to Recology Hay Road landfill
Summary
After contested appeals, the San Francisco Planning Commission unanimously upheld the planning department's preliminary negative declaration for a proposed agreement to send municipal solid waste to the Recology Hay Road landfill in Solano County, finding no substantial evidence of significant impacts under CEQA.
The San Francisco Planning Commission on May 21 upheld the planning department's preliminary negative declaration for an agreement to haul the city's municipal solid waste to the Recology Hay Road landfill in Solano County, a decision the commission approved unanimously.
The decision centered on environmental analysis under the California Environmental Quality Act. Planning staff argued the project involves no physical change within San Francisco and that the increment in truck trips and emissions relative to the existing baseline (hauling to Altamont) would not exceed thresholds of significance. "Our initial study shows that the project does not have significant impacts, and that's why we published the…
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