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Santa Monlca, Californla November 19,
To: Mayor and City Council
From: Clty Staff
SubJect: A Recommendatlon to Appeal to the Clty of
Los Angeles to Approve Continuing Refuse
Operations at M1SSlon Canyon.
Introductlon
ThlS report recomwends the Mayor or his deslgnee be authorlzed to
appear at the Los Angeles Planning Commission hearlngs to request
continuatlon of use of Misslon Canyon, with conditions.
Background
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The r-1isslon Cany,
is owned by the Los Angeles
County Sanitation
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of Los Angeles. The canyon
Conditlonal Use PE
presently beinq used wlll be filled to capacity ~n about 6 to 8
months.
The Los Angeles County Sanitatlon Dlstrict has applied to the City
of Los Angeles for a Conditional Use Per~lt to allow continuation
of the sanitary landfill in Misslon Canyon. The public hearing on
this matter will be held on December 11, 1980.
The
residents
surrounding
the landflll have opposed this
contlnuation of the area for landfill use quite vocally. The Clty
of Los Angeles Sanitation Bureau,
the cities of Culver City,
Beverly EllIs and almost every user agency has gone on record in
support of the landfill use.
The attorneys representing the
residents have suggested that If recycling and reclamation are
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practiced there would be no need for the landfill. This ignores
the fact that under the best of C1rcumstances only 10-20% can be
removed from the waste streaM.
A s1te for disposing of the
rema1n1ng 80-90%
is needed. Misslon Canyon has been used for
more than 25 years for this purposer a far longer time than any of
the res1dences which now surround the slte.
IMpact
If a Conditional Use Perm1t 1S denied, all users of Mission Canyon
must find a new disposal site.
Santa Monica intends to go to
Puente Hills, another County Sanitation D1str1ct landfill.
It is
about 10 miles to Miss10n Canyon and about 30 miles to Puente
H111s.
Following are some of the negative results to the regional
area if Mission Canyon is closed.
1. An additlonal 1,000,000 pounds of air pollutants per year.
2. An add1tional 10.8 roillion vehicle miles per year.
3. An additional 1.8 million gallons of fuel per year.
4. Alternative landfill site 1ncreased usage.
5. An adoltional $18,000,000 annually to the total refuse
disposal costs.
This means that Santa Monica wlll be forced to increase fuel,
veh1cle and manpower expenditures by approx1mately $300,000 and to
increase refuse rates correspondingly.
Alternatives
If Miss10n Canyon 1S closed the refuse from approxiMately 2
@llllon people 1n Los Angeles, Inglewood,
Culver City, Beverly
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Hills,
Santa Monica and the county areas will necessarily be
transported to Puente Hllls in the eastern portlon of the county.
The alternatives for Santa Bonica at thls time are:
1. Vigorously support the Los Angeles Sanltatlon Distrlct in
their attempt to obtain a Condltional Use Permit from the Clty
of Los Angeles to operate a sanitary landfill in Mission
Canyon for approximately 12 years.
2. Give no support to the Los Angeles County Sanitation District.
Recomrnenda tions
Staff
recommends Alternative No.
1 be adopted and Council
authorlze the Mayor (or his designee)
to attend the December 11,
1980 ~eeting of the Los Angeles City Planning ComW1SSlon for the
purpose of expresSlng the desires of 90,800 Santa Monlca Citizens.
Prepared by: Stan Scholl
Doug McAteer
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MEMSERSOF THE BOARD
383 HALL OF ADMI"IISTRATION . LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA 90012
PETER F SCHA8ARUM
KEN~ ETH HAHN
EDMUND D EDELMAN
JAMES A HAYES
BAXTER WARD
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
JA'VlES S MIZE EXECUTIVE OFF;CER
RICHARD A SCHOENI, A55T EXEC O"FICER
(2131 974-1411
March 31, 1978
Joyce Snider, City Clerk
Clty of Santa Monlca
1685 Main Street
Santa Mon1ca, Ca11forn1a 90401
Dear Ms. Snider:
At the Board of Supervlsors' meeting held March 28, 1978,
Supervisor Kenneth Hahn's attached motion re1at1ng to
Mission Canyon Landfill, was adopted. Supervisor Hahn
would like this information to reach each council member
~n your city.
Very truly yours,
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JAMES S. MIZE
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!lOTION BY SUPERVISOR KENNETH HAHN
March 28, 1978
The main Mission Canyon Landfill site was purchased by the
Board of Sunervisors in 1957 to serve one million people.
It opened 1n 1960 and was used until 1965 when an arrange-
ment was made to dump on nearby land, owned by Barclay
Hollander, for six cents a ton. The main M1ssion Canyon
site was to be saved to be used when the Barclay Hollander
land was full.
That property will be full by July I, 1978.
Anticlpat1ng the need to begin disposing trash in the main
canyon, the County Sanitation Districts began application
work five years ago.
On November 18, 1976, the Los Angeles C1ty Planning Commis-
sion turned down the application of the Sanitation Districts
for a condit1onal use permit to operate main ~ission Canyon
(since the landfill is with1n the city Ilmits of Los Angeles,
the Planning Commission must give approval).
An appeal was filed by the Sanitatlon Districts.
In March, 1977, the Los Angeles C1ty Council denied the appeal.
Supervisors Baxter Ward, Pete Schabarum and Kenneth Hahn
personally appeared before the city Council to speak in favor
of the landfill being opened.
The City Planning Commission outlined 12 reasons for denying
the application. Most of these were environmental reasons
and questions over whether all alternatives to sanitary land-
f1lls had been considered. Four volumes of information, SlX
inches thick, were submitted to the city as part of the
Sanitation Districts' appl1cation.
The new questions can be answered by the Sanitat10n Distr1cts
to the satisfaction of all concerned. An amended envlronmental
impact report and new application for a conditional use permit
to operate the main Mission Canyon slte should be filed with
Los Angeles city forthwith.
At stake are millions of dollars of public funds.
The main Miss10n Canyon has a capaclty of 40 million tons. To
haul trash to more distant landfills would cost at least $10
per ton more.
That means to close ~ission Canyon and haul the trash elsewhere
will cost the pub11C a minimum of $400 m1llion over the life-
span of the landfill.
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An alternative plan has received approval from the city. This
would be a temporary stopgap that would help for about three
years. It would use another canyon, number 8, on Barclay
Hollander land.
But it would cost $4 million in fees to the pr~vate landowner
and would raise dump fees to $3.50 per ton, from the present
$2.50 per ton -- a 40 percent increase.
Such a fee increase at one landfill undoubtedly would lead to
sim~lar ~ncreases at all others. Traditionally, the County
charges the same rates at all of ~ts landfills.
There are 10 m~lllon tons of -trash dlsposed of In Los Angeles~
County every year. Therefore, raising the fees by $1, as
would be requlred ~f Canyon 8 ~s used, would cost the public
$10 mll1ion per year.
If Mission Canyon closes, the materlal would have to be dumped
in private s~tes. This also would lead to higher dump~ng
charges.
For example, lt costs $14.10 per ton to dump in San Francisco.
If that were the countywide cost in Los Angeles, the public
would be paying $116 ml11ion per year more -- more than $1
billion over the next 10 years.
Openlng the main Mission Canyon slte 1S the key to keeping
economical and efficient trash dlsposal in Los Angeles County.
THEREFORE, I ~OVE the Board of Superv~sors of the County of
Los Angeles instruct the General ~1anager of the Sanitatlon
Dlstricts to prepare and file an amended environmental impact
report and application for a cond1t~onal use permit with the
Clty of Los Angeles to operate the main Mission Canyon Sanltary
Landfill.
I FURTHER MOVE the Board of Supervlsors respectfully request
the Planning Commission and the City Councll of Los Angeles to
glve its immed1ate attentlon to this application so it may be
approved in time for the Sanltat10n Distrlcts to begin using
the landfill when the present canyons are filled thls summer.
Kenneth Hahn
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MEMBeRS OF THE SOARD
3B3 HALL 0"- ADM'NISTRATJON 'LOS ANGELES CALJf:'ORNlA 90012
PHER F SCHABARUM
KENNETH HAHN
EDMUND D fDElMAN
JAI,\ES A llAYES
BIl,XTER WARD
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
JAMES S MJZE, EXECUTIVE OFFICER
RICHARD A SCHOENI ASST EXEC OF FleE R
(213) 974-1411
Apr.l1 6, 1978
Joyce Snlder, C.lty Clerk
Clty of Santa Monlca
1685 Maln Street
Santa Mon.lca, Callfornia 90401
Dear Ms. Snlder:
At lts meetlng held April 4, 1978, the Board of Supervlsors
of the County of Los Angeles adopted the attached rnot2on by
SuperVlsor Kenneth Hahn.
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MOTION BY SUPERVISOR KENNETH HAHN
I MOVE the General Manager of the County Sanitation Districts
be instructed to report on the status of conditional use per-
mits and other requirements for keeping county-operated sani-
tary landfills open.
The landfills are Palos Verdes, Spadra, Mission Canyon, Scholl
Canyon, Calabasas and Puente Hills.
I FURTHER MOVE the General Manager be instructed to file and
process all legal documents for the continuation of all six
dump sites.
There are problems at four of the dumps.
being blocked by the City of Los Angeles.
public $400 mill~on, over the lifespan of
transport trash to more distant sites.
Mission Canyon is
It will cost the
the main canyon, to
The Conditional Use Perm1t for Scholl canyon will expire on
November 27, 1978.
Renewal efforts are needed for Puente Hills.
And, Palos Verdes only has another two years to go before it
becomes full and will have to be closed.
There are 10 m1llion tons of trash disposed of in Los Angeles
County every year.
There will be a crisis with panic decisions unless the County
Sanitation Districts landfills remain open for the public and
continue to charge reasonable fees.
The present County rate is $2.50 per ton. It costs $14.10 per
ton to dump trash in San Francisco.
If Los Angeles County landfills close and the San Francisco
rate eventually is charged, it will cost the public $116 mil110n
more per year--more than $1 ril110n over 10 years.
Kenneth Hahn
The forego~ng was on the fourth day of Apr~l, 1978, adopted by
the Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles, and ex-
off~c~o the governing body of all o~her special assessment and
tax~ng d~stricts for which said Board so acts.
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cexecu~ive Off~ -Clerk of the
Board of SuperVlsors of the
County of Los Angeles