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i -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- IMPACT: Trafrc MITIGATION: The City should anticipate the need for improvements to intersections in the area (signalization, widening). The City could estimate the cost of these improvements and apply a portion of the costs to an "area of benefit" under the Government Code or CEQA. Thereafter, businesses that expand within the benefitted area could be required to pay their pro-rata share of these improvements. PROPOSED MONITORING PROGRAM: - The traffic counts of vehicles arriving and departing from the transfer station will be tabulated and submitted to the City on a quarterly basis to determine if the increased traffic on the public streets has a significant impact on traffic congestion. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPACT: Odors MITIGATIONS: The project may have the potential to create objectionable odors due to the large volume of waste coming to the site. Waste cannot be held on site for more than 72 hours and, under normal operation, it is sorted, removed from the transfer station within 24 hours, and hauled to a sanitary landfill for disposal. As a result of rapid turn-around of wastes at the transfer station, odors will not pose a significant impact to the local environment. PROPOSED MONITORING PROGRAM: Monitoring objectionable odors will be performed by the City and Local Enforcement Agency during scheduled inspections of the transfer station. If odors are determined to be significantly impacting the local environment, the applicant will be notified by the regulating agency. The applicant will determine the source of the odors and will alter the operation of the transfer station to prevent this impact. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPACT: Dust ITIGATIONS: During construction, the transfer station may have the potential to emit dust particles to the atmosphere as soil is exposed and disturbed by construction vehicles and equipment. If this occurs, most of the particles would settle on or immediately adjacent to the project site, but could cause a nuisance to neighboring land owners. To mitigate this, water trucks will.be available during the construction period to keep dust to a minimum. Once construction has been completed, the potential for dust impacts will be significantly decreased by paving and asphalt covering of the expansion area. PROPOSED MONITORING PROGRAM: Use water trucks during the expansion construction to prevent excessive airborne dust. The monitoring of dust abatement procedures will be included in the construction inspection of the project and will be performed by the City.