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PROPOSED PROJECT The applicant, California Waste Removal System, operates a solid waste transfer station and resource recovery operation at 1333 East Turner Road, Lodi , CA. This facility serves the City of Lodi and the northern San Joaquin County area and is open to both commercial and public vehicles. The transfer station serves as the hub of California Waste's collection operation. Company trucks pick up refuse from their regular routes in Lodi and the surrounding area. The trucks bring the refuse to the transfer station where the refuse is unloaded and the resource recovery operation begins. The refuse is sorted by content and materials that include cardboard, newspaper, plastic, cans, metal , wood, rock and rubble are hand separated for recycling. The remaining waste is loaded onto 120 cubic yard transfer trailers and hauled to an approved solid waste disposal site. The recovered materials are collected and shipped to market on a regular basis. The facility also accepts agricultural and landscaping waste that is sorted and either sold for energy generation or composted on site. The compost is then sold as a soil additive. In addition to the refuse collected by the company, the facility also accepts refuse from the public that is brought by private vehicles. This refuse goes through the same process. California Waste also has a public recycling program. One is a buy back program where the public brings in specific recyclable materials and is paid in cash. The other is a newly instituted program that collects recyclable items at the participant's home. The collection company provides color coded containers that are placed at the curb and picked up weekly. Proceeds from the sale of this material are donated to the local schools. CURRENT RECOVERY OPERATION Currently, approximately 400 tons per day of incoming refuse is dumped and sorted in the tipping floor building. This building is 12,000 square feet in size. This allows California Waste to sort and recover approximately 20% of the volume as recyclable material . The company would like to increase the percentage of material that is recovered. In order to accomplish this, the size of the tipping floor building will need to be increased. This will allow more of the refuse to be sorted and the ability to segregate various types of refuse for better efficiency. It will also allow some of the recovery operations that now are done outside to be done indoors. The proposed expansion would add an additional 60,000 square feet to the existing 12,000 square foot building. This would increase the resource recovery capability from the current 400 tons per day of incoming refuse to 2,000 tons per day. GENERAL PLAN DESIGNATION AND ZONING The property has a General Plan designation of Heavy Industrial and a zoning designation of M-2, Heavy Industrial . No change in either designation is required. CAWASTE/TXTD.01C