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Item No. 3 PC: 7-15-93 UP-93-2 Page 9 Light and Glare: Although the transfer facility is not expected to operate during nighttime hours, it will utilize outdoor lighting for security purposes, as well as for the outdoor recycling and transfer trailer parking areas. To prevent this outdoor lighting from becoming a potentially significant impact on adjacent property and land uses, the following mitigation measure will be required: • All on-site outdoor lighting shall be directed so that the light source is not visible from adjacent properties. Visual Quality: The EIR noted that the existing transfer station has very little landscaping to screen the view of the facility from adjacent properties and Lovelace Road. The design of the new transfer station includes a minimum 20-foot-wide landscaped strip around the perimeter of the 19-acre parcel and extensive landscaping on the remainder of the site. To reduce the potential for the expanded facility becoming aesthetically displeasing, the following mitigation measure will be required: • An adequate landscaped area shall be provided along the project frontage on Lovelace Road. The increase in vehicle and truck traffic to and from the expanded transfer station could contribute to an increase of local litter problems along Lovelace Road, Union Road, and Airport Way. The potential significance of the problem will be reduced by conducting waste handling and transfer operations within the new transfer building and by existing State Vehicle Code requirements for covering all hauled waste during transport. The significance will be further reduced by the following mitigation measure: • Litter control crews shall police Lovelace Road on a daily basis and Union Road and Airport Way on a periodic basis to remove accumulated litter. Hazardous Materials: As a part of its waste handling procedures, the transfer station receives batteries, latex paint, waste oil, and antifreeze. These materials, known as Household Hazardous Waste (HHW), are sorted from the waste stream and placed on double containment pallets for temporary storage until sufficient amounts are collected to allow appropriate disposal at a licensed facility or transportation to an approved recycling facility. Because these procedures will be instituted at the expanded transfer station, the potential impact associated with the handling of HHW is not expected to be significant. As noted under 'Land Use,' the one-acre area north of the existing transfer station that is proposed for expansion of the facility is the site of a former landfill. The full extent of the landfill was not determined, since only the portion proposed for the expansion was investigated. It is, however, known to exist for a length of at least 200 feet along top of the one-acre site and extends to a maximum depth of approximately nine feet. As pan of the construction plans for this part of the site, the buried debris will be excavated from the site to within five feet of the new north