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Home My WebLink AboutFORT COLLINS INTEGRATED RECYCLE CENTER - PDP - PDP130020 - REPORTS - MEMO / P & Z BOARDWork Session Follow-up: Timberline and Prospect ODP and Integrated Recycling Facility PDP August 6, 2013 Page 4 facility. The same is true for the bottles/cans/cardboard commodities, which are taken to Larimer County's Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) co -located with the landfill on South Taft Hill Road. Wood debris and yard waste will be taken to a commercial composting facility; these sites typically do not have scales and we will do a yards -to -tons conversion using EPA factors to establish those weights. l . o Will the facility be staffed by a City employee or a consultant? Why? F s. • The facility will be not be staffed by City employees, but instead will be contracted out to a firm whose core competencies lie in marketing the recyclable materials that are collected at the IRF. This requires an active market participant and ability to negotiate sales agreements on an ongoing basis, which _- is not something the City has skills, time, nor interest in doing. The job will be awarded on a competitive bid system after we have issued.a Request.for Proposals sometime this fall. The consultants will also be 'able•to provide other . - resources that the City is not currently set up with, such as'supplying, operating,. and maintaining the kind of trucks usePor "pulling" roll -off boxes full of recyclables. o . Can you describe what trees will be used on the east side of the plan -for -screening?_ The site's existing large evergreen and deciduous trees will be transplanted from their current locations to areas between the project's main drive and Timberline Road, and on the east side of the PRPA substation. The condition and relocation of these trees was assessed with aid from City Forestry and a large tree relocation contractor. The size and tough nature of these existing trees (ponderosa pine, pinion pine, Kentucky coffees tree and bur oaks) will serve well for site screening and overall landscape water efficiency. -4- 'ork Session Follow --up: Timberline and Prospect ODP and Integrated Recycling Facility PDP igust 6, 2013 ige 3 -just as easy to go to thelarimerCounty recycling center (co -located with the landfill) to recycle -their bottles/cans/cardboard, etc. "Part of what we -..hope -to accomplish is to redirect people from going to the landfill to throwaway mixed.loads of wood, aggregate, scrap metal, and yardwaste, and to bring them to the IRF instead, where those materials will be recycled. Saving people the trip to the landfill will save on VMT for people who live in the northern areas"of Fort Collins. Finally, we are also working with the "- -Air Quality lead planner; Melissa Hovey, on the idea of posting some r- ---education/outreach information at the new IRF once it's built, to help urge - -� -_ - people to consolidate•their driving trips and reduce VMT. - _ o - •How.will this.recycling facility help reduce the percentage of glass that is not actually _ - --recycled?_ . ■. A -portion of.the.west end of the IRF has been designated for large amounts of - - - _ - - -,glass to -be staged for -recycling at the bottle -making plantin=Wheatridge, CO. - Environmental Services has been in communication with local companies that have expressed a need for glass recycling, and this will give them an option. Being.able.to.collect glass separately, the way we do at Rivendell Recycling } - __- • _ Center - and will also do at the IRF - is important for keeping it clean -enough to s _ meet manufacturing standards set by the Rocky Mountain Bottle Company. _ s (Glass collected in the single -stream curbside recycling program ends up getting - mixed up with a lot of 'contaminants" and therefore is used for beneficial _ . secondary uses, for'instance as -a drainage material in trenches, instead of being made into new bottles.). At-the-IRF, we will be storing clean, separated glass in a - - - bunker for greater efficiency in transporting loads going to Wheatridge. We are also working with local breweries to bring their broken glass (from their assembly lines) to the IRF, to then be taken to the plant to be made into new bottles. In fact, New Belgium Brewing has offered to help pay some of the costs of building the glass storage bunker at the IRF. o Will drywall be able to be brought into the facility? If so, how will asbestos be - handled? ■ . No, there is no intent to handle drywall at this point in time, since options for recycling drywall in Northern Colorado are very limited. We share a similar concern for asbestos along with lead base paint. If, in the future, we are able to find a market for recycling drywall, we would first establish a protocol to avoid accepting material that was contaminated. o Will the facility have to address state and federal regulations, especially regarding scales? ■ The State requires recycling facilities, like Fort Collins, to report how many tons/year of material are collected at drop-off sites. Data on the numbers of tons for each material will be established off -site since the IRF is not being designed to include an in -ground scale. For instance, when scrap metal is hauled to a metal dealer, or when aggregate is taken to Hoffman Mill Road Crushing Plant, those loads are weighed and documented by the receiving -3- Work Session Follow-up: Timberline and Prospect ODP and Integrated Recycling August 6, 2013 Page 2 ` Facility PDP Integrated Recycling Center should share the current power station access and that access could be up to a three-quarter access. - Regarding how traffic will head back north; uritilltthe median improvements take place - _ (estimated in 2015) the access will remain a•full•m(ivement. Once the median is built a :• motorist would have to exit south bound and theml cate a suitable route to allow them to head back to the north..A,couple of possibilities include making a U-turn at. Timberline and Nancy Grey or -making a right.turn onto Bear Mountain and then proceeding to the traffic signal at Timberline'and'Nancy Grey via Joseph Allen. How will the disc golf -course interact with the recycling facility? Does pedestrian access n_eed- to be provided on the. south portion of the.ODP? ..`,�� ' z o (Response from Parks P.lanning;and Environrrienta1 't-vices): The beginning and end of -' - the disc golf course occurs at•EdoratPark;•the Integrated •Recycle F,ecility willahare a; _ :$ s property edge for a fewiholes;at the courseEs.micl section. There shouldn't'be a ; -i • ;: s P situation where disc golfers need mid-course^access. The question'of pedestrian access for our visitors to the IRF, however, is perhaps a second question. Those people who want to walk or bicycle to.the facility with their recyclables are going to be given access �...• . _ via the same driveway as visitors who'are driving their vehicles. There will be a 4' ., striped shoulder o eeach side of,the-drive for pedestrians and bicycles, alihough bicycles' may use the main drive as well. • Integrated Recycling Facility questions (all responses from Environmental Services): o Consistency with City Plan —how much will this recycling facility further the 50% waste diversion goal? How will it address the City Plan policies related to air quality and vehicle travel? ■ There is significant public usage of, and need for, the Rivendell site (typical volumes at Rivendell Recycling Center average 110 tons/month). The IRF will continue to meet this need along with providing additional avenues of recycling for: electronic waste, glass, batteries, scrap metal, wood, aggregate materials, and yard waste. The study done by the City's consultants in 2011-12 (http://www.fcgov.com/recycling/pdf/integrated-recycling-facility-feasibility- analysis.pdf?1329241951) made a conservative estimate that between 8-15,000 new tons/year of material will be collected at the IRF; the report looked at a phasing schedule to gradually accept more materials over time. With changes requested by Council for an IRF, we are on track for being closer to Phase II (15,438 tons/year) than the original idea of starting with Phase 1 (7,719 tons/year), which is calculated to increase Fort Collins' waste diversion between 2.1% - 4.35%. Having a "one stop shop" that accepts a variety of materials will help recyclers reduce the number of visits they need to make to go to separate facilities such as scrap metal shops, commercial composting sites, recycling centers, etc., thereby reducing their VMT. The east -central location of the new IRF on Timberline should provide good convenience for many people in Fort Collins to use. For those who live in the southwest part of town; it may continue to be -2- •�1 City of / Fort Collins DT: -August 6, 2013 Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 970.416.2740 970.224.6134-fax fcgovcom . MEMORANDUM TO: Members of the Planning and Zoning Board TH: Laurie Kadrich, Director of Community Development and Neighborhood Services FM: Lindsay Ex, Seniorinvironrne*ntal Planner RE: Work Session Follow Up: ~ Timberline and Prospect Overall Development. Plan Integrated Recycling Facility Project Development Plan 7. At the August 2, 2013 Work Session,,several questions were asked of staff and the applicant (City of Fort Collins) regarding the Timberline and Prospect Overall Development Plan (hereafter ODP) and the Integrated Recycling Facility Project Development Plan (hereafter IRF). The following is a compilation of N :responses to those questions. s= _ . Is T,he Coterie Natural Area_planned_to be permanently a Natural Area or are there other.plans - forthatland? .o (Response from. Natural Areas Department): There are.no other plans for this land and the Natural Areas.Department would, like to keep the Coterie Natural Area as an open space,along the Spring Creek Trail, City Council has the ultimate authority over the use _ r -T :of City property and they could decide to use this property for another use; however the _ Natural Areas.Depariment would have to be compensated for the value of that land and b t D the funds used.for natural areas purposes. ;•.. , Does,the City own the Rivendell site? What will happen with the area that is leased once it is closed? o (Response. provided by the Environmental Services Department): The City does not own • - the Rivendell site and staff is not sure what the school has in mind for the future use of the site. Before the City came to Rivendell with the proposal to use their parking lot back in 2002, it was vacant. They haven't mentioned to the City that anyone else is ready to take the place of the existing recycling facility once the City moves the recycling _. :.center.: •. . What is the access planned, into the site — is a % movement or something else? How will traffic go back to the north? (Response from Traffic Engineering and Development Review Engineering): The City's roadway improvement project is only in the conceptual stages with no drawings drafted yet. Discussions are still taking place on the design. Transportation staff believes the