[GreenYes] Re: Requirements for onsite garbage/recycling storage space at busine sses

[Alan Muller <amuller@no.address>]

At 03:03 PM 12/27/2005 -0800, McLaughlin, Anne wrote:

> Dear GreenYes-ers,
>
> Happy holidays from the rainy City of Roses.  We're looking for some advice
> from the rest of you (and from anyone else you may refer us to).
>
> The City of Portland is looking at ways to prohibit, or at least reduce the
> number of, Dumpsters and other garbage & recycling (G/R) containers
> permanently sitting on public sidewalks (i.e., public right-of-way).  Our
> current regulations aren't working very well.
>
> We are asking you for information and/or contacts for other cities to see
> what good solutions you might have found.  We are thinking that it's
> probably done through your planning and zoning regulations, by requiring
> property owners to provide G/R storage space on their own properties, and
> including specs for that storage space.  But if you have any other workable
> system, we'd like to know that.  We're interested in what the regulations
> are, and how and by what agency they are enforced.

Why *would* containers be allowed to stand permanently on public 
sidewalks?  I thought all jurisdictions had regulations on use of such 
public right-of-way....  (I'm sure that the basic pattern around here is 
that a permit is needed to put a dumpster at the curb--say--for a project 
such as a roof tearoff.  The time allowed is limited.  And this would 
normally be in a parking area, not a traffic lane or sidewalk.)  I would 
think that if the political will exists to make and enforce suitable rules, 
the property owners will be forced to find alternatives.  But maybe I don't 
understand.

Regards,

Alan

Alan Muller, Executive Director
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