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The Healthy Air And Clean Transportation Ordinance is intended to assist the City in achieving its air pollution and greenhouse gas reduction goals by: promoting the use of vehicles that have zero or super ultra-low emissions, achieve high energy efficiency and use alternative fuels with a low carbon impact; implementing policies to minimize the use of single occupancy vehicles and reduce the total number of passenger vehicles and light-duty trucks in the municipal fleet; maximizing the use of outside sources to fund such programs; encouraging the creation, expansion, and maintenance of alternative fueling infrastructure in the City and at City facilities; encouraging trip reduction, carpooling, and public transit, and to increase bicycle commuting by providing cyclists with the opportunity to securely park their bicycles in or close to their workplaces.
Ordinance to require the owners of existing commercial buildings to either provide secure bicycle parking in their buildings or allow their tenants to bring their bicycles into the building.
A Mayo Clinic study issued in June 2013 found that nearly 70 percent of Americans take one prescription drug, up from 48 percent in 2007-2008. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, health care providers in the United States wrote 259 million prescriptions for painkillers in 2012, enough for every American adult to have a bottle of pills. Municipal wastewater treatment plants are not designed to treat complex drug compounds that end up in the sewer system after being flushed down toilets and sinks. As a result, drugs can pass through wastewater treatment systems and contaminate receiving waters.
Beginning 15 days after the Department of the Environment adopts the regulations required under Section 1104(d), cell phone retailers must display in a prominent location visible to the public, within the retail store, an informational poster developed by the Department of the Environment as referenced in Section 1104.
Regulation No. SFE 05-02-PPO establishes public participation guidelines for implementation of the Precautionary Purchasing Ordinance (Ord. No. 115-05).
Regulation No. SFE-05-01-PPO adopts an Approved Alternatives List for products, batteries, and vehicle fuel.