1. Help identify and obtain land for RR Park projects, particularly in urban areas.
   

   a. Include in all new and revised landfill and transfer station permits that they set aside land for reuse, recycling and composting activities on their site, and that they consider the possibility of developing a Resource Recovery Park at or nearby* their site.

   b. Ask RMDZ Administrators to identify appropriate locations for RR parks within their zones, and nearby*.
   

   c. Help fund the purchase of land and buildings by the public sector, so that they can become landlords (as was done for landfills, transfer stations, and airports), with tenant reuse, recycling and composting businesses. Public may need to play this role due to scarcity of developers interested in developing industrial parks.
   

   d. Seek land for both processors and manufacturers. Help communities understand the value of retaining an industrial base, and the value of manufacturing vis a vis other land issues.

2. Fund educational, evaluation and outreach activities

   a. Workshops on RR Parks development for RMDZs, local governments, operators, developers, land use and environmental permitting agencies, and potential tenants.
   

   b. Studies to be done by RMDZs to evaluate the potential for RR Parks in their Zones or nearby* and to identify sites in their Zones or nearby*.

   c. Fund local business outreach efforts to attract potential tenants to proposed RR Parks.
   

   d. Analyze what type of businesses have been most successful in a RR Park.
   

   e. Analyze what type of permits are generally required for a RR Park.
   

   f. Develop a model Master Environmental Impact Report that could be the basis for local Master EIRs.
   

   g. Help incubate new companies in rural RR Parks, then graduate them to urban RR Parks or RMDZs.

3. Help finance the development of RR Parks

   a. Provide seed money to RMDZs to assist in putting together financing packages for RR Park projects in their zones or nearby*, including identifying other state funds that could be applied (either through RMDZs or other local economic development agencies)
   

   b. CIWMB top management meet with top management of other State agencies to highlight the RR Park concept, and to encourage them to make funding such efforts a priority for their agency to leverage other state economic development programs.
   

   c. Provide rent subsidies for RR Park tenants in early years until new material flows and markets are established to make self-supporting.

4. Help in permitting RR Parks
   

   a. In review of solid waste facility permits, CIWMB staff should evaluate the potential for a RR Park to be located on-site or nearby* to proposed facility. Permit conditions should require the co-location of RR Parks at solid waste facilities, if the Local Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) and/or local solid waste planners request them. CIWMB staff should also make sure that any proposed solid waste facility does not impede or impair the development of a RR Park to serve the same waste shed (especially for facilities that have a high amount of self-haul).
   

   b. CIWMB should issue a Directive to LEAs that details criteria for what is to be considered a RR Park, and to encourage joint uses of solid waste facility sites for such purposes. At a minimum, LEAs should not DISCOURAGE the joint siting of reuse, recycling and composting facilities at solid waste facility sites. Criteria may include, but not be limited to:

   • the co-location of reuse, recycling and composting facilities, including processing, manufacturing and retail.
   • public and private partnerships, building on the investments that have already been made by each
   • shared services and common site management
   • leased spaces for tenant businesses or activities

    

   c. RMDZ staff should assist RR Parks in identifying the necessary permits for a RR Park in their area, and in speaking on behalf of such projects with permitting agencies to highlight the public purposes that would be met by such approval.

5. Increase statewide disposal fees to fund these type of additional market development programs. Add the levying of statewide disposal fees to all transfer stations, so that all solid waste generated in California is required to contribute their fair share towards such market development activities.

* Note: RMDZs should be encouraged to help develop RR Park projects in their areas, or close by, even if outside the zone boundaries, if such a RR Park could positively impact the demand for recycled materials from their RMDZ.

Notes Prepared by Gary Liss
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Known RR Park Projects Around California in Progress:
(where reuse, recycling and composting businesses have co-located, including processing, manufacturing and retail sales)

1. Urban Ore, Berkeley
2. Alameda County Waste Mgt. Authority & Recycling Board and Oakland/Berkeley RMDZ
3. WM Davis Street Recycling Park, San Leandro
4. Oakland Army Base
5. Del Norte County
6. Cabazon RR Park, Indio
7. Monterey Region Waste Management District RR Park, Monterey
8. Ventura County
9. Barstow
10. Placer County
11. Orange County Transfer Station
12. Los Angeles County, Alameda Corridor Redevelopment Project
13. Imperial County