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Pasadena City Council Set to Pass Styrofoam Ban, Consider Amending Arroyo Seco Ordinance Tonight

Published on Monday, July 18, 2016 | 4:21 am
 

Pasadena’s City Council is expected to finally approve and pass Monday an ordinance that will prohibit the use of polystyrene containers in the distribution of prepared food and beverages throughout the city for the first time.

The draft ordinance, which calls for the addition of a Chapter 8.67 to Title 8 of the Pasadena Municipal Code, went through first reading during last week’s City Council session and will go through second reading this Monday, according to the City Council Agenda.

At its meeting on May 9, 2016, the City Council directed the City Attorney’s Office to prepare the draft ordinance to accommodate regulation of polystyrene food service ware – commonly known as styrofoam – as there is no similar prohibition elsewhere in the Municipal Code.

The ordinance supports the City’s Green City Action Plan and the Zero Waste Strategic Plan adopted by the City Council in October 2014.

According to a recommendation from City Attorney Michael Michele Beal Bagneris, the ordinance shall start going into effect 30 days from the date of publication. The text of the ordinance will also provide a 12-month allowance from the effective date of the ordinance for food providers to come into compliance with its terms.

According to the draft ordinance, no food provider shall distribute or sell any polystyrene food service ware in conjunction with the sale of prepared food or beverages at any location within the City of Pasadena.  The ordinance will also prohibit anyone from distributing or selling prepared food or beverages in any polystyrene food service ware at City facilities that have been rented, leased or are otherwise being used with permission of the City.

It also bars any person from using or distributing polystyrene food service ware at City-sponsored events, activities and City meetings open to the public. This prohibition shall apply to the function organizers, agents of the organizers, city contractors, and food providers. The City, its departments, its city contractors, agents, and employees acting in their official capacity, shall also not purchase, acquire or distribute for public use any polystyrene coolers or polystyrene food service ware including cup-lids, straws, or utensils.

Upon effectivity of the ordinance, all food providers required to have a business license by Pasadena Municipal Code Chapter 5 shall certify compliance with this new chapter on the annual business license renewal application.

In another important piece of legislation, the City Council will also decide Monday on a recommendation to amend the Arroyo Seco Ordinance and delete Section 3.32.275 which permits a temporary increase in the number of displacement events at the Rose Bowl Stadium once the first Arroyo Seco Music and Art Festival is held there in 2017.

As part of the Operating Agreement between the City and the Rose Bowl Operating Company, all matters that could affect the Rose Bowl Area must be reviewed by the RBOC, and a recommendation made, before the City Council takes any action.

The RBOC Board discussed this item on May 10 and recognized that it is extremely likely that the festival will continue for at least three years, through 2019. The board also recognized it is also highly likely that the NFL stadium in Inglewood that is scheduled to be built by 2019 will be complete and that the opportunity for the Rose Bowl to host the NFL will be gone.

Accordingly, the RBOC Board recommends to the City Council that, after the first Festival, Section 3.3.2.275 of the Municipal Code should be deleted.

Discussion of these recommendation and other items on the agenda is part of the City Council’s open meeting that opens at 6:30 p.m.

The City Council meets every Monday at the Council Chambers, Pasadena City Hall, at 100 N. Garfield Avenue.

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