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Tree planting is an obvious, inexpensive way to mitigate excessive carbon and heat. Yet San Diego’s accessory dwelling unit (ADU) and junior accessory dwelling unit (JADU) legislation directly contradicts its Climate Action Plan, significantly reducing the tree canopy; building to the property line, paving yards for parking, easily removes any vestige of green.
Here’s a prime opportunity to mandate trees rather than destroy the urban canopy. If climate action programs include ordinances requiring newly built homes to use electricity for cooking and heating as mentioned, how much cheaper and easier it would be to mandate all new housing include at least one tree on the property, better one tree per unit? This critical addition to the ADU ordinance would do much to combat climate change and nothing to reduce the amount of added housing provided.
The Escondido anaerobic digester will convert organic waste to fertilizer for farms and natural gas for vehicles.
Del Mar doesn t have food waste pickup. But by next year, it will have to. And restaurants, hard hit by the pandemic, are sweating the new costs, from dumpsters to rodent control.
State regulations aimed at keeping organic waste out of landfills, along with the potent methane gas it emits, will require residents and businesses to recycle food scraps, landscape leftovers, non-hazardous wood waste and compostable paper.
The city will have to provide organics collections to all residents and businesses.
The small city now sends 3,200 tons of organic waste to the landfill each year, with yard waste the most prevalent type. But the food portion amounts to 3/4 of a ton of waste per person, not counting the fairgrounds.