EDITORIAL JUST SAY NO COUNTY COMMISSION STANDS TOUGH ON DUMP EXPANSION.THE Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Planning Commission Noun 1. planning commission - a commission delegated to propose plans for future activities and developments commission, committee - a special group delegated to consider some matter; "a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" - Milton Berle has done something that the city officials of Los Angeles can't or won't do: say no to the operators of Sunshine Canyon Landfill. Earlier this week, the commission denied a request by Browning-Ferris Industries Browning-Ferris Industries, or "BFI", is a licensed trademark of Allied Waste Industries, a North America waste collection company. Many local units of Allied Waste are still known as BFI in the markets they serve. , which runs the Granada Hills dump, to merge its separate Sunshine Canyon sites - one inside city limits, one outside - into a megadump with a land bridge. Needless to say, the residents of Granada Hills, who have long been fighting expansion of the urban landfill, were not thrilled with the megadump proposal. The county commission's denial was some welcome relief: Finally, it appeared that a public agency actually has the residents' best interest in mind. Residents in that northeastern corner of Los Angeles had grown accustomed to city politicians' reneging on promises to curb or even shut down the dump. Both the current and the past mayor have promised to stop the city's trash from going to that landfill - a big deal because most of the trash in the dump comes from the city. But so far, all that residents have received are empty promises and money appropriated for studies - most recently, $1.1 million to study alternatives to trashing their community. Dumps DUMPS a lethal inherited disorder of Holstein cattle that causes infertility. The name is an acronym of Deficiency of Uridine MonoPhosphate S don't belong near houses, schools or any other place where people congregate con·gre·gate tr. & intr.v. con·gre·gat·ed, con·gre·gat·ing, con·gre·gates To bring or come together in a group, crowd, or assembly. See Synonyms at gather. adj. 1. Gathered; assembled. 2. and spend a lot of time. In crafting policy, it can't get much simpler than that. Neighbors are plagued not just by odors Odors anosmia Medicine. the absence of the sense of smell; olfactory anesthesia. Also called anosphrasia. — anosmic, adj. halitosis bad breath; an unpleasant odor emanating from the mouth. and potential health and safety hazards from the dump, but also by the fumes fumes odorous gases and other volatile materials; inhalation of irritating fumes causes coughing and, if sufficiently severe, irreversible pulmonary edema. from the diesel trucks chugging through their community daily. City leaders have been consoling the upset residents of Granada Hills for years, but have never seriously considered alternatives or even made an effort to divert trash by requiring recycling at commercial and multifamily residential properties. The best they could do was sign a six-month extension of BFI's contract last summer. Perhaps city leaders could take a cue from the sensible Los Angeles County Planning Commission and just say no to more urban dumping. |
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