§ 89-91. Solid waste.

⇔ Use Category (section 89-21, Use Table): Infrastructure - Waste-related - Solid waste

(a)

Applicability.

(1)

This section applies to the City of Lafayette and the unincorporated portions of Lafayette Parish.

(2)

This section applies additional regulations to solid waste facilities where they are allowed or not regulated through zoning. Nothing in this section allows a solid waste facility in any area or district where it is not allowed.

(3)

This applies to the following activities, as defined below:

Disposal facilities	The physical components of the disposal system, such as transfer conveyances, processing plants and landfill. In addition, waste tire processing plants, waste tire collection centers, and solid waste management facilities, as those terms are defined in R.S. § 30:2412.
Dumping Pit	A land site where solid waste is disposed of in a manner that does not protect the environment.
Incinerator	A furnace designed for the volume reduction of solid waste by burning in a firebox with proper controls and temperature range with stack emissions which do not exceed air pollution control limits established by local, state or federal laws and regulations.
Landfill, Construction/Demolition Debris	Nonhazardous waste generally considered not water-soluble including, but not limited to, metal, concrete, brick, asphalt, roofing materials (shingles, sheet rock, plaster), or lumber from a construction or demolition project, but excluding asbestos contaminated waste, white goods, furniture, trash or treated lumber. As defined in the current Environmental Regulatory Code, LAC 33:VII.115, LAC 33:VII.719, LAC 33:VII.721 and subsequent Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality guidelines.
Landfills, Sanitary	A facility for the disposal of solid waste involving the placement of solid waste on or into the land surface, and usually involving compaction and covering of the disposed solid waste, and which is not a land-spreading or surface impoundment facility.
Scrap and salvage yard	A facility for discarded or rejected material or parts of material that result from manufacturing operations and are suitable for reprocessing or recycling.
Waste pickup station	A site at which solid waste is temporarily placed and from which it is transported to a different location for processing and/or disposal.
Waste transfer station	A Solid Waste processing facility where Solid Waste is transferred from Collection Vehicles and placed in other vehicles for transportation.
Wrecker yard	A site at which damaged vehicles are stored and whose purpose is to sell vehicle parts, or whose primary business is to store damaged vehicles.

 

(b)

Separation distances.

(1)

Owners and developers of the activities listed below are prohibited from constructing and operating their developments within the following distances from a school, approved residential development and/or residence.

(2)

The distance is measured from property line to property line.

Table 89-91-2 Solid Waste Separation Distances

Adjoining Development (see section 89-36(g))	Separation Distance
SF, MF	1,320
NB, GB, CV, AG	600
ID	200

 

(c)

Fences. The developer must provide a sightproof eight-foot-tall fence at the inside perimeter of the required buffer.

(d)

Waste tire disposal. Any disposal facility which contains more than 150 waste tires shall, in addition to the buffer and separation distance required by this section, establish an area within the separation distance of 100 feet, with no trees and including access roads. This area shall include with no flammable substance and shall completely surround the disposal facility.

(Ord. No. O-252-2015, § 3(Exh. B), 11-17-15)