AMKO Recycling Facility Project

AMKO Recycling Facility Project

The AMKO Recycling Facility Project (project), involves the expansion and operation of the existing AMKO Facility located at 340 West Valley Boulevard (APN 162-136-06). The existing AMKO Facility is a nonconforming use under the City’s Municipal Code and consists of a large recycling facility located at the edge of Downtown Colton. As a part of the project, the applicant is requesting a General Plan Amendment to change the General Plan land use designation from General Commercial to Light Industrial and a zone change of C-D and C-2/D to M-1 to bring the facility into conformance with the City’s General Plan and Municipal Code. The proposed project also includes a request for a minor zoning code amendment that would clarify the definition of “Recycling Processing Facility” in the City’s Municipal Code Sections 18.04.385 and 18.06.060. Implementation of the project would involve relocation of the public buy-back center from the commercial services at the existing facility to the vacant lots at 115, 125,133 and 135 North Pennsylvania Avenue (APNs 162-134-09, 24, 12, and 23) that would be developed with a 7,670 squarefoot (sf) warehouse building with 1,586 sf of retail, 428 sf of office space, 348 sf of restrooms, 670 sf of storage area, and an additional 18 parking spaces. The project also involves improvements to the existing facility that would include incorporating new architectural elements to the building façade to support historic preservation consistent with the Design Manual, new landscaping along Pennsylvania Avenue and Valley Boulevard, and construction of a 10,000-sf storage space to facilitate enclosing up to 80 percent of the recycling operation containing various materials. Additionally, the project includes rehabilitation and adaptive reuse of the existing building located at 157 North Pennsylvania Avenue (APN 162-134-08) as a warehouse and storage facility.

Colton

San Bernardino

Citywide, Southern California

California Air Resources Board (ARB), California Department of Conservation (DOC), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Inland Deserts Region 6 (CDFW), California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), California Department of Transportation, District 8 (DOT), California Department of Water Resources (DWR), California Highway Patrol (CHP), California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Natural Resources Agency, California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Santa Ana Region 8 (RWQCB), California State Lands Commission (SLC), Office of Historic Preservation, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Quality

Industrial (Sq. Ft. 45490, Acres 2.73, Employees 11)

General Plan Amendment, Site Plan, Rezone, Use Permit, Zoning Amendment

Aesthetics, Agriculture and Forestry Resources, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Cultural Resources, Cumulative Effects, Drainage/Absorption, Energy, Flood Plain/Flooding, Geology/Soils, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Growth Inducement, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Hydrology/Water Quality, Land Use/Planning, Mandatory Findings of Significance, Mineral Resources, Noise, Population/Housing, Public Services, Recreation, Schools/Universities, Septic System, Sewer Capacity, Solid Waste, Transportation, Tribal Cultural Resources, Utilities/Service Systems, Vegetation, Wetland/Riparian, Wildfire