CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM
ACTION REQUESTED:
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Adopt the resolution authorizing the Chicago Avenue Alley Refuse Enclosure License Agreement between the City of Naperville and Red Arrow Tap Room
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DEPARTMENT: Department of Public Works
SUBMITTED BY: Richard Dublinski, Director
BOARD/COMMISSION REVIEW:
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BACKGROUND:
For years, dumpsters used by businesses throughout the downtown area have consumed valuable public and private parking spaces. These dumpsters have produced negative economic and aesthetic consequences, and as such the City has worked with businesses to consolidate refuse collection areas when possible.
The first successful major consolidation effort success was the Van Buren consolidated refuse program, which was established in 2010 through a partnership with the City, the Downtown Naperville Alliance, surrounding businesses, and the waste hauler. The City agreed to construct a consolidated refuse enclosure in the Van Buren parking lot for voluntary use by neighboring businesses. This program removed many dumpsters from the Van Buren lot and provided a cost effective and aesthetically pleasing refuse disposal enclosure containing refuse compactors. The participating businesses continue to pay a surcharge based on their use of the compactors as reimbursement to the City for the cost of the enclosure.
DISCUSSION:
Red Arrow Tap Room and other nearby businesses use private dumpsters on private property in the alley between the back of the businesses and the Chicago Avenue Parking Deck. Red Arrow approached the City with concerns about the number of dumpsters currently located in or near the alley. Red Arrow intended to update their back patio area and was concerned about both the number of dumpsters in the alley and the odor and mess caused by those dumpsters. In an effort to reduce multiple refuse and recycling containers used by these businesses and to reduce the number of refuse and recycling pick-ups from the Alley, the City worked with the Downtown Naperville Alliance and Red Arrow Tap Room to identify a location where a shared, consolidated refuse collection area could be located.
The City currently has a refuse enclosure located in the corner of the surface lot leading to the second level of the Chicago Avenue Parking Deck. Working with Groot Industries, it was determined that the enclosure area could house sufficient dumpsters to service the City and several surrounding businesses. The dumpsters are already sufficiently screened, so no funding is needed to upgrade the area.
The attached Refuse Enclosure Encroachment License Agreement would permit Red Arrow Tap Room to utilize the shared refuse enclosure for their refuse and recycling disposal. Under the Agreement, one waste hauler will be used and the business will pay that hauler directly for their service.
The agreement will be in place for three years from date of approval and will automatically renew for additional one-year periods unless terminated by either the City or Red Arrow Tap Room.
Once the Agreement is approved, the City will work with neighboring businesses to determine if their participation in the Chicago Avenue Alley consolidated refuse program would be beneficial. Any other businesses that choose to participate in this program would be required to sign the attached Agreement before use of the dumpsters would be allowed.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The City will continue to maintain the enclosure area.