CAMARILLO : Areas Backed for Recycling Zone
The Camarillo Planning Commission has recommended that the City Council include certain industrial areas in a special zone to lure businesses that make new products out of recycled materials.
The area would be part of a larger Recycling Market Development Zone, encompassing portions of Camarillo, Oxnard, Simi Valley and Ventura County land.
Those cities and the county are preparing a joint application to the California Integrated Waste Management Board for the designation, which would make industries within the zone eligible for low-interest loans and tax breaks from the state.
Camarillo’s planning commissioners voted last week to include in the zone industrial areas north of Pleasant Valley Road and east of the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks, on Flynn Road east of Lewis Road and north of Mission Oaks Boulevard, and south of Adohr Lane and east of Pancho Road.
If the state approves the application, any property within the zone will keep the designation for 10 years, according to the state Public Resources Code.
Officials hope that the designation will help fill industrial buildings and create new jobs.
Materials targeted for recycling in the proposed zone include newspapers, film plastics, glass, yard waste, tires and rubber, and wood.
The council is scheduled to vote on the designation Wednesday.
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