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To identify and remedy major visual pollution problems. <br />- Establish tighter standards for outdoor advertising. <br />- Prohibit billboard advertising. <br />Establish environmental and aesthetic standards for <br />building and architecture. <br />Establish highway beautification standards. <br />Establish highway screening /barrier standards to <br />minimize light intrusion into residential neighborhoods. <br />- Tighten appearance standards for commercial and <br />residential property. <br />Promote and advertise the philosophy of "beauty of the <br />ehv i ro nment" { appealing to civic pride. <br />Levy large fines for -. littering <br />Tighten zoning ordinances to ensure integrity of <br />residential neighborhoods and functionality of major <br />thoroughfares . <br />Develop a plan for burying, p over lines. <br />To develop, incorporate, and promote state of the art <br />methods for collecting and managing solid 'and hazardous <br />wastes from residences and businesses.. <br />Strong management, promotion, education, and incentive <br />programs to influence source reduction, reuse, <br />recycling, and material substitutions. <br />Require container deposit fees and encourage returnables <br />to discourage litter. <br />- Establish recycled content standards for products <br />procured by the City (e.g. copy paper, building <br />materials),, <br />- Evaluate currently known sites that use or store <br />hazardous materials, and determine compliance with <br />Federal and State lags regulating. same . <br />Sponsor entrepreneurial. programs -to develop markets for <br />recycled materials using available State and Federal <br />"market development" funds. <br />Increase the number of outdoor trash/recycling <br />containers in public areas, especially adjacent to <br />sources that produce litter. <br />3 <br />