(a) This division is intended to protect and promote the health, safety, and welfare of the County’s citizens, visitors, and workers by reducing the release of pollutants into the environment as a result of coal and petroleum coke storage and handling. This division is also intended to reduce the public health, safety, or welfare impacts (including, without limitation, adverse impacts to property values, aesthetics, and economic interests) caused by the storage and handling of coal and petroleum coke.

(b) This division bans the establishment and/or expansion of storage and handling of coal and/or petroleum coke on County-owned property. (Ord. 2689, Att. 1 § 1, 2/8/2022)