
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, March 22, 1991                   TAG: 9103220985
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A7   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: CHARLOTTESVILLE                                LENGTH: Short

CHARLOTTESVILLE SACKS GARBAGE BAG PROPOSAL

The City Council sacked a proposed plan to require residents to use official 75-cent garbage bags or face smelly consequences.

The idea had drawn fire from city residents. Under the plan, sanitation workers would only collect the specially marked city bags.

Also Thursday, the council also cut back the fees proposed to empty the dumpsters of businesses and apartment buildings. The cuts will slash the city's receipts from trash fees from $650,000 in the original proposal to $150,000.

An average business would pay an estimated $225 a year in dumpster fees, council member Kay Slaughter said. A pilot recycling program for apartment buildings would accompany the new fees.

But council members served notice they plan to phase in both residential and commercial trash fees over the next year to get people to produce less trash and recycle more.

- Associated Press

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