Encourage private sector action and incentivize investment in preventive approaches that reduce risk and minimize impacts of extreme weather and the changing climate for human health and the built environment.
Best Practice of this action
Rating Guideline
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Develop public education materials/a campaign that encourages private building owners to take basic actions that will prevent damage from extreme weather (such as elevating equipment, installing appropriate devices/retrofits, flood-proofing basements, and protecting well-heads); work with utilities and community funding partners to offer no/low-cost purchase and installation options to low-income residents and small businesses to provide equitable community resilience. |
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Provide educational materials to encourage private owners, market-rate developers, and affordable housing developers to install islanding capability with storage so their new or existing grid-connected renewable energy systems can provide backup power during grid outages; work with utilities and federal/state/community funding partners to offer incentives and funding options to provide equitable community resilience. |
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Develop an incentive program (reduced development fees, financing, regulatory flexibility) based upon resiliency standards for private building owners to increase resilience; report successful private installations (cool/green roofs, cool pavements, planting resilient tree species, water capture/reuse, a natural wastewater treatment system). Report PACE promotion for commercial energy efficiency/renewable energy under BPA 26.3. |
Resources
- Cities can encourage/incentivize investment that uses a standard: (1) Fortified Commercial, a national standard for resilient construction from The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety; (2) RELi Resilience Standard, combining design criteria with an integrative design process for neighborhoods, buildings, homes and infrastructure, developed in MN and being synchronized with LEED.
- Developing Urban Resilience is a repository for all of the Urban Land Institute’s resilience research that highlights innovative real estate projects across the country. [Applicable to 1, 2 and 3 Star implementation.]
- How New Homes Can Stand Up to Disaster provides state-of-the-art techniques to keep homes standing when floods, winds, and fires strike. [Applicable to 1 Star implementation.]
- 10 Do’s and Don’ts of Discussing Climate Change provides the words and tools to open the lines of communication around climate change. [Applicable to 1, 2 and 3 Star implementation.]
- Incentives for Green Infrastructure Implementation on Private Property: Lessons Learned from the Water Resources Foundation provides information and guidance for how municipalities and utilities can create incentives to promote broader, better targeted, and more effective implementation of GI within their stormwater programs and service areas. [Applicable to 3 Star implementation.]
- Use the Fire Adapted Communities Self-Assessment Tool to assess your level of fire adaptation and track capacity to live safely with fire over time.
- The Clean Energy States Alliance website has many informational resources on clean energy storage and scaling up solar for under-resourced communities.
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Action Type
Finite