Use 21st century ecodistrict tools to structure, guide and link multiple green and sustainable projects together in a mixed-use neighborhood/development, or innovation district, aiming to deliver superior social, environmental and economic outcomes.
Best Practice of this action
Rating Guideline
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Report how the 21st Century Development Tool or the EcoDistricts Protocol was used for a development project or neighborhood (re)development. Report less-ambitious and less-holistic mixed-use projects under best practice 8, Green Zones and resilience hubs under action 29.3, and shared aspects of retail projects at transit/density nodes under action 14.2 |
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Register as an EcoDistrict; post the 21st Century performance levels planned or achieved in a development. |
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Be certified as an EcoDistrict. |
Resources
- Eco districts strive toward the aggressive energy, water and vehicle emissions targets called for by Architecture 2030. See the EcoDistricts Protocol, a process-based framework and certification standard that empowers equitable, resilient, sustainable neighborhoods and districts for all, placing race/equity, social inclusion issues on an equal footing with physical development project management.
- See Sharing the Benefits of a Greening City: A Toolkit in Pursuit of Economic, Environmental, and Racial Justice (University of MN CREATE Initiative: 2019) for policy and project tools to measure and attenuate green gentrification/resident-business displacement pressures.
- The 21st Century Development Tool (AIA Minnesota, University of MN: 2019) defines 5 levels of performance (the highest being regenerative) across 7 performance areas (based on the national Living Community Challenge), to be used as a framework/pathway to support the efforts of all stakeholders in a proposed physical development project to create the most sustainable projects.
- The University of MN's Minnesota Design Center helped develop the 2016 Rochester Destination Medical Center District Design Guidelines and District Sustainability Standards for the Ford Site.
- See implementation tools for action 28.3 and model ordinances for ecodistricts/green zones.
Order Number
4
Action Type
Finite