Climate mitigation

Maximize tree planting along your main downtown street or throughout the city.

Implement workplace multi-modal transportation best management practices - including telework/flexwork - in city government, businesses or at a local health care provider.

Create/modify a green residential remodeling assistance/financing program to assist homeowners in adding space or features such as EV charging, renewables to their existing homes.

Require energy efficient, Dark-Sky compliant new or replacement outdoor lighting fixtures on city-owned/private buildings and facilities.

Create incentives for vertical mixed-use development in appropriate locations (downtown, commercial districts near colleges or universities, historic commercial districts, commercial districts with minority-owned businesses).

For cities with regular transit service, require or provide incentives for the siting of higher density housing at transit/density nodes.

For cities with regular transit service, require or provide incentives for the siting of retail services at transit/density nodes.