Efficiency

Achieve higher intensity commercial/industrial land uses through at least one of the following strategies:

Improve the operations & maintenance of city-owned/school buildings and leased buildings by using a customized online energy efficiency tool, asset management tool, green building framework or green lease.

Improve smart-salting by reducing chloride use in winter maintenance and dust suppressants to prevent permanent surfacewater and groundwater pollution.

Set minimum sustainability standards to reduce the impact of your concrete use, asphalt, roadbed aggregate, or other construction materials.

Increase walking, biking and transit use by one or more of the following means:

Achieve higher density housing through at least two of the following strategies:

Build community capacity to protect existing trees by one or more of:

Improve city operations and procurement to prevent and reuse, recycle and compost waste from all public facilities (including libraries, parks, schools, municipal health care facilities), and minimize use of toxics and generation of hazardous waste.

Arrange for a residential and/or business/institutional source-separated organics collection/management program.

Improve profitability, legal compliance and conserve resources through adoption of ordinance language, licensing and resource management contracts.