Create or participate in a marketing/outreach program to connect businesses with assistance providers, including utilities, who provide personalized energy, waste or sustainability audits and assistance.
Adopt and use Minnesota's Minimal Impact Design Standards (MIDS).
Require purchase of U.S. EPA WaterSense-certified products.
Add/expand public transit service.
Replace the city's existing traffic signal indications with LEDs.
Arrange for assistance to commercial, retail and industrial businesses with water use reduction, pollution prevention and pretreatment prior to discharge to septics.
Clarify/establish one or more responsible management entities (RMEs) for the proper design, siting, installation, operation, monitoring and maintenance of septic systems.
Facilitate creation of home/community gardens, chicken & bee keeping, and incorporation of food growing areas/access in multifamily and residential developments.
Decrease air emissions from vehicle idling, gasoline filling stations, business trucking, and pollutants/noise from stationary
