Actions that directly or indirectly improve air quality in your community
Coordinate traffic signals and/or optimize signal timing to minimize car idling at intersections yet maintain safe and publicly acceptable vehicle speeds.
Maximize tree planting along your main downtown street or throughout the city.
Certify as a Tree City USA.
Implement workplace multi-modal transportation best management practices - including telework/flexwork - in city government, businesses or at a local health care provider.
Protect working landscapes - agriculture and forestry - by adopting an ordinance or incentivizing one or more of the following:
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.
Implement the Minnesota Main Street model for commercial revitalization.
Require energy efficient, Dark-Sky compliant new or replacement outdoor lighting fixtures on city-owned/private buildings and facilities.
Use design to create social trust and interaction among neighbors and allow developments that meet the prerequisites for LEED for Neighborhood Development certification.
Eliminate barriers and actively encourage higher density housing by including in the city zoning ordinance and zoning map:
