Sustainable Coordination: Community staff and leaders have a clear understanding of roles and have expertise in and budgets for coordinating sustainability best practices.
Conduct a tree inventory or canopy study for public and private trees.
Adopt a complete streets policy, or a living streets policy, which addresses landscaping and stormwater.
Implement IT efforts and city employee engagement to reduce plug loads, building energy use and workflow efficiency.
Purchase energy used by city government - via the municipal utility, green tags, community solar garden, 3rd party - with a higher renewable percentage than required by Minnesota law.
Install a public sector/municipally-owned renewable energy technology, such as solar electric (PV), wind, biomass, solar hot water/air, or micro-hydro.
Adopt infrastructure design standards that protect the economic and ecologic functions of the highway corridor through clustering of development, native plantings and incorporating access management standards.
Implement traffic calming policy/measures, including lane conversions (road diets), roundabouts, low-speed streets, shared space and depaving, in at least one street redevelopment project.
Phase in bike, e-bike, foot or horseback modes for police, inspectors and other city staff.
Complete the GreenStep Municipal Stormwater Management Assessment.
