Consistently monitor surface water quality/clarity and report findings to community members.
Consistently monitor surface water quality/clarity and report findings to community members.
Water quality
Adopt a complete streets policy, or a living streets policy, which addresses landscaping and stormwater.
Adopt a complete streets policy, or a living streets policy, which addresses landscaping and stormwater.
Use 21st century ecodistrict tools to structure, guide and link multiple green and sustainable projects together in a mixed-use
Use 21st century ecodistrict tools to structure, guide and link multiple green and sustainable projects together in a mixed-use neighborhood/development, or innovation district, aiming to deliver superior social, environmental and economic outcomes.
Lower the environmental and health risk footprint of a brownfield remediation/redevelopment project beyond regulatory requirements; report brightfield projects
Lower the environmental and health risk footprint of a brownfield remediation/redevelopment project beyond regulatory requirements; report brightfield projects.
Adopt a shoreland ordinance for all river and lake shoreland areas.
Adopt a shoreland ordinance for all river and lake shoreland areas.
Adopt and publicly report on measurable surface water improvement targets for lake, river, wetland and ditches.
Adopt and publicly report on measurable surface water improvement targets for lake, river, wetland and ditches.
Include ecological provisions in the comprehensive plan that explicitly aim to minimize open space fragmentation and/or establish a growth area with expansion criteria.
Include ecological provisions in the comprehensive plan that explicitly aim to minimize open space fragmentation and/or establish a growth area with expansion criteria.
Support and protect wildlife through habitat rehabilitation, preservation and recognition programs.
Support and protect wildlife through habitat rehabilitation, preservation and recognition programs.
Preserve environmentally sensitive, community-valued land by placing a conservation easement on city lands, and by encouraging/f
Preserve environmentally sensitive, community-valued land by placing a conservation easement on city lands, and by encouraging/funding private landowners to place land in conservation easements.