The California Strategic Growth Council highlights a number of local best practices in sustainable planning.
A web-based software platform built to help planners and policy makers determine the best scenarios and outcomes for their communities.
Analyzes steps including the design of more dense, walkable communities, smart road pricing, and reallocating street space to modes other than driving.
Notes that various behavioral shifts could reduce GHG’s from transportation between 6% and 21% by 2050.
Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change, concluding that more compact development can decrease driving rates 20% to 40%; and Moving Cooler, which surveyed sources of potential GHG reduction from transportation.
Evansville and Johnson Controls completed a contract for deep energy efficiency retrofits, valued at $39M initial investment, with a 20 year payback.
Tax of 24 cents per gallon will be collected starting Sept. 1, 2020, and the city expects it to raise $1.6 million in 2021.
Remodels of existing residential and commercial/industrial properties may satisfy various energy standards to be eligible for fast track development review, priority status, permit rebates, and other marketing incentives.
Mandates all non-residential buildings over 50,000 square foot get tune-ups to bring their energy and water systems to their highest efficiency, or submit a certification of high-energy performance to the city.
Requires multifamily properties that use 150%+ of average energy use for similar properties to conduct retrofits that lower energy consumption by at least 20%.