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Alameda County: “Resolution Establishing County Climate Change Leadership Strategy”
The Resolution focuses on the leadership strategy of Alameda County including integration into key county processes and a collaborative cross-agency approach to reduce GHG emissions. It also states that Alameda County is committed to progress through the Climate Protection Campaign’s five milestones. www.acgov.org/gsa/Alameda%20County%20Climate%20Change%20Resolution%206-6-06.doc
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City of West Hollywood: “10 Things You Can Do to Combat Global Warming”
The City of West Hollywood provides a list of 10 actions the average citizen can take to reduce Green House Gas emissions. http://www.weho.org/home/showdocument?id=2345
City of Stockton: “Stockton Goes Green”
The City of Stockton has several City initiatives aimed at making the City of Stockton “greener.” This includes programs such as Green Building Initiatives Smart Growth Communities, low emission vehicles, recycling and solid waste, rubberized sidewalks, and water conservation as well as providing examples of what residents and businesses can do to reduce their effect…
City of Santa Monica: “Sustainable City Plan”
The City of Santa Monica’s Sustainable City Plan helps address the root causes of problems and provide criteria for evaluating the long-term rather than short-term impacts of the cities decisions. The program includes goals and strategies for the City government and all sectors of the community as well as numerical indicators and specific targets set…
City of Santa Cruz: “Turning the Tide on Global Warming”
The City of Santa Cruz has a variety of Energy Conservation and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Projects aimed at cutting gases by 30% by 2020 and 80% by 2050. They have also updated their general plan in an attempt to include references to reduce the cities affect on global warming. http://www.cityofsantacruz.com/
City of Santa Barbara: “Sustainable Santa Barbara”
The City of Santa Barbara’s Sustainable Santa Barbara Annual Report highlights the city’s best practices, recent achievements, and future plans pertaining to waste prevention, water quality, conservation, and habitat restoration, and climate protection. http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/Documents/Sustainable_Santa_Barbara/In_the_News/ 00_Annual_Report/2007_Annual_Sustainable_Santa_Barbara_Report.pdf
City and County of San Francisco: “Climate Action Plan”
The City and County of San Francisco’s Climate Action Plan quantifies the emissions they are responsible for and identifies actions required to achieve emissions rollbacks. The City and County of San Francisco is committed to reducing overall greenhouse gas emissions to 20% below 1990 levels by 2012. http://sfenvironment.org/downloads/library/climateactionplan.pdf
City of San Diego: “Climate Protection Action Plan”
The City of San Diego’s Climate Protection Action Plan outlines a 15% GHG reduction goal set for 2010, using 1990 as a baseline and provides recommendations of how to reach this goal and other identified actions and challenges pertaining to Climate Protection. www.sandiego.gov/environmental-services/sustainable/pdf/action_plan_07_05.pdf
City of Los Angeles: “Green LA Plan”
On April 8, 2015, Mayor Eric Garcetti released L.A.’s first-ever Sustainable City pLAn. The pLAn is both a roadmap to achieve back to basics short-term results while setting the path to strengthen and transform our City in the decades to come. This pLAn sets the course for a cleaner environment and a stronger economy, with…
City of Davis: “Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory”
The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory provides a summary of community GHG emissions for the City of Davis and forecasts municipal emissions growth.
City of Berkeley: “Draft Climate Action Plan”
The City of Berkeley’s Draft Climate Action plan addresses the main sources of emissions that cause global warming and guides in the development and enhancement of actions that aggressively cut Berkeley’s greenhouse gas emissions. The City of Berkeley has a goal to reduce GHG emissions by 80% by 2050. http://www.cityofberkeley.info/climate/
City of Arcata: “Community Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan”
The City of Arcata has developed a Community Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan which focuses on six action areas: energy efficiency, renewable energy, sustainable transportation, waste and consumption reduction, carbon sequestration and other methods, and cross-cutting approaches. The City of Arcata has committed to decrease locally generated GHG emissions by 20% below 2000 levels by 2010….
City of Albany: “Climate Action Program”
The City of Albany’s Climate Action Program aims to reduce the emissions that cause global warming, improve air quality, reduce waste, cut energy use, and save money. They plan to develop a Climate Action Plan that consists of policies and measures that, when implemented, will enable the City to meet its target for greenhouse gas…
Organizing a Mapping Exercise in Your Community
The following guidelines provide a jumping off point for organizing and facilitating a mapping exercise. Gather Information Begin by gathering the following types of information from the comprehensive plan or elsewhere: Current use patterns of developed land and identification of land available for development Growth projections for the community (from federal Census data or state…
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September 24, 2013
Participatory Land Use Mapping
As many communities continue to grow in patterns of low-density sprawl, forward thinking planners are looking for ways to develop long range plans that emphasize infill and compact development. This can be a formidable task when these planning principles are met with public resistance. Participatory Land-Use Mapping is a technique used to involve members of…
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Geographic Information Systems: A Tool For Improving Community Livability
GIS software can help policy makers and stakeholders to make more informed and more effective decisions by relating data with place. GIS can take an overwhelming amount of information – tabular, spatial, or graphic – and display it in a way that makes it meaningful to local government staff, policy makers and the public. By…
Public Participation and Visual Surveys
Visual surveys traditionally consist of sets of photographs of buildings, streets, sidewalks, shopping centers, parks, and/or other examples of a region’s built or natural environment. The images are generally taken from within the community, although some images may be from other areas if a depiction of a certain design principle cannot be conveniently found in…
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Public Participation in Community Planning
The way we design and build our civic spaces profoundly affects the health, productivity, and quality of life of every resident.
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Designing Sustainable Communities: Learning from Village Homes
Designing Sustainable Communities examines the history of the sustainable community movement and how Village Homes fits into that context. It offers an inside, start-to-finish look at the project’s development. LGC no longer sells this publication. Copies can be purchased at the Island Press Bookstore.
Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities: School and Local Government Collaborations
Obesity is one of the most pressing health threats to families and children nationwide. Today, one-third of American children and adolescents are either obese or at risk of becoming obese. Children who are overweight or obese increase their likelihood of developing heart disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke, asthma and a host of other serious health…
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September 23, 2013
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