CLIMATE ACTION PLAN - City of Urbana

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Urbana Sustainability Advisory Commission Marya Ryan, Chair Stephen Wald, Vice-Chair Gary Cziko John Marlin Aaron Petri Todd Rusk Rachel Vellenga Jean Ascoli (former member) Kirstin Dohrer (former member) Jennifer Monson (former member) Amy Ando (former member) Urbana Mayor & City Council Laurel Lunt Prussing, Mayor Charlie Smyth, Ward 1 Eric Jakobsson, Ward 2 Robert E. Lewis, Ward 3 Brandon Bowersox, Ward 4 Dennis P. Roberts, Ward 5 Heather D. Stevenson, Ward 6 Diane W. Marlin, Ward 7 City of Urbana Staff Elizabeth H. Tyler, FAICP, Director of Community Development Services Bill Gray, Director of Public Works Robert Myers, AICP, Planning Manager Jeff Engstrom, AICP, Planner II Rebecca Bird, AICP, Planner II Courtney Rushforth, Recycling Coordinator Kate L. Brickman, Administrative Assistant Jason Arrasmith, Environmental Compliance Officer Anna Hochhalter, Economic Development Intern Aditi Kambuj, Community Development Intern Bart Hagston, Former Environmental Sustainability Manager Rod Fletcher, Former Environmental Manager Comments on the Urbana Climate Action Plan Phase 1 can be made via: Mail: Website: A completed Public Input Form (Appendix D) can be mailed to City of Urbana, 400 S Vine Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801. Comments on the Climate Action Plan Phase I can be made at www.urbanaillinois.us/climateactionplan . Discuss Climate Action in Urbana at: Facebook: www.facebook.com/sustainableurbana City of Urbana 2
A MESSAGE FROM THE MAYOR August 31, 2012 Dear Citizens of Urbana, As climate change emerged as an international problem, cities around the world have taken the lead in finding solutions. Cities act because they recognize that they will deal with the human costs of climate change. National governments still struggle to come to agreement on this issue. Cities are able to move more quickly. Many cities are reducing greenhouse gases not only in their own operations but by educating the public about practical action we all can take. Urbana is a small city, so what difference can we make In fact, a few Urbana residents have made a big difference already. The University of Illinois, a top research university, brings bright minds together . Don Wuebbles, University of Illinois climate scientist, and one of the recipients of the 2007 Nobel Prize for the international Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, helped document the reality of climate change and the need to reduce greenhouse gases. Nick Holonyak, Jr., University of Illinois Bardeen professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, invented the LED. Professor Holonyak, who lives in Urbana, has transformed lighting systems worldwide. At the C40 Large Cities Climate Summit in Seoul, Korea in 2009 the largest cities on earth were talking about installing LED lighting and the energy savings they achieved. At the kind invitation of Professor Wuebbles and the City of Seoul, Marya Ryan, Chair of Urbana’s Sustainability Advisory Commission, and I attended the 2009 meeting in Seoul (oddly enough, I was the only American mayor present, although other U.S. cities sent staff). Mayors and officials from all over the world-- Beijing, Sydney, Copenhagen, London and many others-- shared ideas. All realize we face the same challenges and can learn from one another. The City of Urbana Climate Action Plan is our commitment to streamline municipal operations and to educate our citizens and others about how we can reduce the threat of climate change. Students come to the University of Illinois from around the world. They are the future leaders in their countries. Urbana’s implementation of the ideas in this plan can be part of their education outside the classroom. And we can learn from them. So a small city like Urbana can have a big impact. My initial charge to the Sustainability Advisory Commission was to consider conservation of both energy and water. This first report deals only with energy. They plan to deal with water issues next. All these plans are works in progress that will be modified as we move forward. Marya Ryan has ably chaired the Sustainability Advisory Commission and wrote an initial draft of this report. We thank her and all who have served on the Commission as well as the staff of the city’s Community Development and Public Works departments for the many months they have spent on developing this plan. Laurel Lunt Prussing City of Urbana 3
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4.4 APPENDIX F: POPULATION, EMPLOYM
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