CLIMATE ACTION PLAN - City of Urbana

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1.8 PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT In addition to the above comments, suggestions were also received for policy, incentive, training, outreach and education programs. Following the Sustainability Advisory Commission’s approval of the final draft for public review on September 4, 2012, the draft Plan was posted on the City of Urbana website along with a feedback web-form. Copies of the Plan along with comment cards were also made available at the Urbana Free Library. Additionally, the draft Plan was available to the public at Urbana’s Market at the Square on September 15 and 22. On October 2, 2012 the City held an open house in the City Council Chambers to take comment on the final draft plan. The open house was publicized on the City’s website and via a press release to local media. The availability of the draft plan for public review was also publicized via a news article on the City’s website; the City’s Sustainability Facebook page; on Smile Politely, an independent online magazine in Champaign-Urbana; via a press release in local media; and via video coverage on WICD (ABC) news. City staff members were interviewed by the Daily Illini. Additionally, staff emailed and called neighborhood associations with list-serves. Public comment received to date is described in Appendix C. 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 on Facebook: www.facebook.com/sustainableurbana Public input sessions in February and May, 2010 City of Urbana 20
1.9 CURRENT PLANS The City of Urbana has adopted a number of sustainability-related plans and studies. The Urbana Climate Action Plan will complement other City documents as part of a “System of Plans”. The following section summarizes the most crucial plans relevant to the Climate Action Plan Phase I. A. 2008 SUSTAINABLE URBANA: APPROACH FOR STRATEGIC PLANNING REPORT In 2008, the City of Urbana presented a report articulating Urbana’s approach to developing a Sustainability Strategic Plan. The report built on sustainability activities initiated by the City from 2007, including brainstorming sessions on ways to reduce Urbana’s environmental footprint, the Mayor’s endorsement of the U.S. Mayor Climate Protection Agreement in May 2007 and a public forum convened by the Mayor in February 2008 entitled “Sustainability: What You Can Do”. The Approach to Strategic Planning Report explains Urbana’s sustainability initiatives within the context of other city plans and achievements. The report establishes the City’s broad sustainability goals, provides implementation strategies and articulates a future course of action. These include the commitment to exceed the Kyoto Protocol target for a 5 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels by 2012. B. 2005 URBANA COMPREHENSIVE PLAN The Comprehensive Plan guides planning and development policy for the City and the one-and-half mile territory adjacent to the City limits. It is the primary planning document for the City and greatly affects how Urbana will develop. Four main principles make up the foundation of the Comprehensive plan: Quality of Life, Sensible Growth, Services and Infrastructure, and Mobility. Each principle has multiple goals, several of which are helpful in guiding strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. For example, ensuring land use patterns conserve energy, minimizing the impact of natural and man-made disasters, preserving natural resources and environmentally sensitive areas (Quality of Life: goals 5,6,8); promoting infill development and encouraging compact, contiguous and sensible growth, increasing the vitality of downtown Urbana (Sensible Growth: goals 15, 18, 22); encouraging development where infrastructure already exists, protecting areas from increases in runoff and localized flooding, and improving quality of life through social services, affordable housing and economic opportunity (Services and Infrastructure: goals 34, 36, 39); and optimizing existing transportation systems, improving access to transportation modes, creating a multi-modal system, avoiding development which is overly-dependent on the automobile, improving pedestrian and bicycle facilities, and integrating land-use and transportation concerns for new projects (Mobility: goals 45-50). In 2012, the Urbana Comprehensive Plan was amended to include a ‘Complete Streets Element’. Complete streets are designed and operated to enable safe access for pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and transit riders of all ages and abilities to enable safe passage along and across a street. C. 2009 LONG RANGE TRANSPORTATION PLAN The Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP) is a federally mandated document that is updated every five years by the Champaign County Regional Planning Commission. The Plan details how the urbanized area transportation system will evolve over the next twenty five years. The current LRTP looks at the projected evolution of automobile, bicycle, pedestrian, bus transit, rail and air travel to the year 2035, in order to identify regionally beneficial transportation projects to receive federal funding. The LRTP goals support greenhouse gas reduction by encouraging non-single occupancy vehicle travel (Goal 1); advocating compact development and mixed-use development and redevelopment to create a more walkable, sustainable, and efficient development pattern (Goal 2); requiring a transportation system having convenient multi-modal access to all parts of the urbanized area with the capacity to increase mobility during peak traffic hours (Goal 5); providing facilities for non-auto modes of transportation in order to improve mobility and decrease the number of vehicles on our roadways (Goal 6); adopting an approach to transportation planning which promotes environmental stewardship and energy conservation (Goal 7); and prioritizing improvement to existing roadways and adding pedestrian, bicycle and transit facilities where needed (Goal 12). City of Urbana 21
Page 1 and 2: CLIMATE ACTION PLAN PHASE 1: INITIA
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4.4 APPENDIX F: POPULATION, EMPLOYM
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