CLIMATE ACTION PLAN - City of Urbana

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3.3 CONSOLIDATED IMPLEMENTATION TABLE Implementation Strategies Category of Strategy Priority Potential Partners PREPARE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS Goal 4 Action 1 Form a Task Force to study special considerations for preparing for local climate change impacts. 1 Form a task force of planning staff, public works staff, the SAC, and other subject matter experts to study the special considerations for preparing for local climate change impacts. Information and Outreach 1 City of Urbana, Champaign Urbana Public Health District, University of Illinois, Champaign County Regional Planning Commission, Urbana & Champaign Sanitary District PURSUE COORDINATION AND OUTREACH Goal 5 Action 1 Sustainability Advisory Commission coordination of City Plans and Policies. 1 Establish a communication protocol for SAC coordination of City plans and policies. Coordination 1 City of Urbana Coordination 1 City of Urbana 2 Form an Inter-Departmental City Green team to coordinate sustainability and climate action activities in an integrated and efficient manner. Encourage energy efficient behavior and individual actions. Encourage energy efficiency in new developments. Action 2 Action 3 Encourage participation in existing sustainability programs. Action 4 Information and Outreach 1 City of Urbana, United Citizens and Neighbors (UCAN), Downtown Neighborhood Association (DNA), North Broadway Neighbors (NBN), West Urbana Neighborhood Association (WUNA), Historic East Urbana Neighborhood Association (HEUNA), Lierman Neighborhood Action Committee (LNAC), Southeast Urbana Neighborhood Association (SUNA), AmVets II Neighborhood Association, Urbana Community Alternative Policing (UCAP), UBA, IGBA 1 Partner with Neighborhood Associations and stakeholders in the construction, business and industrial sectors to identify specific barriers to participation in Climate Action activities and areas for integration of economic development goals in climate action goals. Information and Outreach 3 City of Urbana, Urbana School District 116 2 Seek opportunities to collaborate on Climate Action events and programs with Urbana School District 116. 3 Publicize and encourage participation in existing programs. Information and Outreach 2 City of Urbana Action 5 Monitor progress on climate action goals. 1 Define indicators to measure progress towards climate action goals. Monitoring 1 City of Urbana 2 Monitor progress by conducting an emissions inventory at two year intervals. Monitoring 1 City of Urbana Monitoring 2 City of Urbana 3 Receive briefs on aspects of emissions accounting associated with municipal electric aggregation. Acronyms used: ISTC: Illinois Sustainable Technology Center IGBA: Illinois Green Business Association CCEDC: Champaign County Economic Development Corporation CCNet: Champaign County Sustainability Network CCRPC: Champaign County Regional Planning Commission CNT: Center for Neighborhood Technology CUUATS: Champaign Urbana Urbanized Traffic Study CUMTD: Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District SEDAC: Smart Energy Design Assistance Center UBA: Urbana Business Association USGBC-IL: U.S. Green Building Council Central Illinois Branch City of Urbana 66
3.4 FUTURE STEPS AND CHALLENGES TO CLIMATE ACTION Over the next two years from the City Council’s adoption of Phase I, the strategies identified in this plan will be implemented and their effectiveness will be assessed through conversations with community organizations and resident groups, interviews with key stakeholders, surveys and public input sessions. Based on data gathered over the next two years, a Phase II document will be written defining additional strategies to take the City the rest of the way to its greenhouse gas emission reduction goal. Successful implementation of the Urbana Climate Action Plan will have to negotiate a number of challenges that can make achieving the plan’s goals difficult: FUNDING Identifying sources of funding for the plan’s implementation strategies in an uncertain economic condition. Urbana is fortunate to have a number of institutions already addressing greenhouse gas emissions that can be utilized to implement the plan’s strategies. Many of these are listed in the plan’s implementation table. Furthermore, the City will pursue grant opportunities to fund the plan’s implementation strategies. BALANCING LOCAL GOVERNMENT PRIORITIES Local governments have a great number of priorities and obligations in their service to residents. Implementation of the Climate Action Plan will be most successful where the actions can be tailored to create co-benefits serving additional local government priorities. REGIONAL COLLABORATION Regional Collaboration represents both opportunity and challenge. It’s understood that when municipalities, agencies, and organizations collaborate on efforts of mutual concern, they take advantage of economies of scale and avoid working at cross purposes. However, in practice, regional collaboration is very difficult as the parties have to negotiate varying priorities, resources, and publics. Urbana’s Climate Action Plan will be benefit from engaging potential partners early, often, and face to face. DETERMINING BARRIERS TO ADOPTING SUSTAINABLE BEHAVIORS Research has shown that adopting sustainable behaviors requires more than simply posting information on a website. The City will need to seek out existing research or conduct our own research to determine the most effective means to engage residents in sustainable behaviors through community-based social marketing strategies such as commitments, social diffusion, prompts, norms, and communication. DATA COLLECTION Timely, comprehensive, and detailed data is necessary for tuning implementation strategies and judging the results of actions undertaken. Sometimes, reliable data does not exist. But where it does exist, it can be time consuming to collect and analyze. Furthermore, data necessary to plan climate action implementation strategies often resides with many different agencies and companies with varying degrees of privacy regarding the sharing of data. The City will benefit from developing partnerships with data suppliers that appropriate types of data are supplied in regular intervals. City of Urbana 67
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CLIMATE ACTION PLAN PHASE 1: INITIA
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A MESSAGE FROM THE MAYOR August 31,
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5 GOALS : 15 ACTIONS THE URBANA CLI
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to reach long-term emissions reduct
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1.1 INTRODUCTION Never in the past
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1.2 CLIMATE CHANGE CONCEPTS A. GREE
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1.3 THE BENEFITS OF LOCAL ACTION Ur
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