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TCAAP Energy Integration Resiliency Framework <br />Policy White Paper – Policy and Regulation Overview <br /> <br /> 50 <br />land use zoning designations towards a holistic view of the site, providing flexibility in how different <br />use types interact, provided developments meet more prescriptive physical guidelines.27 <br />This approach has general implications for innovations in future site energy use. At the site and <br />neighborhood level, use types and locations are flexible, which facilitates attracting energy loads with <br />certain local energy benefits. Developers and energy planners will be able to identify building types <br />with beneficial energy services – for example, high thermal loads or elastic (responsive or sheddable) <br />electrical loads. At the individual building level, the reliance on specific requirements for individual <br />architectural details may limit low energy, passive, or net-zero building designs. Attention to broader <br />allowances and flexibility for innovative building design are beneficial should they meet the needs of <br />the TCAAP energy framework. <br />The Project Team recognizes the approval process for the TCAAP Redevelopment Code is moving <br />quickly, and that tangible, consistent guidelines are critical for moving development forward towards a <br />unified sense of place. Exhibit IV includes specific suggestions for updates to the TCAAP <br />Redevelopment Code that can further encourage the use of onsite low-carbon energy supplies and <br />efficient design. Some specific components of these recommendations include: <br /> Allowance of certain renewable materials for shading or screening . <br /> Allowance of certain building shading or glazing techniques that can reduce a buildings cooling <br />or heating demand. <br /> Recommendations to encourage consideration of solar potential and optimized shading in site <br />street orientation and landscaping plans. <br />However, given that the specific designs required to achieve the energy vision are site, building, and <br />use-type specific, and that many technologies and strategies are still emerging, identifying <br />opportunities for additional future flexibility could further assist in attracting inn ovative energy <br />demonstration and design projects that could serve as flagship developments. This could include a <br />process for new technology review at specified time increments, or a designation or allowance of <br />energy “demonstration” buildings when certain strict performance and educational criteria are met. <br /> <br />27 City of Arden Hills, Draft TCAAP Redevelopment Code, August 2014.