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TCAAP Energy Integration Resiliency Framework Policy White Paper – Exhibit II – Green Zoning Incentives Adopted by Other Localities 73 residential, office and retail uses in both historic and new buildings. They are working with the City’s Office of Environmental Sustainability on green-building practices and have completed LEED-ND Stage 1 review at the Platinum level. The City also created a Tax Incremental Finance District to help fund infrastructure, such as new public streets, for the Brewery project. In 2006, the City created a Development Incentive Zone for the brewery site to replace the underlying zoning standards with performance standards. The underlying zoning district’s permitted and special uses become permitted as a matter of right in the overlay district. In January 2008, the City Common Council adopted an amendment to the Brewery Development Incentive Zone to include sustainability guidelines. The guidelines cover many principles found in the LEED-ND rating system, such as the preservation and reuse of historic buildings, recycling of construction demolition, landscaping, efficient street lighting, heat island reduction, water efficiency, stormwater management, and green building practices. 1.4. El Paso, TX46 In January 2011, the El Paso City Council unanimously approved a substantial new plan for the city’s future. Connecting El Paso seeks to direct population growth and to incorp orate former industrial sites into the urban fabric by promoting smart growth planning and transit -oriented development under the city’s new transit plan. While not a comprehensive plan for the entire city, Connecting El Paso serves as a comprehensive plan for four transit growth areas: Remcon Circle, 5 Points, the Oregon Corridor, and the 450-acre former ASARCO site. Among the plan’s eight policy recommendations is a proposal to use LEED-ND both to rate development projects and to prioritize infrastructure investments, permitting and grants. This recommendation included a suggestion that the City partner with the local USGBC chapter to provide education about LEED-ND to city staff and building professionals. On September 11, 2007, the El Paso City Council unanimously adopted the Green Building Grant Program, providing grants for commercial and multi-family, multi-story residential projects earning LEED certification. Grants are awarded only upon receipt of a certificate of occupancy and review of LEED certification wherein ten (10) of the seventeen (17) available points in Energy & Atmosphere credit category must be earned. Grants are awarded at increasing intervals determining on level of certification. Maximum grant allowance is $200,000 for LEED Platinum for new construction and $400,000 for LEED Platinum for “multistory existing buildings” that are mixed use and that have been 50% vacant for 5 years, and as further defined by the City. 46 Connecting El Paso: http://planelpaso.org/wp-content/reports/Connecting%20El%20Paso%20Report_120910_lores.pdf