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Minnesota GreenStep Cities <br />Attachment B <br /> <br />Search <br />Home | The 28 best practices | How to become a GreenStep City | Model Ordinances | City log-in | Contact/Feedback Stay Connected <br />The GreenStep 28 best <br />Buildings and LightingLand Use <br />practices <br />1. Efficient Existing Public Buildings:6. Comprehensive Plan and <br />Benchmark energy usage, identify savings Implementation:Adopt a Comprehensive <br />opportunities, and work with utilities andPlan and tie regulatory ordinances to it. <br />Make planning and tracking easier: download <br />others to implement cost-effective energy <br />this spreadsheet that lists all 168 unique <br />and sustainability improvements.7. Efficient City Growth:Promote <br />actions for all 28 best practices. <br />financial and environmental sustainability by enabling <br />2. Efficient Existing Private Buildings:Provideand encouraging higher density housing and <br />An online version (see view-only example) can <br />incentives for energy, water and sustainabilitycommercial land use. <br />be shared with, and edited by, multiple staff <br />improvements in existing structures. <br />members, citizens and elected officials. E-mail <br />8. Mixed Uses:Develop efficient and healthy land <br />Amir Nadav, Great Plains Institute, for online <br />3. New Green Buildings:Construct new buildings topatterns. <br />access rights. <br />meet or qualify under a green building framework. <br />Cities that implement a minimum number of best <br />9. Efficient Highway-Oriented Development:Adopt <br />practices organized into these five topical areas <br />4. Efficient Building & Street Lighting and Signals:commercial development and design standards for <br />will be recognized as a GreenStep City. See <br />Improve the efficiency of public lighting and signals.highway road corridors. <br />What's required to be a GreenStep City? <br />5. Building Reuse:Create economic and regulatory 10. Conservation Design:Adopt development <br />Cities should claim credit for best practices <br />incentives for redeveloping and repurposing existingordinances or processes that protect natural systems. <br />already implemented. Adding best practices over <br />buildings before building new. <br />time will garner additional recognition. <br />For each best practice, and depending on city <br />category (A, B or C), a city needs to complete one <br />or more actions from a list associated with the <br />best practice. See What category is my city in? <br />TransportationEnvironmental ManagementEconomic and Community <br />Development <br />11. Complete Green Streets:Create a 15. Purchasing:Adopt environmentally <br />network of multimodal green streets.preferable purchasing policies and 24. Benchmarks & Community <br />practices.Engagement:Adopt outcome <br />12. Mobility Options:Promote activemeasures for GreenStep and other city <br />transportation and alternatives to single-occupancy 16. Urban Forests:Increase city tree andsustainability efforts, and engage <br />car travel.plant cover.community members in ongoing <br />education, dialogue, and campaigns. <br />13. Efficient City Fleets:Implement a city fleet 17. Efficient Stormwater Management:Minimize <br />investment, operations and maintenance plan.the volume of and pollutants in rainwater runoff.25. Green Business Development:Support <br />expansion of the green business sector in your city. <br />14. Demand-Side Travel Planning:Implement 18. Parks and Trails:Support active lifestyles by <br />Travel Demand Management and Transit-Orientedenhancing the city's green infrastructure.26. Renewable Energy:Remove barriers to and <br />Design.encourage installation of renewable energy generation <br />19. Surface Water Quality:Improve local watercapacity. <br />bodies. <br />27. Local Food:Strengthen local food and fiber <br />20. Efficient Water and Wastewater Facilities:production and access. <br />Assess and improve city drinking water and <br />wastewater facilities.28. Business Synergies:Network/cluster businesses <br />to achieve better energy, economic and <br />21. Septic Systems:Implement an effectiveenvironmental outcomes. <br />management program for decentralized wastewater <br />treatment systems. <br />22. Solid Waste Reduction:Increase waste <br />reduction, reuse and recycling. <br />23. Local Air Quality:Prevent generation of local air <br />contaminants. <br />Minnesota Pollution Control Agency | Contact | Web site policy <br />http://greenstep.pca.state.mn.us/bestPractices.cfm[4/13/2012 11:44:13 AM] <br /> <br />