29 10 KEYS
to Sustainability Planning Success
Follow these steps to develop a sustainability plan that details how to make your community greener, more equitable, and more prosperous.
BY DON KNAPP
tal, and economic conditions in their ju- risdiction. A common framework to guide their efforts is a sustainability plan. Trailblazers like New York City, Port-
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land, and Minneapolis have shown that the end product of sustainability plan- ning is worth the effort: a detailed blue- print to combat climate change, save energy and taxpayer dollars, nurture solid economic development, renew in- frastructure, and improve public health and education for all. “When you look at the regions that
ustainability is not an end goal, but a journey that cities and counties can take to improve the social equity, environmen-
are really embracing walkability, invest- ing in transit, and thinking about natural resources protection, these are the re- gions that are weathering the [economic] downturn best,” said Shelley Poticha, Director of the U.S. Housing and Urban Development’s Of f ice of Sustainable Housing and Communities, in a February 2010 interview on the website BUILDER. “I think one of the big lessons of the last decade is that cities do have the ability to envision a new future and put it into ac- tion in a relatively short period of time.” A 2009 Living Cities survey found
that four in five of the 40 largest U.S. cities consider sustainability among their top five priorities. Approximately one-half
are either currently creating sustainability plans or have finished one within the past year, and another one-quarter finished their plans earlier. For cities, towns, and counties, the
keys to sustainability planning success are the same. ICLEI’s Sustainability Planning Toolkit (available only to ICLEI member lo- cal governments) provides complete guid- ance and tools to develop a sustainability plan, developed on the model pioneered by New York’s PlaNYC sustainability plan. Its key lessons are distilled below, and are worth a read for urban planners, plumbers, lawyers—anyone who lives in a commu- nity that values sustainability and is begin- ning its sustainability planning process.
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