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2015 Energy Benchmarking Report: San Francisco Municipal Buildings

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2016

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source San Francisco Water Power Sewer

Policy Areas Energy, Community Development, Public Spaces, Environment & Natural Resources

This fifth annual report details the energy performance of 468 San Francisco municipal facilities encompassing nearly 49 million square feet of building area during calendar year 2015. San Francisco began to benchmark its properties in 2011, when the San Francisco Existing Commercial...

Staying Green: Strategies to Improve Operations and Maintenance of Green Infrastructure in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2016

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source American Rivers

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources

Polluted stormwater runoff is one of the largest growing sources of pollution in the Chesapeake Bay. To mitigate this problem, green infrastructure practices can be used to manage urban runoff by capturing and infiltrating rainwater where it falls. One of the major challenges to the...

Minneapolis Code of Ordinances on Building Energy Benchmarking

Type Ordinance

Year 2012

Level City or Town

State(s) Minnesota

Source Minneapolis City Council

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Community Development, Public Spaces, Energy

This act establishes the Minneapolis building energy benchmarking program. In particular, each city-owned building and covered building shall be benchmarked for the previous calendar year. Such information shall be made available to the public, including summary statistics on the...

2007 Gaithersburg Ordinance O-14-07

Type Ordinance

Year 2007

Level City or Town

State(s) Maryland

Source Gaithersburg City Council

Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Environment & Natural Resources, Housing, Public Safety, Energy

This ordinance requires that new residential building construction projects and building addition projects to meet specific energy performance standards. The ordinance creates energy performance standards for the areas of cooling equipment, heating equipment, duct work, windows, water...

Green Building and Green Points Guideline Booklet

Type Ordinance

Year 2013

Level City or Town

State(s) Colorado

Source City of Boulder

Policy Areas Community Development, Housing

The Green Building and Green Points Guideline Booklet include updates to Boulder's residential building guide that seek to keep up with the many developments within sustainable construction practices and continue an effort to make the building regulatory process work toward overall...

The Impact of the Built Environment on Mental Wellness

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2018

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Urban Habitat

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources, Community Development, Public Spaces, Housing, Public Safety, Health, Transportation & Mobility

The physical landscapes of places and the sociocultural context in which people live and build communities have direct and indirect effects on mental wellness. This report looks at how factors related to the built environment, such as exclusionary land use practices, green spaces,...

San Antonio: A Case Study for Advanced Codes

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2009

Level City or Town

State(s) Texas

Source The Building Codes Assistance Project

Policy Areas Energy, Community Development, Public Spaces, Environment & Natural Resources

OCEAN is an online resources of the Building Codes Assistance Project. Here they provide a case study of the work happening in San Antonio. On March 12, 2009, the San Antonio City Council voted to approve and adopt a new Sustainable Buildings Ordinance that increases the energy efficiency...

The Value of Green Infrastructure A Guide to Recognizing Its Economic, Environmental and Social Benefits

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2010

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source Center for Neighborhood Technology

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Energy, Community Development

The guide aims to inform decision-makers and planners about the multiple benefits green infrastructure (GI) delivers to communities and to guide communities in valuing the benefits of potential green infrastructure investments. This guide distills key considerations involved in assessing...

Green Infrastructure Portfolio Standard: A Guide to the Green Infrastructure Portfolio Standard And Building Stormwater Retrofits

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2012

Level City or Town, County

State(s) -

Source Center for Neighborhood Technology

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Energy

A guide to the Green Infrastructure Portfolio Standard for municipalities interested in sustainability and struggling with existing infrastructure and stormwater management needs....

The Benefits of PACE Financing for Commercial Real Estate Companies

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2016

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source PACENation

Policy Areas Energy, Environment & Natural Resources, Community Development, Public Spaces, Economic Justice, Civil Rights

Property managers often struggle to get technically sound energy efficiency and renewable energy projects approved for financial reasons. Sometimes the split incentive embedded in leases makes projects uneconomic for the building owner. Other times, property managers simply cannot...

Regional Green Building Case Study Project: A post‐occupancy study of LEED projects in Illinois

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2009

Level State

State(s) Illinois

Source Center for Neighborhood Technology

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Transportation & Mobility, Housing

The Regional Green Building Case Study Project analyzes the post‐occupancy performance and costs and benefits of 25 LEED projects in Illinois related to: measured energy and greenhouse gas emissions, water, commute transportation, construction and operating costs, green premium, health...

Retrofitting Institutions

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2012

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source COWS

Policy Areas Energy, Community Development, Public Spaces, Environment & Natural Resources, Economic Justice, Civil Rights

Governments everywhere are looking for ways to create new, quality jobs, despite restricted budgets. Although many have enacted programs that facilitate energy efficiency retrofits for the residential and commercial sectors, retrofit of public buildings has garnered little policy...

Chicago Building Energy Use Benchmarking Ordinance

Type Ordinance

Year 2013

Level City or Town

State(s) Illinois

Source Ordinance For The City Of Chicago

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Community Development, Public Spaces, Energy

This act establishes the Chicago building energy benchmarking program. Each building owner shall report benchmarking information including building identification number, address, square footage, energy performance score, energy use intensity, and annual greenhouse gas emissions....

Investigating City Commitments to 100% Renewable Energy: Local Transitions and Energy Democracy

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Institute for Local Self-Reliance

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources

Renewable energy serves as a viable solution to replace fossil fuel generation to create a healthier environment. A number of cities across the United States are pledging to reach community-wide goals of 100 percent renewable energy, in order to combat the social, environmental, and...

The Benefits of Benchmarking Building Performance

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2016

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Institute For Market Transformation

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Community Development, Public Spaces, Energy

It is relatively easy to make the connection that tracking and disclosing a building's energy usage will promote energy savings, but in fact, there are many other benefits that go far beyond simply kilowatt hours. While benchmarking brings building owners' attention to energy efficiency,...

The Value of Green Infrastructure: A Guide to Recognizing Its Economic, Environmental and Social Benefits

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2010

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Center for Neighborhood Technology

Policy Areas Energy, Finance & Procurement, Community Development, Public Spaces, Environment & Natural Resources

Green infrastructure (GI) is a network of decentralized stormwater management practices, such as green roofs, trees, rain gardens and permeable pavement that can capture and infiltrate rain where it falls, thus reducing stormwater runoff and improving the health of surrounding waterways....

Energy-Efficiency Benchmarking and Disclosure

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2013

Level City or Town

State(s) Illinois

Source National Resources Defense Council

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Community Development, Public Spaces, Energy, Environment & Natural Resources, Democracy & Governance

Fact sheet supporting Chicago's energy benchmarking program....

A Roadmap for Resilience: Investing in Resilience, Reinvesting in Communities

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2015

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Re:Focus Partners

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Community Development, Public Spaces

Cities and communities around the world are struggling to finance and replace aging, failing, or inadequate infrastructure systems. This report offers a new framework for bridging the gap between the growing consensus that it is necessary to build resilient infrastructure and the...

The Energy Conservation Audit and Disclosure Ordinance

Type Ordinance

Year 2008

Level City or Town

State(s) Texas

Source City Of Austin

Policy Areas Energy, Community Development, Public Spaces, Environment & Natural Resources

The Energy Conservation Audit and Disclosure (ECAD) ordinance requires commercial building owners to benchmark and report their energy use rating by June 1st each year. The ordinance applies to commercial buildings 10,000 sf or larger that are located within the Austin city limits...

PACE Guide: Working with Community Leaders

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2016

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source PACENation

Policy Areas Energy, Environment & Natural Resources, Community Development, Public Spaces, Economic Justice, Civil Rights

Community leaders care most about an issue when their own constituents are involved. Having local property owners voice an interest in PACE is a great way to get the attention of a government board. Form partnerships with stakeholders in the community through chambers of commerce...

How Circular Economies Will Drive a New Urban Metabolism

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Meeting Of The Minds

Policy Areas Energy, Transportation & Mobility, Finance & Procurement

Although the traditional linear economy brought much prosperity, it has functioned by taking primary resources, turning them into products, and disposing of the waste. In the face of the global climate change crisis, cities need to transit to circular economy. In a city with a circular...

How to Issue a Green Muni Bond

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2015

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Green City Bonds Coalition

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Energy, Transportation & Mobility, Democracy & Governance

Municipal bonds are one financing tool well suited to close the U.S. infrastructure investment gap. The U.S. municipal bond market has funded large-scale, long-term capital-intensive projects in states and cities, as well as their operational expenses, since the beginning of the 1900s....

Lean, Energy-Efficient Buildings: Seven Principles

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2021

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source The Project For Lean Urbanism

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Energy, Community Development, Housing

The built environment accounts for approximately half the energy use and carbon footprint of the United States. Lean Buildings reduce energy flows by tapping basic natural heating and cooling techniques and renewable energy sources in ways that are region-specific and climate-sensitive....

Cuyahoga County Council legislation to partner with Emerald Cities

Type Model Law

Year 2012

Level County

State(s) All States, Ohio

Source Policy Matters Ohio

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources

Resolution No. R2012-0041: A Resolution supporting and collaborating with Emerald Cities Cleveland/Cuyahoga County to create a clean energy economy in Cuyahoga County by developing community workforce opportunities, enhancing environmentally sustainable practices and assisting Cuyahoga...

Boston Benchmarking Law

Type Ordinance

Year 2013

Level City or Town

State(s) Massachusetts

Source Boston City Council

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Community Development, Public Spaces, Energy

In order to reduce the emissions of air pollutants from energy production, encourage efficient use of energy and water, and develop further investment in building a green economy, this ordinance requires that the City and building owners disclose the previous year's energy and water...

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