Climate Leadership Survey on Land Use and Community Design

Please answer the short survey below to share your agency’s experiences and strategies for success on reducing greenhouse gas emissions through land use and community design policies and programs.

Because we value openness and transparency, we asked that you log in to our website to share your community’s efforts in reducing greenhouse gases. We thank you in advance for taking the time to share information that can be helpful to other communities throughout the state on ways to combat climate change.

Name of City or County (please indicate whether city or county):

Local Agency:

Question 1:

Yes

Pending

Has your agency adopted land use and/or community design policies or programs related to climate change, such as those intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or to adapt to the impacts of climate change?

Question 2:

Incorporated climate change considerations in our General Plan

Incorporated greenhouse gas emission considerations into the local environmental review process

Adopted policies to promote compact development in new and/or existing neighborhoods

Established a local ordinance or policy to encourage bicycling and walking

Adopted policies to reduce the "urban heat island" effect from paving and building materials

Adopted policies to reduce the volume of water runoff from development in an effort to decrease the amount of runoff that must be pumped and/or treated

Adopted policies to reduce water consumption from landscaping associated with development

Has your agency taken any of the following land use and/or design-related actions to help reduce locally generated greenhouse gases? Please check all that apply.

Question 3:

If your agency has taken a land use and/or design-related action to help reduce locally generated greenhouse gases other than those listed above, please describe.

Question 4:

Programs or policies to encourage or require mixed-use development

Programs or policies to encourage or require transit-oriented development

Programs or policies to encourage or require in-fill development

Community-wide bicycle plan or requirements for individual developments to incorporate bicycle facilities

Community-wide pedestrian plan or requirements for individual developments to design streets for multi-modal mobility

New developments to be built to the LEED for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) standard

Please indicate if your agency has established any of the following specific land use-related policies or programs to help reduce locally generated greenhouse gases. Please check all that apply.

Question 5:

If your agency has established land use-related policies or programs to help reduce locally generated greenhouse gases other than those listed above, please describe.

Question 6:

Partnered with other local agencies to inventory greenhouse gas emissions associated with land use and development in your community

Joined a collaborative partnership with other local agencies to develop and implement land use or community design strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Proposed changes to your general plan or other local plans based on the results of a regional blueprint or other long-range, regional planning effort to develop a climate-friendly growth scenario

Please indicate whether your agency has taken any of the following actions to support inter-agency or regional efforts to reduce land use-related greenhouse gas emissions. Please check all that apply.

Question 7:

Yes

Does your agency have estimates on the amount of greenhouse gas emission reductions expected from your climate change-related land use and community design policies or program?

Question 8:

Please briefly describe your agency’s land use and community design efforts around climate change, highlighting what you believe are its most unique or outstanding aspects.

Question 9:

Please provide a website link where we can find more information on your agency’s climate change, land use and community design efforts, or send an e-mail with information about your program to cpereira@ca-ilg.org.

Question 10:

We may wish to follow-up with a phone call to learn more about your agency’s climate change and land use and community design efforts. Please provide the name, title, phone number, and email address of a staff person we can contact for more information.

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