1. Mayors’ Commission on Climate Change
Built Environment Technical Advisory Committee
Preliminary Recommendations – Update to Sacramento Environmental Commission
Obadiah Bartholomy, SMUD | TAC Lead

2. Agenda Vision Priority Strategies Potential Funding Sources
Key Principles
Priority Strategies
Land Use
New Buildings
Existing Buildings
Potential Funding Sources

3. Draft Vision
We envision compact, walkable communities that integrate efficient design, localized renewable energy systems, and nature-based solutions, leveraging carbon neutrality to achieve positive health, equity, economic development, and resiliency outcomes. Investments will match priorities and strategies will be pursued in a manner that considers both costs, including avoided costs, and benefits.
Communities will be fossil-free and fully electrified with an abundance of green space and affordable housing, designed to prioritize vibrant public spaces, multimodal and active transportation, resource conservation, and quality of life for all.

4. Key Principles
Authentically and inclusively engage residents, stakeholders, businesses and community leaders
Prioritize investments and projects in existing communities and existing development, particularly in disadvantaged communities
Align all local plans with the Commission’s recommendations by 2025
Forge regional partnerships to support ambitious action on climate change
Enable and implement the ambitious actions necessary to achieve the recommended carbon neutrality goal

5. A Key Challenge In Focus
Building Decarbonization
Emissions from natural gas combustion for appliances remain the biggest challenge
Like many cities in California, these recommendations look to electrification to address this challenge
Many co-benefits of eliminating combustion
SMUD offers generous incentives aimed at Market Transformation, but need local policy support

6. Priority Strategies

7. Land Use
Strategy
Establish an Urban Growth Boundary to allocate all new growth regionally to existing developed areas by 2025

8. Land Use Implementation Tactics
Introduce and advocate for state, regional, and local regulations that clearly limit new development to existing developed areas in the region
Enable 35,000 new high density, affordable, and accessible residences through the continuation of the City’s expansion of by-right zoning, financial incentives, and modifying single family dwelling designations, coupled with anti-displacement policies
Establish a locational efficiency metric by 2020 to prioritize low emissions development, which could be a combination of walk score, Vehicles Miles Traveled (VMT), carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) and/or building siting and efficiency

9. New Construction Strategy
Mandate all-electric new construction to eliminate fossil fuel use in new buildings by 2023

10. New Construction Implementation Tactics
Adopt and implement an ordinance that would result in 100% electrification of all new construction by 2023.
Adopt a measure to reduce the embodied carbon emissions from building materials and construction of new buildings by 40% (compared to 2018)
Identify large-scale development projects in progress to encourage electrification

11. Existing Buildings Strategy
Transition 25% of existing residential buildings and small commercial buildings to all electric by 2030

12. Existing Buildings Implementation Tactics
Require property owners to install electric appliances when replacing natural gas appliances and develop an enforcement mechanism that would result in 100% compliance
Establish a comprehensive electrification and energy efficiency program to reduce the energy burden of low-income residences while expediting the decommissioning of aging natural gas infrastructure in disadvantaged communities.
Establish building performance standards and GHG emission limits by 2021 with as the first year of compliance supported by a benchmarking and audit ordinance and determining the building types where CEC-approved certifications will be mandatory

13. Potential Funding Sources
SACOG Green Means Go Pilot Program - $400M for infill + mobility solutions – requested to legislature
Pay as You Save (PAYS) on-bill financing program
Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program
SB – 743 Implementation/VMT Mitigation Fees
SGC Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program
SMUD incentive programs for building electrification – Currently up to $10K per home for existing residential, up to $5K for residential new construction

14. Key Takeaways
Substantially increase efforts to promote more efficient land use
Adopt transformative policies to promote all-electric buildings
Many important co-benefits (e.g., health, air quality, cost savings)
Technologies exists today
Incentives available
Not alone, many cities doing this

15. Thank you!