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Second Meeting April 24, 2012 "The Cleaner Greener Lincoln initiative will make the City of Lincoln an active leader in the area of sustainability, building.

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2 Second Meeting April 24, 2012 "The Cleaner Greener Lincoln initiative will make the City of Lincoln an active leader in the area of sustainability, building upon Lincoln's extraordinary community commitment to its quality of life, investing stimulus and other resources, facilitating energy savings at the city, neighborhood, and business levels, fostering new ideas and partnerships, making it easy and affordable to be sustainable in Lincoln, and putting Lincoln in the fore as the green capital city of the Great Plains." Mayor Chris Beutler, June 4, 2009

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4 Second Meeting April 24, 2012 Why a “Sustainable Lincoln”? What matters is what’s measured Vision of LPlan 2040

5 Second Meeting April 24, 2012 Definition of Sustainability Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs… …Without lowering our present quality of life or our economic opportunities.

6 Second Meeting April 24, 2012 Follow Up from March 2012 Meeting: Technical Memos Website

7 Second Meeting April 24, 2012 Recommendation Process: Target(s) Agree Agree IF Disagree Other Final Set of Recommendations

8 Second Meeting April 24, 2012 Air Water Land Waste Energy Transportation Community

9 Second Meeting April 24, 2012 Use of EcoSteps Five Domains Assessment Tool

10 Second Meeting April 24, 2012 Technical Presentations: –Wastewater Recycling –LPlan 2040 Dwelling Unit Projections

11 Second Meeting April 24, 2012 IndicatorTarget(s) Air Quality  Maintain “Good” air quality on the Air Quality Index in at least 90% of days measured each year. Source: Department of Health, EPA

12 Second Meeting April 24, 2012 IndicatorTarget(s) Water Conservation Reduce 4 year average demand to 110 gallons per capita per year by 2015. Keep all “Unaccounted for Water” in system less than 5%. Source: Department of Public Works and Utilities

13 Second Meeting April 24, 2012 IndicatorTarget(s) Water Quality Continue to meet and exceed all federal and state safe water drinking standards 100% of the time. Source: Department of Public Works and Utilities

14 Second Meeting April 24, 2012 IndicatorTarget(s) Storm Water Require Stormwater “Best Management Practices” as basic standard, subject to exceptions, for all developments and construction activity requiring City planning, zoning, and building and safety review by 2012. Source: Department of Public Works and Utilities

15 Second Meeting April 24, 2012 IndicatorTarget(s) Water Reclamation Expand programs to recycle and reuse treated wastewater effluent and bio-solids by 20% by 2025. Expand use of “greywater” systems within City of Lincoln by 20% by 2015. Source: Departments of Public Works and Utilities; Health; Building and Safety

16 Second Meeting April 24, 2012 IndicatorTarget(s) Land Use: Dwelling Units Build at least 5,000 total new dwelling units by 2022, with a total of at least 8,000 by 2027, in the “Existing Lincoln City Limits (2011)” (excluding “Tier I”) area within the LPlan 2040’s “2040 Priority Growth Areas, Map 1.3: Growth Tiers with Priority Areas.” Source: Planning Department

17 Second Meeting April 24, 2012 IndicatorTarget(s) Land Use: Green Space Maintain green and open space of at least 10% of the property within city limits. Use the Greenprint Challenge as a guide in all land use planning processes. Source: Departments of Parks and Rec; Urban Development; Planning

18 Second Meeting April 24, 2012 IndicatorTarget(s) Land Use: Parks Maintain ratios of 1.3 acres of Neighborhood Parks and 2.4 acres of Community Parks per 1,000 residents. Source: Parks and Rec Department

19 Second Meeting April 24, 2012 IndicatorTarget(s) Tree Canopy Replace at least one tree for every three public trees lost to damage, decline or disease. Source: Parks and Rec Department

20 Second Meeting April 24, 2012 IndicatorTarget(s) Urban Gardens Increase by 1.75 acres food producing community gardens in the city limits by 2015, using 2012 as baseline. Source: Parks and Rec Department; Community CROPS

21 Second Meeting April 24, 2012 IndicatorTarget(s) Soil Conservation & Erosion Prevention Continue to require soil conservation and erosion prevention Best Management Practices (BMPs) in all construction and development that is over an acre or is a common plan of development. Source: Department of Public Works; Building and Safety; Planning

22 Second Meeting April 24, 2012 IndicatorTarget(s) Flood Plains & Wetlands Maintain “No Adverse Impact” flood plain policy within the New Growth Area. No net loss of saline wetlands immediately and preservation of up to half of remaining acres by 2022. Source: Departments of Parks and Rec; Public Works; Building and Safety

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