Sustainability Advisory Board Agenda and Packet 2025 05 07

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Cityoj Louisville City Manager's Office required underground parking garages and save surfaces for gardens? Energy Codes can be inserted now as a part of rezoning in a way that won't happen if we wait until later. Refers to OSAB - want specific areas on the map. Where to put specific assets like solar gardens? etc John Cowley - Ward III Watching SAP for 4 years. Nice words, but worried well -sounding words aren't implemented without something specific. We are talking about 10-20 years in the future. Not now. What specific things would we like to see in order to meet these higher -level goals? ie - what about youth activity zone with parks, food courts, game rooms, etc. Build in an acre (or some measure of space) that is specifically focused on this? Learning concept with wildlife and gardens, art classes, makerspace. Might attract a lot of people who want to live in walking distance. How are you going to reduce greenhouse gases? RJ Harrington Ward III Emphasizing and '+1" everything said by Laura, Tamar, John. Lived here 14 years ago when last comprehensive plan started. 450 families participated, many have moved away, but a core group of 20 families requested many of these same things. Sustainability is core to our ability to preserve our biosphere. The fact that we don't have a deep draft but we are going to be adopting it in 3-4 mos is concerning. We are already 3 years late. Remember that Redtail Ridge is now approved without any of these ideals in it. Perhaps to Laura's point, we can push hard to get codes into the other zones. Can we get what we need to do? Yes we can. We can build safe, affordable, comfortable structures with the passive house standards. c. LSAB Discussion and Direction Kristin - Feels LSAB can help with sustainability factors. Sees very tiny green spaces in the current plan. How can we make sure it happens? What percentage of green space should there be in the plan? Expect to see more details in the common themes. Jeff: Ensure balance between being specific (ie mandating a percentage of green space) and flexible. Kristin - Important to ensure we are considering equity and getting more diverse voices involved. Nisa - Really thoughtful comments were submitted by the public - touched on lots of our key themes that we've been talking about. Opportunity to be leaders that other communities look at. We look at other communities too, and see some exciting flagship projects that help us to see what is possible. Can we conceive of and bring a flagship project into the municipality that we can identify with as a community? Need to be practical and implement specifics. Todd - Where did the 6 stated goals in the plan outline come from? If you didn't hear more from us, you would take the 6 goals and infuse those into the plan„ right? The 6 all hit home, remain relevant. But definitely need more specifics than what is given here. 3