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<br />LRCAB GOAL MATRIX <br /> <br />Overall Goal: Bettering the environment, social, and economic welfare of all Louisville residents and businesses through energy efficiency, resource <br />conservation, and localization. <br /> <br />Goal Applies To Impacts <br /> Municipal Commercial Residential Energy Water Social Resources Economy <br />Short term (1-3 years) <br />Establish baseline for Louisville: energy, carbon footprint, current infrastructure D D <br />Identify projected conditions; climate, traffic, demographics D <br />Identify grant resources available for projects. D D D D D D <br />Investigate partnerships with NREL, NIST, NCAR, Cu Denver Urban and Regional D D D D D D <br />Planning Department, CSU Landscape Architecture Department. <br />Review plans/coordinate with Boulder County, surrounding cities D D D D D D <br />Provide guidance for homeowners and businesses to reduce carbon footprint; D D D <br />improve efficiency of HVAC systems, reduce electrical usage, install water <br />onserving plumbing fixtures, use alternative transportation <br />Adopt a "dark skies" ordinance; encourage lighting practices and systems which D D D D <br />minimize light pollution <br />Replace existing streetlights with LED technology, require LED in new installations D D D D <br />Adopt a municipal noise ordinance D D D D <br />Upgrade stoplights to "smart" systems which synchronize lights along major routes, D D D D <br />ontrol signaling <br />Offer incentives for water conservation; sprinkler efficiency, landscaping D D D <br />Require recycling/reuse of resources on all municipal projects; biosolids, mulch, D D D <br />~onstruction materials; encourage on commercial projects <br />Long term (3-20 years) <br />Alter street design to minimize impacts to watershed (storm water discharge) and D D D D <br />maximize recharge <br />Reduce pavement volume, require permeable surfaces; reclaim for plazas, parks D D D <br />Require "green" buildings; green roofs, solar/wind/geothermal energy D D D D D <br />Establish "greenways" that connect residential areas to primary commerce areas D D D D D D <br />and encourage travel by foot and bicycle. Use corridors for alternative energy <br />installations, urban farming, citizen's gathering places, minimize habitat <br />ragmentation. Connect to mass transit. <br />Establish public-private partnerships for energy projects D D D D <br />Develop local renewable energy production: solar, geothermal, wind, biofuels D D D D <br />Require zero waste; minimize recycling, eliminate production of waste D D D D <br />Prohibit highly toxic chemical compounds: pharmaceutical wastes, pesticides, D D D D <br />carcinogens, hormone impacting chemicals in water system <br />Develop a "Better Streets" plan; minimize auto and maximize foot, bike, public D D D D <br />ransit <br /> <br />Reduces automobile use/impacts, provides vibrant public spaces for community interaction, reduces hardscape/heat loading, increases carbon absorption, provided local food sources, increases <br />ability for <br />population to age in place, increases public health, improves water recharge/filtering, restore drainage and watershed patterns <br />