Sustainability Advisory Board Agenda and Packet 2024 02 21

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Sustainability Advisory Board Minutes January 17, 2024 Page 4 of 8 resolution, trade offs, and compromises on these issues. Josh pointed out that the City will hold many opportunities for public engagement. Each Board member offered specific feedback for the Comprehensive Plan update. Tiffany offered that the current Comprehensive Plan's vision and values lack statements on climate action, climate resiliency, climate preparedness, and climate justice. More specifically, she mentioned such examples as mitigating urban heat islands, planting trees, ensuring resilience of infrastructure, replacing turf with native plants, conserving water, and electrifying everything. She recommended that this should be a lens for viewing the entire updated Comprehensive Plan_ She also recommended that consideration of diversity, equity, and inclusion should be another such lens. In particular, she mentioned a need to reflect on the City's history of displacement of indigenous people and of coal mining. She also advocated for moving away from usage of "small-town character" as this phrase is often viewed as meaning "white". Kevin placed emphasis on diversity, language justice, affordable housing (as well as more generally allowing accessory dwelling units), incentivizing development to meet high sustainability standards, and multimodal transportation, especially safe walking, bicycling, and bus stops. John placed emphasis on reducing the City's carbon footprint in measurable ways, especially in relation to transportation by encouraging electric vehicle adoption through expanded and strategic charging locations. Allison placed emphasis on providing a socioeconomic diversity of housing options in part through mixed -use development and providing electric vehicle charging at multifamily and socioeconomically diverse housing. She also suggested the deployment of local stories of decarbonization as a means to further such efforts.