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Minnesota GreenStep Cities <br />Search <br />Home I About I The 28 best practices I Become a GreenStep City I Model Ordinances I City login I Contact,/Feedback Stay Connected 9) d) <br />The GreenStep 28 best <br />practices <br />• Make planning and tracking easier: download <br />this spreadsheetlhat lists all 168 unique <br />actions for all 28 best practices. <br />An online version (see view -only example) can <br />be shared with, and edited by, multiple staff <br />members, citizens and elected officials. E-mail <br />Amir Nadav, Great Plains Institute, for online <br />access rights. <br />• Cities that implement a minimum number of best <br />practices organized into these five topical areas <br />will be recognized as a GreenStep City. See <br />What's required to be a GreenStep City? <br />• Cities should claim credit for best practices <br />already Implemented. Adding best practices over <br />time will garner additional recognition. <br />• For each best practice, and depending on city <br />category (A, B or C), a city needs to complete one <br />or more actions from a list associated with the <br />best practice. See What category is my city in? <br />Transportation <br />11. Complete Green Streets: Create a OHO n <br />network of multimodal green streets. <br />n <br />72. Mobility Options: Promote active <br />transportation and alternatives to single -occupancy <br />car travel. <br />13. Efficient City Fleets: Implement a city Fleet <br />Investment, operations and maintenance plan. <br />14. Demand -Side Travel Planning: Implement <br />Travel Demand Management and Transit -Oriented <br />Design. <br />Buildings and Lighting <br />1. Efficient Existing Public Buildings <br />Benchmark energy usage, identify savmgs _ <br />opportunities, and work with utilities and qiw <br />others to implement cost-effective energy <br />and sustainability improvements. <br />2. Efficient Existing Private Buildings: Provide <br />incentives for energy, water and sustainability <br />improvements In existing structures. <br />3. New Green Buildings: Construct new buildings to <br />meet or qualify under a green building framework. <br />4. Efficient Outdoor Lighting and Signals: Improve <br />the efficiency of street lights, traffic signals and <br />outdoor public lighting. <br />5. Building Reuse: Create economic and regulatory <br />incentives for redeveloping and repurposing existing <br />buildings before building new. <br />Environmental Management <br />15. Purchasing: Adopt environmentally <br />preferable purchasing policies and rid f. <br />practices. <br />16. Urban Forests: Add city tree and plant coverthat <br />increases community health, wealth and quality of life. <br />17. Efficient Stormwater Management: Minimize the <br />volume of and pollutants in rainwater runoff. <br />18. Parks and Trails: Support active lifestyles and <br />property values by enhancing the city's green <br />Infrastructure. <br />19. Surface Water Quality: Improve local water <br />bodies. <br />20. Efficient Water and Wastewater Facilities: <br />Assess and improve city drinking water and <br />wastewater facilities. <br />21. Septic Systems: Implement an effective <br />management program for decentralized wastewater <br />treatment systems. <br />22. Solid Waste Reduction: Increase waste <br />reduction, reuse and recycling. <br />23. Local Air Quality: Prevent generation of local air <br />contaminants. <br />Minnesota Pollution Control Agency I Contact I Web site policy <br />Land Use <br />6. Comprehensive Plan and k i <br />Implementation: Adopt a Comprehensive".ey <br />Plan and tie regulatory ordinances to it. <br />V.N,Sal. <br />7. Efficient City Growth: Promote financial and <br />environmental sustainability by enabling and <br />encouraging walkable housing and commercial land <br />use. <br />8. Mixed Uses: Develop efficient and healthy land <br />patterns that generate community wealth. <br />9. Efficient Highway -Oriented Development: Adopt <br />commercial development and design standards for <br />highway road corridors. <br />10. Conservation Design: Adopt development <br />ordinances or processes that protect natural systems. <br />Economic and Community <br />Development <br />24. Benchmarks & Community <br />Engagement: Adopt outcome measures <br />for GreenStep and other city <br />sustainability efforts, and engage <br />community members in ongoing education, dialogue, <br />and campaigns. <br />25. Green Business Development: Support <br />expansion of the city's green business sector. <br />26. Renewable Energy: Remove barriers to and <br />encourage installation of renewable energy generation <br />capacity. <br />27. Local Food: Strengthen local food and fiber <br />production and access. <br />28. Business Synergies: Network/cluster businesses <br />to achieve better energy, economic and environmental <br />outcomes. <br />http://greenstep.pca.state.mn.us/bestPractices.cfm 4/30/2013 <br />