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water runoff, or providing more affordable housing options. The plan should recognize and highlight how its measures can help achieve multiple sustainability goals. Social equity should be a crosscutting theme in the plan and each measure should be designed so that the benefits will be distributed across the community. Choosing a Plan Local governments should identify the issues they want to address in their plan and then determine wheth- er a climate action plan or a sustainability plan is appropriate. For either type of plan, local governments should start by performing a greenhouse gas emissions inventory for government operations and the com- munity. Some local governments may elect to begin their sustainability efforts with a focused climate action plan, and then in the future, expand its scope to become a sustainability plan. Whereas other local govern- ments might prefer to look at all of the sustainability issues holistically and develop a more comprehensive sustainability plan from the beginning. Local governments may also choose the type of plan that is appro- priate for their community based on the community's resources and priorities. In some jurisdictions taking local action against climate change might be the primarydriver for the plan, however in others, concerns such as poor air quality or a polluted wetlands might be more pressing concerns that could be addressed within the broader context of a sustainability plan. Climate Action Plan Sustainability Plan Goal of plan: • Reduce GHG emissions from goy- • Reduce GHG emissions from government ernment operations and community operations and community • Improve local sustainability around issues such as land use, housing, open space, education, arts, or civic engagement Typical timeframe to • Develop greenhouse gas emissions • Develop sustainability assessment, including a develop the plan: inventory: 3-5 months greenhouse gas emissions inventory: 4-6 months • Develop climate action plan: 4-6 months • Develop sustainability plan: 6-9 months Staff resources • Sustainability coordinator(or similar) • Sustainability coordinator(or similar)plus an required to develop plus an interdepartmental team interdepartmental team plan: • Regular team meetings to • Regular team meetings to develop measures develop measures for plan for plan Level of outreach • Depends on size of the community • Depends on size of the community required: • Moderate level of outreach re- • Broad public outreach using a variety of meth- quired, that can involve multiple ods, such as town hall meetings, neighbor- methods or just a few town hall hood level meetings, and public websites meetings Metrics to measures • GHG emissions • GHG emissions implementation success: • Other sustainability indicators, i.e. tree canopy. air quality, sewer overflows 9