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To coordinate the planning process for Baltimore's sustainability plan, Mayor Sheila Dixon created an <br /> Office of Sustainability within the Department of City Planning. The City moved four staff members from <br /> the Department of City Planning and the Office of the Environment into the Office of Sustainability, and <br /> designated one project manager to coordinate the planning process full-time and one manager to over- <br /> see the planning process part-time. <br /> Demonstrating her commitment to the sustainability plan, the mayor asked all City departments to dedi- <br /> cate staff resources to support the planning process. Since the Office of Sustainability was placed within <br /> the Department of City Planning, they were able to work closely with the City Planning staff and to lever- <br /> age their expertise and their ties to local community and advocacy organizations. <br /> Baltimore began the planning process in summer 2008 and the City Council approved the <br /> Baltimore Sustainability Plan in March 2009. <br /> 6. FIVE MILESTONES FOR SUSTAINABILITY <br /> 6.1 MILESTONE ONE: CONDUCT A SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT <br /> Milestone Purpose:To start the planning process with a baseline understanding of the major sustain- <br /> ability challenges in a jurisdiction in order to identify the key issues to be addressed in the plan. <br /> Milestone Description:The sustainability assessment involves inventorying the existing measures that <br /> have been implemented, defining a set of sustainability indicators, gathering data for those indicators, and <br /> developing a sustainability assessment report. This process will help to identify the major sustainability <br /> challenges in the jurisdiction and to understand the measures that have already been taken to address <br /> these challenges.The assessment includes developing a greenhouse gas emissions inventory, along with <br /> analyzing data for key indicators related to infrastructure, land use,water and air quality, waste, economics, <br /> natural resources, and public health.This assessment should be summarized in a sustainability assessment <br /> report, which will define the key issues and challenges to be addressed in the sustainability plan. <br /> -' its <br /> +eftg �' 4 <br /> z. .., i i <br /> f <br /> + � ir <br /> :00.000000000.00.00 <br /> ys 43�R <br /> tool, � t <br /> WE Iy <br /> ':4�aA <br /> OS a <br /> XOP <br /> e 155 1 . : <br /> .,,,e.,.:0\:::,- r <br /> =a <br /> �"'F�� � �: � y, ,�i- fL <br />