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City staff update: SolSmart review, EV grant submissions, smart meters and active-transport draft
Summary
City staff told the Farmers Branch Sustainability Committee they are pursuing SolSmart designation, applying for state grants for electric vehicles and trails, updating the greenhouse-gas inventory, and preparing to launch smart-meter customer tools once meter installs complete.
City staff provided a status update to the Farmers Branch Sustainability Committee covering SolSmart ordinance changes, grant applications, a greenhouse-gas inventory update, an active-transportation plan draft and a near-term smart-meter customer rollout.
Alex, a city staff member who presented the update, said changes to the city ordinance have been drafted to meet SolSmart gold-level prerequisites and are under legal review; after legal review the changes would move through planning-and-zoning and then to city council. He said the city is updating a greenhouse-gas inventory (previous inventory used 2019 data and staff are updating to 2023), and that an active-transportation plan first draft had been returned with many staff comments and…
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