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Waukegan staff present 2024 sustainability report; highlight lead-line replacements, solar growth and brownfield cleanup
Summary
Planning and Zoning staff presented the city’s updated sustainability report, describing achievements including SolSmart designation, municipal electric aggregation with NIMEC, about 650 lead service line replacements to date, a completed brownfield cleanup under an EPA grant, and digital permit savings.
Rachel Canton of the Waukegan Planning and Zoning Department presented the city’s 2024 sustainability report at the Feb. 18 Public Works and Infrastructure Committee meeting, summarizing progress on energy sourcing, lead service-line replacements, solar permitting, brownfield cleanup and transit-access improvements.
Canton said the city adopted a sustainability plan in 2021 and that the Waukegan Green Team — a volunteer group of city staff — is coordinating previously disconnected sustainability efforts. She said the report, available on the city website, incorporates public comments received after a January draft and covers progress in 2024 and prior years.
Highlights presented: - SolSmart designation: Canton said Waukegan earned a SolSmart designation…
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