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Tempe advances residential energy equity roadmap; staff seeks council feedback before March approval
Summary
City staff presented a residential energy equity roadmap developed with neighborhood input that focuses on energy efficiency, renewable energy and urban cooling; staff will return for formal approval March 6 and highlighted initial actions for the coming year.
City of Tempe staff on Feb. 24 presented a residential energy equity roadmap developed with neighborhood participants and multiple community partners and asked the council for feedback prior to a formal vote scheduled for March 6.
Andy Escobar, the city’s Energy Equity Coordinator in the Sustainability and Resilience Division, described the roadmap’s purpose as helping residents meet energy‑use and extreme‑heat challenges and said the work ties to Tempe’s 2022 climate action plan update. “We believe it's important that our residents should be able to afford to cool their homes,” Escobar told the council.
Staff said the roadmap was co‑created with resident participants from the Albright/Allegre (transcript: "Allegre"), Escalante and Victory Acres neighborhoods and informed by NASA/ASU heat‑priority scoring that layers socioeconomic and environmental…
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