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San Mateo council backs limited electrification steps, asks staff to study others
Summary
After months of outreach, the San Mateo City Council signaled support for business-as-usual measures and a municipal electrify-first policy and asked staff to study renovation reach codes and commercial performance standards further while declining to accelerate a full appliance mandate now.
San Mateo — The City Council on June 16 received the draft Electrify San Mateo sustainable building strategy and gave staff guidance to include some policy pathways in the final plan while asking for more study on others.
Sustainability analyst Andrea Chow and Rincon Consulting’s Ryan Gardner presented a five-pathway draft that ranged from ‘‘business as usual’’ outreach and incentives to potential requirements for water heaters and furnaces and a municipal electrification-first policy for city buildings. Gardner said building energy represents about 38% of the city’s greenhouse gas emissions and that electrification could reduce emissions while improving indoor air quality.
Chow and Gardner said public engagement produced more than…
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