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LAFCO hears Climate Action Plan implementation update; Department of Environment cites staffing and funding gaps
Summary
San Francisco Department of the Environment told LAFCO commissioners the city’s Climate Action Plan includes 31 strategies and over 170 actions; staff reported 40% of actions on track, 8% delayed and about 50% not yet started, and identified staffing shortages and long‑term funding as obstacles to full implementation.
San Francisco’s Department of the Environment on July presented a progress report to the Local Agency Formation Commission on implementing the city’s Climate Action Plan, saying the plan is “a pathway for the city to reach net 0 emissions by 2040.” Cindy Comfort, the department presenter, told commissioners the plan contains 31 strategies and “over 170 different actions,” and summarized implementation status and recent accomplishments.
Comfort said one fully completed action was the city’s ban on natural gas in new construction (implemented in 2021) and cited early progress on transit projects and the…
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