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San Francisco departments outline citywide sustainability agenda to Planning Commission
Summary
City planning, the mayor’s climate office, Department of the Environment, PUC, Port and DPW presented coordinated sustainability programs — from green building rules and a solar rebate to waste diversion, urban forestry and pilot renewable-energy projects — at the Planning Commission on Sept. 25, 2008.
The San Francisco Planning Commission convened a special hearing Sept. 25, 2008, for departments to present the city’s current and planned sustainability work, including the 2004 Climate Action Plan targets, green building requirements and pilot renewable-energy projects.
The presentations laid out why the city is prioritizing sustainability: Wade Crowfoot of the mayor’s office said San Francisco’s 2004 Climate Action Plan set an early target of a 20% reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions below 1990 levels by 2012. He told commissioners, “San Francisco can and should be a model of an urban community that actually took meaningful action on climate change.” That inventory and follow-up work frame the planning and program decisions now…
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