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Omaha City Council adopts Climate Action and Resilience Plan into master plan after heated debate
Summary
After hours of debate over costs, mandates and implementation, the Omaha City Council voted to adopt an amendment adding the Omaha Climate Action and Resilience Plan to the city’s master plan. Supporters called it a framework; critics warned it could obligate future rules without fiscal detail.
The Omaha City Council voted to adopt an amendment placing the Omaha Climate Action and Resilience Plan into the city’s master plan after extended debate over costs, mandates and the plan’s binding language.
Councilman Harding opened the substantive debate with a detailed critique, urging the council to delay action so members and staff could ‘‘carefully edit this to create a meaningful plan to implement.’’ He pointed to multiple items he said could obligate the city fiscally or operationally, singling out measures on electric-vehicle infrastructure, building-code updates and a proposed citywide curbside compost program as items that required independent fiscal review.
Harding said the report’s transportation section sets ambitious EV targets —…
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