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Corte Madera’s draft 2026 climate work plan highlights VMT, fleets and municipal inventory
Summary
Town staff proposed carrying over 2025 climate tasks and adding 2026 strategies focused on reducing vehicle miles traveled, completing a municipal fleet electrification plan (technical assistance via MTC) and updating a municipal greenhouse-gas inventory; staff seeks committee priorities and possible subcommittees.
Town staff presented a draft 2026 climate-action work plan at the Nov. 19 Climate Action Committee meeting that carries forward most 2025 items and adds a focus on vehicle-miles-traveled (VMT) reduction, fleet electrification and an overdue municipal emissions inventory.
Phoebe said two 2025 work-plan items are complete and six remain in progress; among continuing items are the EV-acceleration strategy and pursuing panel upgrades to support higher-charging capacity. On fleet electrification, Phoebe said the town is receiving technical assistance through the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and that a fleet-electrification plan is expected by April 2026 to identify vehicle replacements, infrastructure needs and a replacement timeline. “The fleet electrification plan is expected to be completed by April and will include looking at our infrastructure needs for charging as well as available replacements for our fleet and, funding and a timeline for replacement,” she said.
The draft work plan proposes two new strategies. The first is participation in a countywide effort to reduce VMT — the town would assess measures such as joining the Redwood Bikeshare pilot, adding bicycle parking requirements to special-event permits and exploring transportation-demand measures in a commercial-code update. Committee members asked whether VMT measurements include nonresident trips to local shopping centers; Phoebe confirmed VMT is included in the town’s greenhouse-gas inventory and that the Transportation Authority of Marin is building a VMT toolkit to help screen development projects.
The second new item is completion of a municipal greenhouse-gas inventory for town operations. Phoebe said the last municipal inventory was completed in 2018 (for 2015 data); with utility data now available for the new town hall, staff believe an updated municipal inventory will help identify where to prioritize reductions in town operations.
Committee discussion focused on where the committee could assist, including forming subcommittees to pursue discrete priorities (students, tree planting, multifamily charging, VMT measures). The chair asked Phoebe to circulate a summary email of discrete options and staff said they will present a prioritization vote at the December meeting. No formal council-level decisions were made at this session; staff will continue refining analyses and return with recommendations and timelines.
