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Commission weighs Forever Webster Groves scope and regional climate-planning resources
Summary
Commissioners reviewed the Forever Webster Groves initiative and discussed aligning with regional climate-action resources, consulting support for a climate action plan, and using an existing greenhouse-gas inventory as a baseline for potential municipal emissions targets.
Commissioners spent a substantial portion of the meeting discussing the Forever Webster Groves initiative and whether to pursue a standalone climate action plan or adapt regional resources.
The council liaison said, "I am really interested in having a climate action plan," and noted multiple existing municipal plans (strategic plan, comprehensive plan, stormwater plan) that could inform a targeted, actionable climate document. Commissioners discussed East-West Gateway regional work and consultant options to adapt existing plans without launching an 18-month community-engagement process.
A commissioner confirmed a greenhouse-gas baseline inventory exists on the city's website and suggested measuring municipal emissions as a potential role for the proposed sustainability coordinator. One participant described a climate-action plan as a roadmap with a target and a detailed set of levers to reach that target; commissioners debated whether to wait for the current code-review and zoning updates or to begin parallel planning.
Next steps: commissioners suggested reviewing regional toolkits and the existing greenhouse-gas inventory, and the commission will consider how to align Forever Webster Groves with zoning and code-review work already underway by staff and the consultant.
Quote: "I had a base perimeter web server. We have the baseline ... that's the thing that I flipped around a minute ago" (discussion confirming the inventory is available and will be shared).
