Committee outlines alternative compliance plan categories and documentation requirements

Aug 6, 2026

Staff presented an ACP flowchart covering exemptions (bankruptcy/receivership), financial hardship, refinancing timelines, condos/historic properties, and district energy; ACPs require a form, narrative, evidence and annual reporting and produce a binding agreement recorded to the property.

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Staff presented a flowchart and draft Alternative Compliance Plan (ACP) process that divides ACP requests into categories—bankruptcy/receivership (temporary 12‑month exemptions), financial hardship (short-term), refinancing/remortgage timing (longer-term), condos/co-ops, designated historic properties, and district thermal energy systems. For many categories the flowchart showed a two-tier approach: short extensions with modest documentation versus long extensions requiring a strategic decarbonization plan.

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