CONNECT with the CityTransitioning to More Sustainable Buildings: Enhanced Green Building Standards for New Buildings
Projected Completion: 2025
Working through the Building Code Update process, the City aims to adopt enhanced green building requirements to provide for healthier homes and buildings, decreased utility costs for residents and businesses and a reduced overall carbon footprint.
Strategic Plan Priority Areas of Focus
This initiative focuses on the following priority areas of the Strategic Plan:
Protect & Enrich Every Neighborhood
Achieves healthier, safer, and more efficient buildings, resulting in long-term energy cost savings, improved indoor air quality and increased climate resilience.
Champion Sustainability
Implements Climate Action Plan Strategy 1 related to building decarbonization.