FW: REMINDER: Sustainable DC Joint Working Group Meeting TOMORROW (2/8)
Duer-Balkind, Marshall (DDOE)
Dear Members of the Built Environment Working Group.
I hope that we will see many of you at the Sustainable DC Joint Working Group meeting tonight at 6:30-8:30pm at UDC. I have attached the agenda for the meeting and copied the invite and directions below. If you have not yet confirmed your attendance, please do so here!
Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey last Friday and over the weekend! 55 people voted in the poll (which is more people that we’ve had at any meeting since the kick-off meeting). I have attached the full results of the survey. These will be presented to all working groups tonight, and all attendees will have the opportunity to vote for 20 goals/actions across all nine working groups. For easy reading, here are the top 25 recommendations:
Built Environment Working Group Top 25 Goals and Actions
1. Improve energy efficiency, especially in existing buildings (GOAL)
2. Rehab low-income housing to be green and healthy (ACTION)
3. Create financial products that align public and private sectors to incentivize private capital and developers to enter underserved markets and raise the sustainability bar (GOAL)
4. Reevaluate zoning for higher density, fewer parking spaces required, and higher building heights (GOAL)
5. Diversion of 35% of all construction and demolition waste; eventual targets of 50% and then 90% (GOAL)
6. Make energy performance data transparent and accessible for all buildings (GOAL)
7. Incentivize & eventually mandate retrofits of poorest performing buildings
8. ACTION: Implement performance-based energy codes for new construction and major renovations (ACTION)
9. All Roofs Green or Cool roofs by 2035 (GOAL)
10. Achieve a 40% tree canopy (GOAL)
11. Reduce Water Use and Increase On-Site Energy production with long-term goal of water and energy neutrality (GOAL)
12. Achieve 250 Certified Passive Homes in the District by 2016, and 500 by 2020 (through new construction or retrofit) & Achieve 100 Homes built to meet the standards of the Living Building Challenge by 2016, and 200 by 2020 (GOAL)
13. Transform property tax into a value capture user fee by reducing tax on buildings and increasing tax on land (ACTION)
14. Relieve pressure on the water infrastructure by improving stormwater management (GOAL)
15. Remove split incentives between landlords and tenants that block investment in energy efficiency (ACTION)
16. GOAL: Create neighborhoods with a balance of uses within walkable distances (GOAL)
17. Require sharing of energy performance at point of sale for residential sector (including single family) (ACTION)
18. Make solar thermal use widespread à most buildings can meet all their hot water needs with solar thermal (ACTION)
19. Make all new construction carbon neutral by 2030 (GOAL)
20. Require public disclosure of energy performance for all buildings >10,000 sq. ft. (current law applies to all buildings >50,000 sq. ft., phased-in by 2014) (ACTION)
21. Simplify license agreements, land use codes, and zoning codes to promote use of vacant lots on a temporary basis for community gardens, as well as other temporary uses, such as art installations, short term retail businesses (ACTION)
22. Encourage utilities at all levels to adopt sustainable practices, designs and systems (GOAL)
23. Develop Wi-Fi infrastructure as a public equity amenity (GOAL)
24. Allow sub-metering in residential sector (ACTION)
25. ACTION: Mandate energy audits of all buildings, with public posting of results in commercial and multifamily residential buildings
Thank you again for all the hard work you have put into the process thus far.
Best,
Marshall Duer-Balkind
Program Associate
Office of Policy and Sustainability
District Department of the Environment
Government of the District of Columbia
1200 First St. NE
Washington, DC 20002
202-671-3042 -- Direct
202-669-3936 -- Mobile
From: Future, Sustainable
(DDOE)
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 2:02 PM
To: Future, Sustainable (DDOE)
Cc: Guilbeault, Dan (DDOE); Cidlowski, Laine (OP); Shane, Brendan (DDOE)
Subject: REMINDER: Sustainable DC Joint Working Group Meeting TOMORROW
(2/8)
Dear Sustainable DC Stakeholder,
Just a quick reminder that the Sustainable DC Joint Working Group Meeting is TOMORROW, Wednesday, February 8th, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm in the Performing Arts Center of the University of the District of Columbia (Building 46 East at Connecticut Avenue NW and Windom Place NW - please see map below). If you have not yet confirmed your attendance, please do so here.
Please note that there is a chance of snow showers tomorrow evening. In the event that UDC cancels classes tomorrow evening, the working group meeting will also be postponed to another date (TBA soon). If the event is canceled, we will send out an email and post an update on the calendar tab of the Sustainable DC web site. Should you have any questions, please also feel free to contact us at sustainab...@dc.gov.
See you tomorrow!
-The Sustainable DC Planning Team
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