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12/14/2010 - Energy and Environment Advisory CommissionV. OLD BUSINESS A. Communications Update AGENDA ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT ADVISORY COMMISSION MEETING TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2010 7:00 P.M. CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS / EAGAN CITY HALL I. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND ROLL CALL II. AGENDA ADOPTION III. APPROVAL OF MINUTES IV. VISITORS TO BE HEARD VI. NEW BUSINESS A. Green Step Cities Report B. Presentation by Tom Colbert, Public Works Director VII. STAFF / COMMISSIONER REPORT A. Lead Non - Attainment Finding at Gopher Resource B. Community Survey Results C. Dakota Valley Recycling Green Team and Business Audit Grant Proposal D. Geothermal Tour and Celebration at the Eagan Civic Arena E. January 18, 2001 EEAC Workshop VIII. ROUNDTABLE IX. ADJOURNMENT Auxiliary aids for persons with disabilities will be provided upon advance notice of at least 96 hours. If a notice of less than 96 hours is received, the City of Eagan will attempt to provide such aid THE ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT ADVISORY COMMISSION (EEAC) FROM: DIANNE MILLER, ASSISTANT TO CITY ADMINISTRATOR DATE: DECEMBER 9, 2010 SUBJECT: ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT ADVISORY COMMISSION MEETING / DECEMBER 14, 2010 TO: City of Eap MeMo A meeting of the Energy and Environment Advisory Commission (EEAC) will take place on Tuesday, December 14, 2010, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers. To ensure that a quorum is present, please contact Mary O'Brien at 651- 675 -5005 if you are unable to attend. I. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND ROLL CALL II ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA The agenda, as presented or modified, is in order for adoption by the Commission. III. APPROVAL OF NIINUTES The minutes of the October 12, 2010 EEAC meeting are enclosed on pages 6 — 8. These minutes, pending any modifications, are in order for adoption by the Commission. IV. VISITORS TO BE HEARD The Eagan City Council and its Commissions set aside up to ten minutes at the beginning of public meetings to permit visitors to address items of interest that are not addressed on the regular agenda. Items that will take more than ten minutes or that require specific action can be scheduled for a future meeting agenda. V. OLD BUSINESS A. Communications Update — Per the request of the Commission at the August EEAC meeting, a standing agenda item has been added to announce and discuss communication initiatives within the City addressing issues pertinent to the EEAC. An article appeared in the September /October 2010 edition of the Experience Eagan Newsletter focusing on the efforts of the EEAC. It is anticipated that an article could appear in a future Experience Eagan or Eagan Business News regarding the Commission and City's efforts in the GreenStep Cities Program. VI. NEW BUSINESS A. Green Step Cities Report the past several months, a subcommittee of the Commission —made up of Commissioners Ainir Nadav, Jeff LeClair, and Wade Olson —has been working to prepare the GreenStep Cities report, which is enclosed on pages 9 – 99. The report begins with a narrative summarizing the best practice requirements that the City has and has not completed. Following the written report is a comprehensive spreadsheet that summarizes all of Eagan's efforts to date pertaining to the best practice requirements. Assistance on the GreenStep report was provided by a group of students from the University of Minnesota's Sustainability Capstone course. The students provided a draft report in late November, and the subcommittee and staff worked to refine the necessary spreadsheets and written report for presentation to the Commission. The EEAC subcommittee is prepared to present the report to the Commission as a whole at the December 14 meeting. The University of Minnesota students who worked on the project are in class on Tuesday evenings and, thus, not able to be in attendance. Members of the Eagan Advisory Planning Commission (APC) and Advisory Parks and Recreation Commission (APrC) have been invited to attend the presentation of the GreenStep Cities report, as much of the content pertains to the City's efforts in the areas of land use, parks, community planning, etc. The Commission is welcome to discuss the report and consider next steps for the Commission in terms of recommendations to the City Council based on the fmdings presented in the GreenStep report. As a reminder, the Commission has scheduled a workshop on January 18, 2011, which could be an opportunity for the Commission to dialogue about the specific GreenStep recommendations that could be a part of the EEAC's 2011 -2012 proposed work program. A special thanks is extended to Commissioners Nadav, LeClair and Olson for their extraordinary efforts and work on behalf of the Commission to complete the enclosed GreenStep Cities report. B. Presentation by Tom Colbert, Public Works Director — Per the request of the Commission, and in accordance with your annual work plan, a department director and appropriate staff will be invited to each of the EEAC monthly meetings to give an overview on their respective department's operations and the sustainability efforts currently underway. At the specific request of the Commission at the October EEAC meeting, Tom Colbert, Eagan's Public Works Director, will speak to the Commission about the Public Works Department, which includes Engineering, Water Resources, Transportation Operations, and Utilities. At the request of the Commission, Mr. Colbert's presentation will include information about the City's trail planning, transportation systems, street lighting, and efforts being taken with regard to rain gardens. VII. STAFF / COMMISSIONER REPORT A. Lead Non - Attainment Finding at Gopher Resource —In late November, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) declared that a portion of Eagan (see map enclosed on page 100) is among sixteen areas in the nation identified as having too much lead in the air. Since November, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) and the Minnesota Department of Health have reassured the community that the MPCA and Gopher Resource are taking the appropriate steps to bring Gopher Resource in compliance with the new National Ambient Air Quality Standards (see Eagan website release and letter from the MN Department of Health enclosed on pages 101 – 103). Commissioner Kari Palmer, who works for the MPCA, has offered to provide the Commission with a brief overview of the issue of lead non - attainment, and the response of the MPCA to date. B. Community Survey Results — It is the practice of the City to conduct a community survey on a bi- annual basis. The survey is administered by Dr. Bill Morris of Decision Resources to approximately 400 residents, representing every precinct of the community. The 2010 survey results were overwhelmingly positive across all areas of questioning. For the Commission's infoimation, enclosed on pages 104 – 105 are the survey results for questions pertaining to recycling, energy, and the environment. To view Dr. Morris' presentation to the City Council, which includes a summary of the overall survey results, go to: http:// eagan.granicus.com /MediaPlayer.php ?publish id =99 C. Dakota Valley Recycling Green Team and Business Audit Grant Proposal — For the Commission's information, Dakota Valley Recycling (DVR) has submitted a grant request to Dakota County seeking funds to focus on a new, two -step recycling education program for local businesses: 1) a green team workshop, and 2) a sustainability audit program. Enclosed on pages 106 – 108 is a copy of the grant proposal. DVR will be notified by the end of December 2010 whether they were successful in obtaining the grant. These programs would meet best practice requirements of the GreenStep Cities program. D. Geothermal Tour and Celebration at the Eagan Civic Arena —On Saturday, December 11, beginning at 4:30 p.m., tours will be given of the newly installed geothermal system at the Civic Arena (across the street from City Hall). All Commissioners should have received both a mailed and electronic invitation to attend the event. The formal ceremony will begin at 5 p.m. This event takes place prior to the December 14 EEAC meeting, but is being included in this packet as a recognition of the event having taken place. E. January 18, 2001 EEAC Workshop — At the request of Chair Goff, a workshop of the EEAC has been scheduled for January 18, 2011 from 6:30 -8 p.m. in Conference Room 2A &B at Eagan City Hall. The purpose of the workshop is to review and discuss recommendations pertaining to the GreenStep Cities program, and to begin formulating proposed Commission work plans /goals for 2010 -2011 to be presented to the City Council in early 2011. VIII. ROUNDTABLE The Roundtable is scheduled as an opportunity for Commissioners to ask questions, make requests for future agenda items, or provide informative updates to the Commission pertaining to energy and environment initiatives. IX. ADJOURNMENT /s/Dianne E. Miller Assistant to City Administrator 5 MINUTES OF THE EAGAN ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT ADVISORY COMMISSION MEETING OCTOBER 12, 2010 A regular meeting of the Eagan Energy and Environment Advisory Commission was held on Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. Those present were Bruce Goff, Jeff LeClair, Salman Mitha, Amir Nadav, Wade Olsen and Kari Palmer. Absent was James Casper. Also present was Assistant to the City Administrator Miller. AGENDA Palmer made a motion to approve the agenda as presented. Mitha seconded the motion. All members voted in favor. APPROVAL OF MINUTES Palmer made a motion to approve the minutes of the August 9, 2010 regular meeting of the Energy and Environment Commission as presented. Olsen seconded the motion. All members voted in favor. VISITORS TO BE HEARD There were no visitors to be heard. COMMUNICATIONS UPDATE Miller stated per the request of the Commission, a communications update has been added as a standing agenda item to announce and discuss communication initiatives within the City addressing issues pertaining to the EEAC. Miller noted an article had appeared in the September /October 2010 edition of the Experience Eagan Newsletter focusing on the efforts of the EEAC. The Commission discussed initiatives to further communicate to the Eagan community. GREENSTEP CITIES PROGRAM Chair Goff introduced the item giving background on a subcommittee that was formed to partner with students from a Sustainability Capstone Course through the University of Minnesota in support of the City of Eagan's participation in the Minnesota GreenStep Cities Program. LeClair, an EEAC member of the subcommittee, gave background on the GreenStep Cities Program and introduced a Capstone student who was present and is working with the subcommittee on the program. LeClair discussed the GreenStep Cities' best practice requirements that the City of ID Energy and Environment Commission October 12, 2010 Page 2 of 3 Eagan will need to meet, along with methods the City has already fulfilled toward meeting the requirements. PRESENTATION BY PARKS AND RECREATION DIRECTOR JULI SEYDELL JOHNSON AND BUILDING MAINTENANCE ENGINEER MIKE SIPPER Miller introduced the item stating, per the request of the Commission, Parks and Recreation Director Johnson and Building Maintenance Engineer Sipper were invited to give an overview of the Parks and Recreation department's operations and sustainability efforts. Director Johnson gave an overview of the operations of the Parks and Recreation Department and the sustainable initiatives connected to each of the divisions within the department. Building Maintenance Engineer Sipper discussed the allocation of federal stimulus monies used for energy conservation, building lighting improvements and water conservation efforts. Sipper's presentation also included cost and energy savings the City is realizing across its facilities. CLEAN ENERGY RESOURCE TEAMS (CERTS) REBATE PROGRAM FOR PROGRAMMABLE THERMOSTATS Commission Nadav shared information with the Commission and gave a brief overview of the Clean Energy Resource Teams (CERTS) programmable thermostat rebate program. ARGOSY SUSTAINABILITY CONFERENCE Miller introduced the item noting Argosy University will be hosting their second annual sustainability conference at the Eagan Community Center on May 6 and 7, 2011. Miller also stated that the City, as a partner in the past, has provided a welcome to the conference along with an overview of sustainable efforts underway in the City. Miller stated she will share additional information to the EEAC as it becomes available. SIERRA CLUB'S GREENING DAKOTA COUNTY REPORT Miller stated a report from the Sierra Club entitled, "Greening Dakota County Cities: Local Efforts to Save Energy and Cut Costs in 2009 - 2010" was enclosed in the packet for the Commission's information. ROUNDTABLE The Commission suggested having a presentation by the Public Works Department at a future meeting to discuss the City's trail system and street lighting. Energy and Environment Commission October 12, 2010 Page 3 of 3 ADJOURNMENT Upon motion by LeClair, seconded by Olsen, the meeting adjourned at 8:07 p.m. All members voted in favor. DATE SECRETARY 8 Minnesota Green Step Cit 0 a Jeff LeClair, Amir Nadav, Wade Olsen Eagan Energy & Environment Advisory Commission With Assistance Provided by: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TABLE OF CONTENTS Page I. Acknowledgments 3 II. Executive Summary 4 III. Background 5 IV. GreenStep Cities Program Overview 6 V. Eagan GreenStep Cities Assessment T VI. Overview of Best Practices 10 VII. Appendices 48 Page 12 Acknowledgements 11 Page 3 We wish to thank the many people who contributed to this report. Many thanks to Eagan Mayor Mike Maguire and City Council Members Paul Bakken, Cyndee Fields, Gary Hansen and Meg Tilley for their vision and leadership in creating the Energy & Environment Advisory Commission. Their supportive feedback and approval of both Eagan's participation in GreenStep Cities and this partnership with the University of Minnesota have made this report possible. Our deepest gratitude goes out to Dianne Miller, Assistant to the City Administrator, for her relentless patience, research, support and coordination; and to all the city staff members who provided valuable and timely input. We thank the University of Minnesota course instructors State Senator Ellen Anderson and Dave Wanberg for kindly incorporating this project into their capstone course on sustainable communities. Many thanks to the students Caitlin Cardinal, Peter Kalscheur, Mary Scott, and Jessica Vanella for their research and work products that contributed to this report. Finally, we thank the Energy & Environment Advisory Commission members for their support and hard work. We look forward to engaging with you on the next steps in crafting and realizing the vision of sustainability for Eagan. Category Best Practices Available Best Practices Completed Best Practices Required (for Step 3 recognition) Additional BPs Necessary Buildings & Lighting 1 -5 1, 1, 2 4, 5 1 + one other None Land Use 6 -10 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 6 + one other None Transportation 11 -14 12, 13 11, 12 11 Environmental Management 15 -23 17, 18, 21, 23 15, 16, 17 + one other 15, 16 Economic & Community Development 24 -28 25, 27 24, 25 + one other 24 Total number of BPs 28 18 13 + 3 floating 4 Executive Summary Pag 4 Minnesota GreenStep Cities is a new challenge, recognition and assistance program offered by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and a host of partners to help cities meet their sustainability goals. In August 2010, the Eagan City Council adopted a resolution to participate in this program, and authorized a capstone project between the Energy & Environment Advisory Commission and the University of Minnesota to assess Eagan's actions relative to the 28 programmatic best practices. GreenStep Cities is a voluntary program with no fees to participate. The City of Eagan has made considerable progress in the GreenStep Cities program. Based on actions it has already completed, Eagan would currently qualify as a "Step Two City." The table below summarizes the requirements to achieve the highest level of recognition under the program, "Step Three City," and Eagan's progress to date. The city has completed 18 best practices, but needs to complete additional actions to complete the required best practices. Eagan has also completed several best practices beyond the scope of program requirements. This table represents the subcommittee and city staffs best assessment of Eagan's progress. The GreenStep Cities Steering Committee may review and confirm cities' completed best practices and subsequently revise these numbers. As the Eagan Energy & Environment Advisory Commission reviews this report, it may choose to consider the following questions, among others: ® Should Eagan aim to achieve "Step Three" recognition? 0 If so, which actions in the remaining required best practices should the city implement? o Should Eagan consider pursuing any of the optional best practices? o Should Eagan consider pursuing any additional actions among the best practices it has already completed? The following report provides background on the GreenStep Cities program, Eagan's participation, and an assessment of Eagan's progress toward completion of the best practices. Background Page 5 In their goals for 2009 and 2010, the Eagan City Council articulated a commitment to environmental sustainability and energy efficiency. The biennium goals adopted on March 3, 2009 included the following: "Exemplify a broad -based and comprehensive commitment to environmental sustainability and energy efficiency by adopting conservation and alternative energy strategies pursuing the use of local, non - polluting, renewable, and recycled resources, while encouraging residents and businesses to do likewise." In the spring of 2010, the City Council created the Eagan Energy & Environment Advisory Commission (EEAC). Comprised of seven community members, this Commission holds public meetings every other month. The EEAC's value statements for 2010 - 2011 (Appendix A) include recommending sustainability initiatives centered on the concepts of reduction, protection, renewal, and communication. The Commission also adopted a GreenStep City Goal: "To have the City of Eagan named as a GreenStep City Program participant and utilize the EEAC to review and identify how the 28 best practices identified under the program are met in Eagan within the areas of Buildings & Lighting, Land Use, Transportation, Environmental Management, Economic /Community Development." In their August meeting, the EEAC approved a proposal to work with a group of students enrolled in the University of Minnesota's Sustainable Communities capstone course to help inventory and assess Eagan's progress with respect to the GreenStep Cities best practices. On August 17, 2010 the Eagan City Council adopted a resolution to participate in the GreenStep Cities program and approved the project with the University of Minnesota (Appendix C). This report represents the culmination of the EEAC subcommittee and city staff's work with the University of Minnesota students. /3 GreenStep Cities Program Overview Minnesota GreenStep Cities is a voluntary challenge, assistance and recognition program to help cities achieve their sustainability goals through implementation of 28 best practices. Each best practice can be implemented by completing one or more specific actions from a list of four to eight actions. These actions are tailored to all Minnesota cities, focus on cost savings and energy use reduction, and encourage innovation. GreenStep Cities recognizes cities based on their progress through the program and their achievements. The follow levels of recognition exist: Recognition Steps Needed to Implement o Build community knowledge and interest Step One GreenStep City o Approve a city council resolution to work toward GreenStep Cities recognition o Register and post initial information on the GreenStep Cities Website o Get organized to begin work on Step Two GreenStep City implementing best practices. o Implement half of required best practices (8 for Eagan) Step Three GreenStep City o Implement full suite of required and floating best practices (16 for Eagan) Additional levels of recognition are scheduled for development in 2011 and thereafter to challenge and recognize greater sustainability achievements. Page ( The concept for GreenStep Cities arose during the fall of 2007 when Minnesota's Clean Energy Resource Teams (CERTs) held regional listening sessions around the state to discuss community -based energy opportunities and the state's Next Generation Energy Act of 2007. The idea was raised of creating a sustainable cities program that would challenge, assist and recognize cities that were "green stars." This idea was taken up by the 2008 Legislature, which directed the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, the Office of Energy Security and CERTs to recommend actions cities could take to help meet the state's greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals. Representatives from dozens of cities, non - profits, and other organizations provided input into the 2009 report to the legislature, which outlined what has been developed as the Minnesota GreenStep Cities program. More information about GreenStep Cities is available on the website: http: / /mngreenstep.org /1/ Eagan GreenStep Cities Assessment `s 1 Page 17 GreenStep Cities is a free, voluntary challenge, recognition and assistance program. As such, no penalties or fees exist and the city is under no binding obligation to implement or maintain these best practices. As a Category A city, Eagan is required to complete a total of 8 best practices to claim Step Two status and 16 best practices to claim Step Three GreenStep City status. These requirements must be met by implementing best practices in the following categories: Buildings & Lighting, Land Use, Transportation, Environmental Management and Economic & Community Development. As the table below indicates, each category contains several required and optional best practices. To complete a best practice, a city must implement one or more specific actions from a list of several options. As a Category A city, Eagan must complete the following number of best practices in each category: two in buildings & lighting, two in land use, two in transportation, four in environmental management, and three in economic & community development. Within each category, some specific best practices are required while others can be selected by the city. In addition, a Category A city must also complete three "floating" best practices, which can be in any category. The table below also summarizes the results of our assessment. It reveals that Eagan has completed a Large majority of the best practices required for Step Three recognition. To receive this level of recognition, Eagan would need to complete the following best practices. • Complete Green Streets • Environmentally Preferable Purchasing • Urban Forests • Benchmarks & Community Engagement The EEAC may also consider implementing actions from incomplete optional best practices, or additional actions from completed best practices that would further the city's sustainability goals. The following table represents a more comprehensive view of the status of best practices for the city of Eagan. GreenStep Required BP Surw maryy Buildings & Lighting BPs Required /Complet 1 Efficient Existing Public Buildings 2 Efficient Existing Private Buildings 3 New Green Buildings Efficient Building & Street Lighting and Signals 5 Building Reuse Required Complete (2) Complete Not complete Complete Complete Ltr . . r :Complete Complete Complete Complete Land Use Comprehensive Planning and Implementation I-Iigher Density Efficient and Healthy Development Patterns Efficient Highway- Oriented. Development 10 Conservation Design BPS Required /Completed 11 Complete Green Streets 25 Gree Business .Devel n: pment 26 Renewable Energy "27 bra Lout F ood 28 Business Synergies Total BPs Required (Mcluli Required 13 Efficient City Fleets 18 Environmental '@ianagement Demand' Side Travel Plannin 15 Lnvir PurcLasiug 16 ' Urban Forests 17 Efficient Stormwater Management Green Infrastructure, 19 Surfacc Water Quality 20: Efficient Water and Wastewater :Facilities 21 Septic Systems 22 Solidi Waste Reduction 23 Local Air Quality Required Required Required Required Coznplete. Complete Not complete Not complete -need actions '1 & 8 Not complete - -need action 3 or 5 • Complete • . Complete • Not complete—need action 2 or 3 Not Complete- -need action 1 Coinplete Not Complete Complete Ps Required /(:Oratltleted 24 Benchmarks & Community Engagement Floating BPs (additional to rug u i z ed Required Economic & Community mi Development Required 3 Not complete —need action 1 Page 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Complete Not complete Complete Not complete Complete Not complete 3 /7 Page 19 The remainder of this report assesses Eagan's actions to date and implementation status for each of the Minnesota GreenStep Cities best practices. For incomplete best practices, we have identified in bold recommendations for additional actions that would be needed to fulfill the remaining best practices for "Step Three City" recognition. Overview of Best Practices Page 110 (This is our best understanding of Eagan's progress toward completing the best practices. All best practices are subject to final review and confirmation by the GreenStep Cities Steering Committee. Additional information on actions that are in progress is available on the comprehensive spreadsheet.) Buildings and Lighting (2 Best Practices Required) STATUS FOR EAGAN: COMPLE1E Eagan has completed enough actions for this to count as TWO best practices Page 111 Best Practice #1: Efficient Existing Public Building (REQUIRED) Work with utilities and others to assess and finance energy and sustainability improvements of existing structures. SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENTS: Eagan must implement this best practice by completing at least actions (1) and (2). Eagan must complete at least one additional action among (3) through (7). Completing this additional action allows this best practice to be counted as implementation of two best practices. BEST PRACTICES SUMMARY: 1. Enter baseline information into the Minnesota B3 database and continue entering monthly energy use data from city -owned buildings. 2. Audit (or when cost - effective, re- commission) all city -owned buildings in the bottom third of the B3 energy performance ranking and implement a majority of energy efficiency opportunities that have a payback under 5 years. 3. Complete energy efficiency improvements in at least one city, school or park district building (in addition to buildings addressed in action 2) via retrofit and retro - /re- commissioning, with financing at attractive interest rates under MN's PBEEEP program or related lease - purchase financing, energy performance contracting, or other cost justified program. 4. Participate in other state or utility programs that provide rebates or co- funding for energy efficiency improvements to public buildings. 5. Renovate and operate at least one city -owned building to meet or qualify for a green building standard. 6. Create an internal loan fund for making public building improvements based on an energy or green building standard. 7. Install in at least one public building at least one of the following energy efficiency measures: a. A distributed energy technology: micro - turbine, fuel cell, reciprocating engine. b. A ground- source, closed loop geothermal system where net greenhouse gases are less than those generated by the system being replaced. EAGAN'S ACTIONS: Completed required action 1: Complete an energy assessment of all city owned buildings. Completed required action 2: Complete an energy audit of all buildings in the bottom third of the B3 energy performance ranking and implement the majority of energy efficiency improvements that will payback in under 5 years. Completed additional actions 3 and 7: Eagan was granted a Federal stimulus, which they used to monitor their energy use in their city owned buildings and have implemented energy conserving tactics. In their Civic Arena and in the new Fire Safety Center (opening Spring 2011) there is now a closed. loop geothermal system, which satisfies action #7b. CONTACT: Mike Sipper, City Building Maintenance Engineer /7 Best Practice #2: Efficient Existing Private Buildings (OPTIONAL) Work with utilities and others to assess and finance energy and sustainability improvements of existing structures STATUS FOR EAGAN: COMPLETE SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENTS: Eagan may implement this best practice by completing at least two actions if they choose to implement this best practice. BEST PRACTICE SUMMARY: 1. Create a marketing and outreach program with the local utility and/or the local Community Action Program to promote residential energy use reduction and energy efficiency. 2. Integrate green building information into the building permit process. 3. Develop a (or modify an existing) truth -in- housing inspection program for homes being sold, to include a blower -door test and energy -use rating. 4. Document at least one of the following green building practices, partnering with an assistance provider such as a utility, EnergySmart, MNTAP or ReTAP as appropriate: a: Building energy improvements in businesses. b. Use of Energy Star's Portfolio Manger by businesses. c. The construction of and/or operation of a least three buildings to meet or qualify for a green building standard. 5. Take action to conserve drinking water resources through at least one the following: a. Implement a robust watering ordinance. b. Implement a conservation rate structure. c. Adopt, with modifications as necessary, a model landscaping ordinance to allow for low water -use landscaping. d. Create a rebate or feebate program to promote purchases of WaterSense- and Energy Star - rated appliances. 6. Provide a meaningful and significant incentive to private parties (builders, homeowners, businesses, institutions) who renovate to a green building standard: a. Building permit fee discount b Grant, rebate or tax breaks (e.g., property tax abatement) c. Expedited permit review d. Green building design assistance e. Density bonus 7. Customize a model sustainable building renovation policy and adopt language governing commercial renovation projects that: a. Receive city financial support, and/or b. Require city regulatory approval (conditional use permit, rezoning, PUD status). 8. Arrange for on -bill financing, using either utility or property tax bills, to make home/building sustainability improvements easier and more affordable. EAGAN'S ACTIONS: Buildings and Lighting (2 Best Practices Required) Page 112 Page 113 Completed action 3c: There are four Buildings in Eagan that are LEED Certified: Eagan Place Professional Building (silver), Lebanon Hills Visitor Center (silver), Lockheed Martin (silver), and Allan L. Schuman Corp. Campus Ecolab (gold). Completed actions 5 a, and b: The City of Eagan has a permanent conservation program for outside water usage. This permanent system is in effect throughout the entire outdoor watering season. CONTACT: Jon Hohenstein, Director of Community Development Mike Ridley, City Planner Dianne Miller, Assistant to the City Administrator Dale Schoeppner, Chief Building Official Wayne Schwanz, Utility Superintendent Buildings and Lighting (2 Best Practices Required) Best Practice #3: New Green Buildings (OPTIONAL) Construct new buildings to meet or qualify for a green building standard STATUS FOR EAGAN: NOT COMPLE 1E SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENTS Eagan may implement this best practice by completing at least one public realm action (1) or (2) and at least one private realm action (3) through (6). BEST PRACTICES SUMMARY: 1. Build at least one, or require by ordinance, new city -owned buildings and substantial remodels to meet or qualify for a green building standard. 2. Work with the local school district to ensure that all new schools are built to a green building standard. 3. Customize a model sustainable building policy and adopt language governing new private development projects that: a. Receive city financial support, and/or b. Require city regulatory approval (conditional use permit, rezoning, PUD). 4. Provide a meaningful and significant incentive to private parties (residents, builders, developers) who build to a green building standard: a. Building permit fee discount b. Expedited permit review c. Green building design assistance d. Grant, rebate or tax breaks (e.g., property tax abatement) e. Density bonus 5. Adopt covenant guidelines for common interest communities addressing issues such as stormwater, native vegetation, growing food, clothes lines and renewable energy. 6. Work with local financial institutions to use energy - efficient mortgages for buildings seeking a green building certification. EAGAN'S ACTIONS: Action 1 In Progress: Eagan's new Green Globes certified Fire Administration building will meet this requirement Action 5: Adopt covenant guidelines for common interest communities addressing issues such as stormwater, native vegetation, growing food, clothes lines and renewable energy. CONTACT: Jon Hohenstein, Director of Community Development Mike Ridley, City Planner Page X14 Buildings and Lighting (2 Best Practices Required) Best Practice #4: Efficient Outdoor Lighting and Signals (OPTIONAL) Improve the efficiency of public and private lighting and signals STATUS FOR EAGAN: COMPLETE CONTACTS: Tim Plath, Transportation and Operations Engineer Paul Olson, Superintendent of Parks 03 Page 115 SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENTS: Eagan may implement this best practice by completing at least two actions, including one of actions (5) through (8). BEST PRACTICE SUTMMARY: 1. Require energy efficient, Dark -Sky compliant new or replacement outdoor lighting fixtures on city - owned buildings and facilities. 2. Require all new street lighting and traffic signals to be Dark -Sky compliant, energy efficient lighting technologies 3. Modify any city franchise or other agreement with a utility to facilitate rapid replacement of inefficient street lighting. 4. Synchronize traffic signals so as minimize car idling at intersections yet maintain safe and publicly acceptable vehicle speeds. 5. Install solar powered lighting in a street, parking lot or park project. 6. Work with a utility program to relamp exterior building lighting for at least 30% of city -owned buildings with energy efficient, Dark -Sky compliant lighting. 7. Replace at least 50% of the city's parking lot lighting with Dark -Sky compliant, energy efficient, automatic dimming lighting technologies. 8. Replace at least one -third of the city's existing traffic signals with energy efficient LED or equivalent lighting technologies. EAGAN'S ACTIONS: Completed Action 4: The City, in partnership with Dakota County, has synchronized traffic signals on Pilot Knob Rd, Yankee Doodle Rd and Cliff Rd for directional rush hours. The City also has added two roundabouts and two flashing yellow left turn arrow signals to reduce idling time. Three more flashing yellow arrow signals are planned for 2011. Completed Action 8: All traffic signals in the city have LED lights. STATUS FOR EAGAN: COMPLETh Buildings and Lighting (2 Best Practices Required) Page 116 Best Practice #5: Building Reuse (OPTIONAL) Create economic and regulatory incentives for redeveloping and repurposing existing buildings before building new SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENTS: Eagan may implement this best practice by completing at least one of the following actions. BEST PRACTICE SIONMARY: 1. Develop and adopt an historic preservation ordinance to encourage adaptive reuse, with attention to energy and resource conservation, indoor air quality and other green building practices. 2. For cities with traditional downtown areas, implement the Minnesota Main Street model for commercial revitalization with attention to green building practices. 3. Work with a local school to either add -on space, or to repurpose space into non - school uses, with attention to green building practices. 4. Create /modify a green residential remodeling assistance /financing program to assist homeowners in adding space to their existing homes while retaining historic architectural elements. 5. Adopt development and design standards that facilitate infill and redevelopment, such as developing strip /large format commercial areas into more livable /walkable neighborhoods and gathering places. EAGAN'S ACTIONS: Completed Action 5.• The City's Comprehensive Plan has policies with respect to building 011 existing pedestrian facilities and enhancing and further connecting them as projects and funding permit. The City applies the policy with respect to street improvements and reconstruction in which it considers the installation of appropriate pedestrian facilities - sidewalks or trails - as each project is designed. The City has implemented pedestrian improvements in the Town Centre area and has received a grant to study additional pedestrian connections of this kind in other retail areas through the State's Statewide Health Improvement Program (SHIP). In its major mixed use redevelopment, the City is implementing a transit oriented, walkable design framework through its Cedar Grove Zoning District and Design Standards. The City approved their Community Transportation Trail System Policy on 12- 13 -04. CONTACTS: Jon Hohenstein, Director of Community Development Mike Ridley, City Planner Juli Johnson, Director of Parks and Recreation STATUS FOR EAGAN: COMPLETE Land Use (2 Best practices required) Best Practice #6: Comprehensive Planning and implementation (REQUIRED) Adopt a Comprehensive Plan and tie regulatory ordinances to it Page 117 SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENTS Eagan must implement this best practice by completing action (1) and (2). If Eagan chooses to complete action (5), we may claim credit for implementing a floating best practice. BEST PRACTICES SUMMARY: 1. Adopt/have an adopted comprehensive plan that is less than ten years old (required for Category A cities) OR, Category B and C cities may simply adopt a land use plan that was adopted by a regional entity or the county less than ten years ago. 2. Demonstrate that regulatory ordinances comply with the comprehensive plan including but not limited to having the zoning ordinance explicitly reference the comprehensive plan as the foundational document for decision making. 3. Include requirements in comprehensive plans for intergovernmental coordination dealing with at least six of the following issues: a. Transportation b. Watershed impacts c. Land use d. Economic development e. Housing and foreclosures f. Police g. Fire h. Health i. Sewer and water 4. Include ecologic /transportation provisions in the comprehensive plan that explicitly aim to achieve at least two of the following goals: a. Minimize the fragmentation and development of agricultural, forest, wildlife, and high quality open space lands in and around the city. b. For cities adjacent to undeveloped land, establish a growth area with staging criteria that reflects projected population growth and, if applicable, is subject to an orderly annexation agreement and planned extension of municipal services. c. Establish policies with numerical targets to reduce vehicle miles traveled. 5. Adopt climate protection or energy independence goals and objectives in the comprehensive plan or in a separate policy document, and link these goals to direct implementation recommendations. EAGAN'S ACTIONS: Completed Action 1: The last comprehensive plan was completed in 2008 and adopted on April 6, 2010. Completed Action 2: The zoning ordinances reflect that the Comprehensive Plan is the official guide and long range plan for the city. Completed Action 3: The Comprehensive Plan is the official guide and long range plan for the City). Completed Action 4a: The comprehensive plan includes this policy. (Action 4b is not applicable). Page 1 Action 4 c In Progress: - Eagan needs established policies including numerical targets reflecting the actions currently being taken to reduce miles driven by city fleet vehicles. - Action 5 In Progress: The City has adopted the following sustainability goal, but has not created implementation recommendations directly tied to the goal: "Exemplify a broad-based and comprehensive commitment to environmental sustainability and energy efficiency by adopting conservation and alternative energy strategies pursuing the use of local, non-polluting, renewable, and recycled resources, while encouraging residents and businesses to do likewise." CONTACTS: Jon Hohenstein, Director of Community Development, Mike Ridley, City Planner Land Use (2 Best practices required) Best Practice # 7: Higher density (OPTIONAL) Enable and encourage a higher density of housing or commercial land use STATUS FOR EAGAN: COMPLE SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENTS To implement this best practice, Eagan must complete at least one of the following actions. Page 119 BEST PRACTICES SUMMARY: 1. Limit barriers to higher density housing by including in the city zoning ordinance and zoning map a zoning district that allows: a. Neighborhood single - family density at six units per acre or greater. b. Multi - family housing at a gross density of at least 15 units per acre adjacent to a commercial zoning district or transit node. 2. Encourage higher density housing through at least two of the following strategies: a. Incorporate a flexible lot size /frontage requirement for infill development. b. Use density and floor area ratio (FAR) bonuses in selected residential zoning districts. c. Tie a regulatory standard to comprehensive plan language defming compact city expansion zones that limit low- density development. d. Alio'wing accessory dwelling units by right in selected zoning districts. 3. Encourage a higher intensity of commercial land uses through at least one of the following strategies: a. Include in the city zoning ordinance and zoning map a commercial district with reduced lot sizes and zero - lot -line setbacks, or a FAR minimum between .75 and 1. b. Set targets for the minimum number of employees /acre in different commercial zones. 4. Provide one or more of the following incentives for infill projects, or for life -cycle housing at or near job or retail centers, or for achieving an average net residential density of seven units per acre: a. Building permit fee discount. b. Expedited permit review. c. Grant or tax breaks. d. Other incentives. 5. Modify the city zoning ordinance and zoning map to allow, without variance or rezoning in at least one district, developments that meet the prerequisites for LEED for Neighborhood Development certification. EAGAN'S ACTIONS: Completed Action 1. b.: Eagan has increased the number of units per acre in the Cedar Grove Re- development area anticipating 16+ units per acre and they will be in walking distance of both commercial and transit opportunities. Completed Action 2: Eagan permits flexibility in infill developments and the city's comprehensive plan designates three mixed use special areas. Completed Action 4: Eagan works with the Dakota County Community Development Agency (CDA) to provide a range of lifecycle housing opportunities through CDA funding sources. Examples include numerous senior living facilities. a' 7 CONTACTS: Jon Hohenstein, Director of Community Development Mark Ulfers, CDA Executive Director Kari Gill, CDA Deputy Executive Director of Housing, Finance, and Development Page 120 Land Use (2 Best practices required) Best Practice # 8: Efficient and Healthy Development Patterns (OPTIONAL) Mix Land Uses STATUS FOR EAGAN: COMPLE 1E Page 121 SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENTS: If Eagan chooses to implement this best practice, we must complete at least two of the following actions. BEST PRACTICES SUMMARY: 1. Create a main street program or organize a Minnesota Design Team planning charrette. 2. Locate or lease a government facility that has at least two of these attributes: a. Adjacent to an existing employment or residential center. b. Designed to facilitate and encourage access by walking and biking. c. Accessible by existing regular transit service. 3. Modify a planned unit development - PUD - ordinance to emphasize mixed use development or to limit residential PUDs to areas adjacent to commercial development. 4. Certify a new development as complying with LEED -ND standards, including the mixed -use credits. 5. Create, or modify an existing, downtown zoning district to allow residential and small compatible commercial development, based on the Minnesota Model Ordinances for Sustainable Development. 6. Create, or modify an existing, district to use form -based zoning standards that de- emphasize use - based standards. 7. Create incentives for vertical mixed -use development in appropriate locations (downtown, commercial districts near colleges or universities, historic commercial districts). EAGAN'S ACTIONS: Completed Action 1: The Cedar Grove redevelopment was approved on the basis of the Cedar /13 Study. Completed Action 2: The library and community center are near an existing employment or residential area and are accessible by wallcing or biking. Completed Action 7: Land cost write downs are available in the Cedar Grove Redevelopment District to encourage high density mixed use development. CONTACTS: Jon Hohenstein, Community Development Director Mike Ridley, City Planner 0.7 STATUS FOR EAGAN: COMPLETE Land Use (2 Best practices required) Best Practice # 9: Efficient Highway - Oriented Development (OPTIONAL) Adopt commercial development and design standards for highway road corridors SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENTS Eagan must complete at least one of the following actions if we choose to implement this best practice. BEST PRACTICES SUMMARY: 1. Conduct a visual preference survey with community members and establish design goals for highway corridors. 2. Participate in regional economic development planning with representatives from surrounding townships, cities, the county and business interests to: a. Estimate commercial/industrial needs among all jurisdictions. b. Jointly implement recommendations to stage highway commercial development in order to avoid overbuilding and expensive low- density development. 3. Adopt transportation infrastructure design standards that accomplish at least one of the following: a. Improve the ecologic functions of land adjacent to highway corridors. b. Facilitate clustering of commercial highway development. c. Context- sensitive design. 4. Adopt, with modifications as necessary, at least one of the following corridor management and design model ordinances: a. Model access management overlay b. Highway Commercial District c. Adequate Public Facilities ordinance that stages highway commercial development concurrently with infrastructure expansion. 5. Require decommissioning in development agreements for large format developments should they remain vacant for several years. EAGAN'S ACTIONS: Completed Action #2: City is participating with local businesses, multiple local agencies, two chambers of commerce, and Dakota County to strategically plan for the transportation infrastructure and economic development needs along regional corridors, such as the Robert Street Corridor, for the transport of goods, transit and broadband. CONTACTS: Ruthe Batulis, Northern Dakota County Chamber of Commerce Jon Hohenstein, Community Development Director Page 122 Land Use (2 Best practices required) Best Practice # 10: Conservation Design (OPTIONAL) Adopt development ordinances or processes that protect natural systems STATUS FOR EAGAN: COMPLETE SlUNIMARY OF REQUIREMENTS Complete at least one of the following actions if Eagan chooses to implement this best practice. Page 23 BEST PRACTICES SUMMARY: 1. Conduct a Natural Resource Inventory and Assessment (NRI and NRA) and incorporate protection of priority natural systems or resources through the subdivision or development process, as described in Minnesota's 2009 Model Ordinances for Sustainable Development. 2. For cities outside or on the fringe of metropolitan areas, conduct a cost of public services study for development outside the city grid and adopt development standards or a concurrency ordinance to ensure staged urban growth that protects natural systems. 3. For cities within metropolitan areas, incorporate by policy woodland best management practices into zoning or development review. 4. For cities with undeveloped natural resource areas use, or adopt as policy the use of, a conservation design scorecard as a tool in negotiating development agreements. 5. Develop and fund a conservation easement program, such as a purchase of development rights program, in collaboration with a land trust. EAGAN'S ACTIONS: Completed Action 1: City approved updated Water Quality and Wetland Management Plan on July 17, 2007. Incorporated wetland inventory, mapping, and assessment for purposes of classification. Completed Action 5: The City has partnered with other entities (e.g. Dakota County) to fund conservation easements to preserve land in the Eagan Core Greenway CONTACTS: Eric Macbeth, Water resources Coordinator Juli Seydell Johnson, Director of Parks and Recreation Transportation (2 best practices required) CONTACT: Tim Plath, Transportation and Operations Engineer Page X Best Practice # 11: Complete Green Streets (REQUIRED) Create a network of multimodal green streets STATUS FOR EAGAN: NOT COMPLE 1'E SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENTS: Eagan must implement this best practice by completing action (1) and two additional actions. BEST PRACTICES SUMMARY: 1. Adopt a complete streets policy that addresses street trees and s tormwater, and modify street standards accordingly. 2. Adopt zoning language for a selected area/project that is substantially equivalent to the LEED for Neighborhood Development credits for Walkable Streets or Street Network. 3. Document the installation of trees, other green stormwater infrastructure, and utility renovations as needed (sewer, water, electric, telecommunications) as part of at least one complete street reconstruction project. 4. Identify and remedy non - complete street segments by, for example, adding a bike route /lane or sidewalk. 5. Identify and remedy street - trail gaps (at least one) between city streets and trails/bike trails to better facilitate walking and biking. 6. Implement traffic calming measures in at least one street redevelopment project. EAGAN'S ACTIONS: Action # 1 required: Eagan must prepare a complete green streets policy that is encouraged by Minnesota statute chapter 351, section 52. The policy must address street trees and stormwater, and incorporate appropriate standards to facilitate a transportation system that accommodates multiple modes and users of all ages and abilities. Completed Action #5: Eagan approved Community Transportation Trail System Policy December 13, 2004. Completed Action #6: Eagan has completed the installation of two roundabouts, which are considered traffic calming measures. Eagan has also been installing radio transmitted traffic signals, and is incorporating the use of yellow left turn signals in several locations. Transportation (2 best practices required) Best Practice #12 Mobility options (REQUIRED) Promote active living and alternatives to single- occupancy car travel STATUS FOR EAGAN: COMPLETE SUMNEARY OF REQUIREMENTS Eagan must complete at least two actions. Page X25 BEST PRACTICES SUMMARY: 1. Promote walking, biking and transit use by one or more of the following means: a. Produce /distribute a map(s) and/or signage and/or a web site that shows (by neighborhood if a larger city) key civic /commercial sites, best bike and pedestrian routes, and transit routes and schedules. b. Increase the number of bike facilities, such as racks, bike stations, showers at city offices. c. Add bus infrastructure, such as signage, benches, shelters and real -time arrival data streaming. d. Increase the number of employers who offer qualified transportation fringe benefits instead of only a tax -free parking fringe benefit. e. Launch an Active Living campaign in concert with your local community health board. 2. Launch a Safe Routes to School program with educational, public health and other partners. 3. Prominently identify on the city's web site mobility options for hire: transit services; paratransit/Dial -A -Ride; cab service(s); rental car agency(s). 4. Promote carpooling or ridesharing among community members, city employees, businesses, high schools and institutions of higher education. 5. Launch an eWorkPlace Minnesota campaign, working with business and transportation management organizations, or help bring telemedicine technology to a local health care provider. 6. Accomplish at least one of the following transit/mobility sharing projects, working with other units of local governments as needed: a. Add/expand transit service. b. Launch a car sharing or bike sharing business. EAGAN'S ACTIONS: Completed action 1 a, c, and e: It is fulfilled that action by having easy and assessable maps available through signage along various routes and bicycle trails maps which are provided on the City of Eagan website. The transit routes may also be found via the City of Eagan website and MVTA website. There is an increased bus and transit availability in the City. Examples have included the Cedar Avenue Bus Rapid Transit Corridor, and the new transit station in the Cedar Grove redevelopment area. The City has an active wellness program for employees. The program encourages employees and residents to participate in Healthy Steps, a Dakota County wallcing effort and also provides regular brown bag lunch opportunities to review wellness initiatives, such as retirement planning, stress reduction, caring for elderly parents, weight loss challenges. Completed action 6 a: Cedar Avenue Bus Rapid Transit Corridor, Park and Ride facilities were recently established. The city has interest in continuously working with neighboring communities to expand the existing transit services. CONTACT: Tom Colbert, Public Works Director Tim Plath, Transportation and Operations Engineer Juli Johnson, Director of Parks and Recreation Page 126 Transportation (2 best practices required) Best Practice # 13: Efficient City Streets (Optional) Implement a city fleet investment, operations and maintenance plan STATUS FOR EAGAN: COMPLETE SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENTS: Eagan must complete at least two actions if they choose to implement this best practice. Page (27 BEST PRACTICES SUMIVIARY: 1. Decrease use of city vehicles by means such as trip bundling, video conferencing, carpooling and financial incentives for efficient vehicle use. 2. Right - size the city fleet with the most fuel-efficient vehicles that are of an optimal size /capacity for their intended functions. 3. Document the phase -in of at least three of the following equipment and operational changes in vehicle contracts, for city or local transit fleets, or for school/park board fleets: a. Monthly monitoring and reporting for staff on fuel usage and costs. b. Training for more efficient driving, including anti - idling behavior /rules. c. Maintenance schedules that optimize vehicle life and fuel efficiency. d. Alternative fuel vehicles. e. Charging stations (solar or wind powered) for plug -in hybrid and full electric vehicles. f. Lower - carbon fuels (such as biodiesel, straight vegetable oil) using a life -cycle calculation. g. More fuel-efficient vehicles. h. Car share vehicles owned by a third party to decrease fleet size. i. Bicycles. 4. Phase in bike, foot or horseback police patrols. 5. Document that the local school bus fleet has optimized routes, start times, boundaries, vehicles, bus fuels, and driver actions to decrease fuel use. 6. Participate in Project GreenFleet to retrofit or replace diesel engines, or to install auxiliary power units that reduce truck and bus idling. EAGAN'S ACTIONS: Completed Action 1: Eagan has downsized the type of vehicles used in various fleets. Eagan's first fire response now has more efficient vehicles by replacing the 12MPG Ford Explorers with the 21MPG Ford Escapes. Two hybrid vehicles, the 30 +MPG Ford Fusions, are utilized for administrative purposes to replace the old 20MPG Impalas. Eagan has replaced a street maintenance vehicle with a seasonal worker riding a bike for boulevard maintenance. Automatic Vehicle Locator (AVL) program to increase patrol efficiency during snow emergencies. Completed Action 2: Several vehicles have been downsized in the maintenance fleet, along with the use of two hybrid vehicles. Completed Action 3: Current monthly fuel usage for each City vehicle is monitored and reported. All Eagan employees are subjected to the 'no idling policy'. All unattended vehicle must be shut off. Maintenance is completed per manufacturers' instructions. Two hybrid vehicles are in use. Completed Action 5: ISD 196 in Eagan uses a computerized route optimizer for their school bus fleets to optimize the distances traveled. Three tiers for school starting times are also used to reduce the sizes of Page 128 fleets and buses on the roads. A no idling policy is also set to ensure buses are not running while unintended. CONTACT: Tom Colbert, Public Works Director Tom Streefland, Public Works Department ISD 196 Transportation Division, 651-423-7685 STATUS FOR EAGAN: NOT COMPLEIE Transportation (2 best practices required) Best Practice #14 Demand -Side Travel Planning (OPTIONAL) Use Travel Demand Management and Transit - Oriented Design SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENTS Eagan may implement this best practice by completing at least two actions. Page 129 BEST PRACTICES SUMMARY: 1. In development standards, right -size parking minimum standards and add parking maximums in pedestrian- friendly or transit - served areas. 2. For cities with regular transit service, require or provide incentives for the siting of retail services at transit/density nodes. 3. For cities with regular transit service, require or provide incentives for the siting of higher density housing at transit/density nodes. 4. Incorporate demand -side transportation strategies into development regulations, adopting, with modifications as necessary, at least one of the following from Minnesota's 2009 Model Ordinances for Sustainable Development: a. Travel Demand Management Performance Standard b. Transit - Oriented Development district ordinance 5. Document that a development project certifies under the LEED for Neighborhood Development program and is awarded at least one of the following credits: a. Transportation Demand Management. b. Housing and Jobs Proximity. EAGAN'S ACTIONS: Action 1 Incomplete: The City previously updated its parking minimum standards to reduce numbers by increasing ratios, with appropriate tiers based on the type of development. Some of the larger expanses of pavement in town would not be required today. However, some retailers define their own ratios and will exceed Eagan's requirements. The City does not have parking maximums in pedestrian or transit oriented areas, but it does focus on shared and cross parking opportunities where adjacency and proximity of complementary uses support it. The city has not embraced the 8'/2' x 18' stall standard. While the city has permitted stall size reductions in office and other locations with relatively little parking turnover, it is not as practical in commercial areas with high turnover for a variety of reasons. CONTACT: Jon Hohenstein, Director of Community Development, Mike Ridley, City Planner 37 Environmental Management (4 best practices required) Best Practice # 15 Purchasing (REQUIRED) Adopt an environmentally preferable purchasing policy STATUS FOR EAGAN: NOT COMPLETE SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENTS: Eagan must complete action (1) and at least one additional action Page 30 BEST PRACTICES SUMMARY: 1. Adopt a policy or administrative policy directing that the city purchase only: a. EnergyStar certified equipment and appliances and b. Paper containing at least 30% post - consumer recycled content. 2. Purchase 15% of city government's energy requirements from renewable energy sources. 3. Establish a local purchasing preference and, working with a local business association, develop a list of locally - produced products and suppliers for common purchases. 4. Require purchase of U.S. EPA WaterSense - certified products for all product categories covered by the WaterSense program. 5. Set minimum standards for the percentage of recycled- content material in at least 5 products typically purchased by the city, such as asphalt and roadbed aggregate. 6. Require printing services to be purchased from companies certified by Minnesota Great Printers or by the Sustainable Green Printing Partnership. 7. Lower the environmental footprint of meetings and events in the city through one or more of the following: a. Adopt a policy for meetings and events hosted by city government. b. Adopt a policy for meetings and events taking place on city property, including parks and libraries. c. Distribute educational materials for use at city - supported events such as National Night Out. 8. Specify the use of state and national green standards /guidelines for at least 3 of the following categories of purchasing: a. Electronics, including printers, printer supplies - especially remanufactured cartridges - and printer operation. b. Wood products c. Organic food d. Cleaning products e. Paints, coatings and adhesives f. Carpets g. Furniture h. Paper products EAGAN'S ACTIONS: Action 1 Required: Eagan purchases 30% envirocopy recycled paper. The city can complete this action by adopting a policy to purchase only EnergyStar certified equipment and appliances. Action 8 Recommended: The city already purchases green cleaning products, recycled content carpet in the Municipal Center, and recycled paper products. This action can be completed by specking the use of state and national green standards /guidelines for these products. CONTACTS: Mike Sipper, Building Engineer Maria Petersen, City Clerk Mark Vaughn, Campus Facilities Manager Dianne Miller, Assistant to the City Administrator Kristi Peterson, IT Manager Tim Plath, Transportation and Operations Engineer Page 131 Environmental Management (4 best practices required) Page X 32 Best Practice # 16 Urban forests (REQUIRED) Increase city tree and plant cover STATUS FOR EAGAN: NOT COMPLETE SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENTS: Eagan must complete at least two actions. BEST PRACTICES SUMMARY: 1. Qualify as a Tree City USA. 2. Adopt as policy MN Tree Trusts' Best Practices and use the guidelines in at least one development project to achieve an excellent or exemplary rating. 3. Budget tree installation and maintenance to, within 15 years, achieve the following tree canopy shading for streets, sidewalks and parking lots in the following zoning districts: a. At least 25% for industrial and commercial zoning. b. At least 75% for residential zoning. 4. Maximize tree planting along your main downtown street. 5. Adopt at least one of the following ordinances /policies: a. Adopt a policy of no net loss of specified natural landscapes. b. Adopt an ordinance /policy relating to protection of trees on parcels affected by city planning/regulatory processes. c. Adopt landscaping/nuisance ordinances that promote, rather than create barriers for, native vegetation. EAGAN'S ACTIONS: Completed Action 1: Eagan is certified as a Tree City USA Action 3: Eagan has a green space ordinance, which includes pervious /impervious requirements as well as tree mitigation policies, but no requirements pertaining to canopies per se. The City is likely close to meeting these percentage requirements, but nothing documented at this time. Pictometery technology could be used to analyze our percentage of canopy coverage. Action 5 a or 5 c: Must verb a policy of no net loss of specified natural landscapes —OR- must verb landscaping ordinances promote native vegetation. CONTACTS: Jon Hohenstein, Director of Community Development, Gregg Hove, Forester Environmental Management (4 best practices required) Best Practice # 17 Efficient Stormwater Management (REQUIRED) Minimize the volume of and pollutants in water runoff STATUS FOR EAGAN: COMPLETE SUMMARY OF REQUEREMENTS Eagan must implement this best practice by completing at least one action. CONTACT: Tom Colbert, Public Works Director Page 133 BEST PRACTICES SUMMARY: 1. Complete the Blue Star City stormwater management assessment and achieve a minimum threshold of specific activities detailed in this program. 2. Adopt by ordinance one or more of the following: a. A narrower streets provision that permits construction of 24 -foot roads for public, residential access and subcollector streets (with fewer than 500 average daily trips). b. A 1.5 inch rainfall on -site rainwater infiltration design requirement for construction sites. c. A stormwater runoff volume limit to pre - development volumes for the 5 -year, 24 -hour rainfall maximum event. 3. Maintain less than 12% impermeable surfaces in the watershed in which the city lies. 4. Create a stormwater utility, that uses variable fees to incentivize enhanced stormwater management and funds community stormwater infrastructure and assistance /education programs. 5. Adopt and implement design standards or guidelines for development and re- development in the city establishing requirements for at least one of the following: a. Rain gardens. b. Green roofs with or without cisterns and water /greywater reuse systems. c. Green alleys. d. Green parking lots. 6. Adopt an ordinance with erosion and sediment control provisions as well as requirements for permanent stormwater treatment. EAGAN'S ACTIONS: Action 5a In Progress: Over 50 rain gardens have been constructed within the public right -of -way over the past three years to establish presence while investigating best practices /design standards. Completed action 6: Eagan's City Ordinances 4.32 and 4.33 address these provisions. They are included as part of City's Storm Water Pollution Prevention Program (SWPPP) in response to its Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) permit. Environmental Management (4 best practices required) Best Practice # 18 Green Infrastructure (OPTIONAL) Enhance city parks and trails STATUS FOR EAGAN: COMPLE 1'E SUMMARY OF REQULREMENTS Eagan may choose to implement this best practice by completing at least three actions. Page (34 BEST PRACTICES SUMMARY: 1. Identify gaps (connectivity breaks) in your city's system of parks, trails and open spaces, and remedy at least one of them. 2. Plan and budget for a network of parks, green spaces, water features and trails in all new development areas. 3. Document at least one of the following performance measures: a. At least 20% of total city land area in protected green infrastructure (parks and protected natural resource areas and trails). b. All residents are within one -half mile of a park or protected green space. 4. Adopt low- impact design standards in parks and trails that infiltrate or retain all 2 inch, 24 -hour storm water events on site. 5. Create park management standards that maximize at least one of the following: a. Low maintenance native landscaping. b. Organic or integrated pest management. c. Sources of non- potable water for irrigation. 6. Certify at least one golf course in the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program for Golf Courses. 7. Construct all new park buildings to a green building standard, with special attention to highlighting and educating around the green features. 8. Develop a program to involve community members in land restoration and stewardship. EAGAN'S ACTIONS: Completed Action 1: Eagan continually assesses city bike paths and wallcing trails, and restructures them in order to increase connectivity throughout the city. Completed action 3 b: Eagan has a policy in place (via the Comprehensive Guide Plan) that requires all residential properties to be within '/Z mile of a park. Completed action 8: Eagan has implemented a Park Volunteer Program where residents and community volunteers complete many park maintenance activities. Typical tasks include general clean-up throughout the park, manual removal of invasive Buckthorn, or maintenance of specific landscape beds. CONTACT: Juli Seydell Johnson, Parks and Recreation Director Environmental Management (4 best practices required) Best Practice # 19 Surface Water Quality (OPTIONAL) Improve local water bodies STATUS FOR EAGAN: NOT COMPLETE CONTACT: Eric Macbeth, Water Resources Coordinator Mike Ridley, City Planner Page 135 SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENTS Eagan has at least one state - designated public water body within its boundaries and may choose to implement this best practice by completing action (4) and at least one additional action. BEST PRACTICES SUMMARY: 1. Assist at least one lake or river association to earn the Star Lake/River designation for their lake /river. 2. Assist at least one lake or river association to become Star Lake/River -ready by achieving nearly all of the program requirements. 3. Work with other organizations to support citizen education about and involvement with actions to attain measurable, publicly announced surface water improvement targets for lakes, streams and wetlands, adopted by the city council and reported on each year. 4. Adopt a shoreland ordinance consistent with MN Dept. of Natural Resources rules as modified. EAGAN'S ACTIONS: Action 2 In Progress: Eagan approved a Water Quality Management Plan in June 1990 and updated it on 7- 17 -07. Since 1990, the nationally awarded plan has contained components to address components of the Star Lake/River management plan. The city is currently initiating third and fourth lake management plans as part of a Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Clean Water Partnership grant. Action 3 In Progress: City cooperates with Blue Thumb education program, Dakota County Soil & Water Conservation District activities, and provides training opportunities to construction industry, developers and citizens through the City's Storm Water Pollution Prevention Program Team. To complete this action, the city would need to attain measurable surface water quality improvements and publicly announce them each year. Completed Action 4: Eagan has established a shore land overlay district in Ordinances 4.33 & 11.65 Environmental Management (4 best practices required) Page 136 Best Practice # 20 Efficient Water and Wastewater Facilities (OPTIONAL) Assess and improve drinking water and wastewater facilities STATUS FOR EAGAN: NOT COMPLE 1E SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENTS Eagan may implement this best practice by completing actions (1) and (2) and at least one additional action. BEST PRACTICES SUMMARY: 1. Compare the energy use and performance of your facilities with other peer plants using standardized, free tools. 2. Plan and budget for motor maintenance and upgrades so as to assure the most energy efficient, durable and appropriate equipment is available when upgrades or break downs occur. 3. Establish an on -going budget and program for decreasing inflow and infiltration into sewer lines, involving at least gutter, foundation drains and sump pump disconnects. 4. Assess energy and chemicals use, inflow and infiltration volumes and pollutants, and implement one -third of recommendations with a payback of less than 3 years. 5. Require property owners to have their private sanitary sewer lateral pipe inspected before a property sale or title transfer. 6. Implement at least one of the following efficiency projects /programs: a. Assist local businesses, institutions and/or residents in pre - treating and lowering volumes and toxicity of sewer inflows. b. Co- generate electricity and heat from the wastewater treatment plant. c. Reuse water (sell reclaimed water) from a wastewater plant for nonpotable ag- processing, irrigation or power plant uses. d. A greywater reuse system in at least one public or private building. EAGAN'S ACTIONS: Action 1 Required: There is a state database for government buildings that requires periodic updates. It is possible that utility buildings are not among those for which they gather information. This needs to be explored further. To complete this best practice the city can use a variety of free tools such as the state's B3 database, Energy Star's Portfolio Manager or U.S. EPA's Check Up Program for Small Systems. Completed Action 2: Utilities staff evaluate and upgrade motors on an annual basis as part of capital planning. Completed Action 3: Eagan has an Inflow and Infiltration Inspection program underway in the community. Completed Action 4: The city evaluates chemical usage by inflow (daily) and also on a yearly peak demand ratio. Yearly "sludge" samples are analyzed for pollutants and reported to the pollution control agency. Completed Action 6d: The City uses untreated well water that is at 40 degrees Fahrenheit to cool the water treatment plants' heat pumps . Backwash waste water is also reclaimed by a plate settler, and reused at the head of the city's water plant. CONTACT: Wayne Schwanz, Superintendent of Utilities Environmental Management (4 best practices required) Page 137 Best Practice # 21 Septic Systems (OPTIONAL) Implement an effective management program for decentralized wastewater treatment systems STATUS FOR EAGAN: COMPLE 1E SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENTS Eagan may choose to implement this best practice by completing at least one of the actions below. BEST PRACTICES SUNIlVI[ARY: 1. Report to landowners suspected noncompliant or failing septic systems as part of an educational, informational and financial assistance and outreach program designed to trigger voluntary landowner action to improve septic systems. 2. Create a program that follows the five -step process for addressing failing septic systems developed by the University of Minnesota's Onsite Sewage Treatment Program. 3. Clarify /establish one or more responsible management entities for the proper design, siting, installation, operation, monitoring and maintenance of septic systems. 4. Adopt a subsurface sewage treatment system ordinance based on the Association of Minnesota Counties' model ordinance. 5. Create a program to finance septic systems upgrades through, for example, a city revenue bond, repayable through taxpayers' property taxes. 6. Work with homeowners and businesses in environmentally sensitive areas and areas where standard septic systems are not the least -cost option to promote innovative waste water systems. 7. Arrange for assistance to commercial, retail and industrial businesses with water use reduction, pollution prevention and pretreatment prior to discharge to septics. EAGAN'S ACTIONS: Completed Action 1: Eagan utilizes a County database of 250 -300 residential units that are required to have septic systems inspected every two years and pumped when needed. Private inspectors and pumpers are contacted by residents on their own after receiving a notice from the County. The City contracts with Dakota County, which manages the septic program. Completed Action 3: If a new build, the City ensures systems comply with State and City regulations. Completed Action 4: Eagan's Subsurface Sewage Treatment System (SSTS) ordinance (currently being updated) is available here: http://libraryl.municode.com/default- testlhome.htm ?infobase= 13070 &docaction= whatsnew CONTACT: Dale Schoeppner, Chief Building Official of: Environmental Management (4 best practices required) Best Practice # 22 Solid Waste Reduction (OPTIONAL) Increase waste reduction, reuse and recycling STATUS FOR EAGAN: NOT COMPLETE SUMIVIARY OF REQUIREMENT'S Eagan may implement this best practice by completing action (1) or (2) and at least one of actions (4) through (8). Page X38 BEST PRACTICES SUMMARY: 1. Adopt percentage reduction goals for waste and toxicity generated from city operations (including schools, libraries, parks, municipal health care facilities). Accomplish reduction goals in at least three of the following areas: a. Overall waste generation b. Paper use and junk mail c. Pesticide/herbicide use d. Water use /waste water generation 2. Adopt and meet aggressive goals for the overall percentage diversion of currently disposed waste from city operations into recycling and organics collection. 3. Document signing of at least one resource management contract with a waste hauler for one or more a. City government operations. b. Schools, libraries, parks, or municipal health care facilities. c. A commercial or industrial business. 4. Publicize, promote and use the varied businesses collecting and marketing used and repaired consumer goods in the city /county. 5. Arrange for a residential or business /institutional organics collection/management program (food -to- people, food -to- animals, composting, anaerobic digestion, and backyard composting). 6. Organize residential solid waste collection by private and/or public operations to accomplish multiple benefits. 7. For cities that provide direct or contract waste collection services, offer volume -based pricing on residential garbage and/or feebates on recycling so that the price differences are large enough to increase recycling/composting but not illegal dumping. 8. Adopt a construction and demolition ordinance for projects over a specified size that mandates levels of recycling and reuse for materials and soil/land - clearing debris and is tied to demolition permits. EAGAN'S ACTIONS: Action 1 or 2 Required: Neither the city nor Dakota Valley recycling have waste reduction goals. These would need to be established and met. Completed Action 3: Dakota County has components of a resource management contract through the waste hauler Troje in various facilities within Eagan, including the Wescott Library and Lebanon Hills Regional Park. ISD 196 has a resource management contract through Allied Waste which covers the collection of trash, recyclables at all elementary, middle and high schools and also food waste at elementary schools. Action 5 In Progress: Dakota Valley Recycling continues to explore organics recycling; no program is in place yet. Thomson Reuters has implemented a waste -to -food program, in which they donate food waste to Second Harvest Farms, which is then used to feed hogs. See YouTube video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywCWR1wzPrw • CONTACT: Dianne Miller, Assistant to the City Administrator Mike Sipper, Building Maintenance Engineer Anne Olson, Dakota Valley Recycling Page 139 Environmental Management (4 best practices required) Best Practice # 23 Local Air Quality (OPTIONAL) Prevent generation of local air contaminants STATUS FOR EAGAN: COMPLETE SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENTS Eagan may choose to implement this best practice by completing at least two of the actions below. CONTACT: Jon Hohenstein, Community Development Director Dianne Miller, Assistant to the City Administrator Mike Scott, Fire Chief Page 140 BEST PRACTICES SUMMARY: 1. Conduct an education/financial assistance campaign around one of the following wood burning/auto exhaust issues: a. Indoor and outdoor wood burning behavior, to ensure that wood burning is only done with seasoned wood and in a manner that doesn't negatively impact neighbors. b. Indoor wood burning technology, to result in community members upgrading from inefficient/more polluting fireplaces and wood stoves to natural gas stoves and fireplaces or the most efficient certified wood stoves. c. Smoker cars - older model/high polluting vehicles, to result in repairs spurred by repair vouchers. 2. Regulate outdoor wood burning, using model ordinance language, performance standards and bans as appropriate, for at least one of the following: a. Recreational burning. b. Outdoor wood boilers. 3. Conduct one or more education/behavior change campaigns on the topics below and document: a. Decreased vehicle idling in specific locales or by specific fleets. b. Increased sales by retail stores of low and no -VOC household products. c. Replacement of gasoline- powered equipment with lower polluting equipment. 4. Document the participation of at least 3 larger businesses using trucks in at least one of the following: a. Clean Air Minnesota's Project GreenFleet. b. U.S. EPA's SmartWay Transport program. c. Installation of auxiliary power units that reduce truck and bus idling. 5. Install at least two public charging stations for plug -in hybrid and full electric vehicles. EAGAN'S ACTIONS: Completed Action 2: Eagan has recreational burning regulations. See ordinance at http://www.ci.eagan.mn.us/upload/images/Fire/ Amendment %20to %20Sec %2010 %2040 %20 — %20Recreational%20Fires%20and%200pen%20Burning.PDF The city also recently adopted an ordinance regulating outdoor wood burners requiring a set back of 350 ft. from property line. Completed Action 3: Eagan has a No Idling policy for its city fleet, with few exceptions due to inclement weather. The policy has resulted in a significant decrease in idling and has catalyzed cultural and behavioral change across all departments. Economic and Community Development (3 best practices required) Best Practice # 24 Benchmarks & Community Engagement (Required) Adopt outcome measures for GreenStep and other city sustainability efforts, and engage community members in ongoing education, discussion, and campaigns STATUS FOR EAGAN: NOT COMPLE'I'tJ Page 141 SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENTS Eagan must implement this best practice by completing at least actions (1) and (2). Completing an additional action (beyond those required) allows this best practice to be counted as implementation of two best practices. BEST PRACTICES SUMMARY: 1. Report progress annually to community members on implementation of GreenStep City best practices, including energy /carbon benchmarking data if gathered. 2. Organize goals /outcome measures from all city plans - comprehensive, parks, library, housing, stormwater, drinking water, transportation, economic development, energy, sustainability, etc. - and report (at least annually) to community members data that show progress toward meeting these goals. 3. Engage community members in a public process involving a city council committee or community task force that results in city council adoption of and commitment to measure and report on progress toward sustainability indicators. 4. Conduct or support an energy efficiency or sustainability education and action campaign for: a. The entire community b. Homeowners c. Block clubs /neighborhood associations d. Congregations e. Schools and youth 5. Conduct or support a community education, visioning and planning initiative using a sustainability framework such as a. Strong Towns b. Transition initiatives c. Eco- municipalities/The Natural Step d. ISO 14001 e. Post Carbon Cities f. Permaculture g. Natural Capitalism h. Genuine Progress i. Healthy communities j. Multi- generation learning EAGAN'S ACTIONS: Action 1 Required: Part of the adoption of GreenSteps Cities is the requirement to review and report annually. In order to claim this best practice, Eagan must publish a report online that is available to community members. 4-7 P age 142 Completed Action 2: The City's annual budget includes performance measures in each department and division, which are reported annually through the budget process. The City also publishes an annual report via the Experience Eagan newsletter, which summarizes the City's goals and progress made on those goals. Completed Action 3: The City has created the Energy and Environment Advisory Commission, a 7-member commission made up of residents who volunteer their time to make recommendations to the City Council on ways to achieve the City's sustainability goals. The City also measures energy usage at facilities, vehicle miles traveled, etc., most of which are reported to the Commission. CONTACT: Dianne Miller, Assistant to the City Administrator Economic and Community Development (3 best practices required) Best Practice # 25 Green Business Development (REQUIRED) Document the use of assistance programs for green business and job development STATUS FOR EAGAN: COMPLETE SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENTS Eagan must implement this best practice by completing at least two actions. Page 143 BEST PRACTICES SUMMARY: 1. Identify new and emerging local businesses in the green economy and support these businesses and green jobs through one or more of the following: a. Coordinated marketing and business assistance. b. Incubator space. c. Streamlined grants, loans or permitting processes. d. Workforce training opportunities with community colleges and job training centers. 2. Connect at least 5 businesses with assistance providers, including utilities, who conduct personalized energy, environmental sustainability, and waste audits. 3. Distribute green tourism resources to all tourism and hospitality businesses in the city and facilitate follow -up with at least 5 businesses to assist them in greening their business. 4. Support the creation of a value -added business utilizing local waste products, such as wood from felled trees or reusable deconstruction and landscaping materials. 5. Document steps taken to lower the environmental footprint of a Brownfield remediation / redevelopment project. 6. Use a green business certification program to publicly promote that a targeted number or percentage of businesses have improved the environmental performance of their company. 7. Conduct or participate in a buy local campaign, working with local organizations and assistance providers. 8. Work with the state Small Business Environmental Assistance Program ( SBEAP) to help at least 5 regulated businesses to use SBEAP services. EAGAN'S ACTIONS: Action 2 In Progress: The City does not currently do this, but is aware that area utilities (Xcel and Dakota Electric) offer personalized energy audits and the ARROW Program has access to waste assessment tools. Dakota Valley Recycling has applied for a grant for Green Team Training for businesses and working with utilities to provide environmental/energy audits to at least five businesses in Eagan. Action 4 Complete: Gerten's Regional Eco- Services Facility is in Eagan, providing a business that provides landscaping materials from recycled, composted materials. Completed Action 6: The ARROW program promotes over 130 businesses, schools and non - profits, 44 of which are located in Eagan. For businesses to qualify for membership to this program, they must report on their practices in the areas of recycling, buying/selling environmentally preferable products, reusing and reduction of resource use via energy efficiency, water conservation or other waste - reducing efforts. CONTACT: Jon Hohenstein, Director of Community Development Susan Bast, Dakota Valley Recycling Economic and Community Development (3 best practices required) STATUS FOR EAGAN: NOT COMPLETE SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENTS Eagan may choose to implement this best practice by completing two or more actions CONTACT: Jon Hohenstein, Director of Community Development Mike Ridley, City Planner Page 144 Best Practice # 26 Renewable Energy (Optional) Remove barriers to and encourage installation of renewable energy generation capacity BEST PRACTICES SUMMARY: 1. Adopt, with modifications as necessary, at least one of the following from Minnesota's 2009 Model Ordinances for Sustainable Development: a. Solar Energy Standards. b. Model Wind Energy ordinance 2. Consistently promote at least one of the following means of increasing renewable generation: a. A local utility's green power purchasing program for homes and businesses. b. Local, state and federal financial incentives for property owners to install renewable energy systems. 3. Create a renewable energy financing program for property owners to install generation capacity. 4. Promote firms that contract with property owners (in groups or individually) to install/finance renewable installations, some at little or no upfront cost. 5. Install a public sector renewable energy technology, such as solar electric (PV), solar hot water or hot air, micro -hydro or wind. 6. Work with private /public partners to create renewable energy generation capacity with one or more of the following attributes: a. Fueled by flowing water, wind, or biogas. b. Fueled in part or whole by woody biomass, optimized for minimal air and other environmental impacts and for energy efficiency and water conservation. c. Distributing heating/cooling services in a district energy system. d. Producing combined heat and power. EAGAN'S ACTIONS: Action 1 In Progress: The City has not adopted solar energy standards or a wind energy ordinance, but City Planner, Mike Ridley, has done initial research on both wind and solar ordinances. It is anticipated that the Commission will discuss their application and potential consideration further in the future. Action 2 Incomplete: Both Xcel and Dakota Electric purchase some power from green sources and offer property owners the alternative of subscribing to green power programs for some fraction of their power needs. The City currently does not separately promote the programs. Action 5 Planned: The City has investigated the cost efficiency of solar electric (PV) on a city -wide scale and has found it to not be cost justified to date, but the Council has directed staff to continue to monitor changes in energy or PV technology costs for future consideration. Economic and Community Development (3 best practices required) STATUS FOR EAGAN: COMPLETE Best Practice # 27 local food (OPTIONAL) Strengthen local food and fiber production and access SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENTS Eagan must complete at least one action if we choose to implement this best practice Page 45 BEST PRACTICES SUMMARY: 1. Incorporate working landscapes - agriculture and forestry - into the city by adopting, with modifications as necessary, one or more of the 2009 Minnesota Model Ordinances for Sustainable Development: a. Agriculture and Forest Protection District b. Local Food Production District c. Performance Standards for Minor and Major Agricultural Retail 2. Permit the incorporation of food growing areas /local food access into a residential development. 3. Expand/strengthen or create at least one of the following means of expanding local food access: a. A farmer's market. b. A community- supported agriculture (CSA) - arrangement between farmers and community members /employees. c. A community or school garden, orchard or forest. d. A rural grocery store. 4. Conduct at least one of the following campaigns to measurably increase: a. Purchase of local and Minnesota -grown food. b. Backyard gardening. c. Institutional buying of local foods by schools, hospitals /nursing homes, restaurants and hotels, or grocery stores d. Sale of local food in markets and restaurants. EAGAN'S ACTIONS: Completed Action 2: Eagan permits community gardens in agricultural, parks, research and development and all residential districts as an accessory use, Completed Action 3: Eagan is expanding and strengthening their farmers market. The farmer's market, known as Marketfest, is held every Wednesday from 4 -8 p.m. at Central Park. The market runs from June- September and features local food providers and artisans. CONTACT: Julie Johnson, Parks and Recreation Director Kerry Phillips, Marketfest Coordinator Economic and Community Development (3 best practices required) Page 146 Rest Practice # 28 Business Synergies (OPTIONAL) Network/cluster businesses to achieve better energy, economic and environmental outcomes STATUS FOR EAGAN: NOT COMPLE'I' SUM1VIARY OF REQUIREMENTS Eagan may choose to implement this best practice by completing at least action (2), (3) or (4). BEST PRACTICES SUMMARY: 1. Help at least three businesses register as users of the Minnesota Materials Exchange and document their exchanges /sales of byproducts with other local/regional businesses. 2. Assist at least one business to use waste heat or water discharge from another business. 3. Require, build or facilitate at least four of the following in a business /industrial project: a. Shared parking/access. b. Shared recreation /childcare facilities. c. A green job training program. d. Green product development, manufacturing or sales. e. Buildings located within wallcing distance of transit and/or residential zoning. f. Renovated buildings. g. Buildings designed for reuse. h. Green buildings built to exceed the Minnesota energy code. i. Combined heat and power (CRP) generation capacity. j. Shared geothermal heating/cooling. k. Low - impact site development. 4. Use eco- industrial park tools to identify industrial facilities that could achieve economic and environmental benefit by co- locating in the city's industrial park or industrial zone. EAGAN'S ACTIONS: Action 1 In Progress: Dakota Valley Recycling regularly promotes many opportunities for reuse in all parts of the community This includes the Minnesota Materials Exchange, which was more recently advertised in the 2010 ARROW newsletter, sent out to approximately 300 businesses and community members. In addition to ARROW's general promotion of MME and the Minnesota Technical Assistance Program ( MNTAP) as a whole, Dakota Valley Recycling recently organized an event to help businesses connect with waste - reducing opportunities. "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle...and Reap Rewards" was held on October 14, 2010 as a means to encourage members of the business community in Eagan, Burnsville and Apple Valley to engage in effective and practical ways of moving toward sustainable business practices. This event included networking time with MNTAP, Minnesota Waste Wise, Recycling Association of Minnesota (RAM) and a keynote speech on green business initiatives by Andy Acho, an environmental initiative expert and former environmental strategy and outreach director for Ford Motor Company. Action 3 In Progress: This BP requires at least four actions in ONE specific, inclusive project with the intent of promoting comprehensive and highly visible projects. Numerous developments in Eagan meet variety of actions. For example, the City frequently encourages shared parking and access for public and private facilities. Its focus in new development and redevelopment areas is to place homes, jobs, shopping, transit and recreation within walkable proximity. The City has also facilitated the renovation of the Ethan Allen building, a single tenant facility into a multi -tenant retail building. The Spectrum Business Page 1 Center reused components from a dismantled Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport parking ramp as the structural elements for an office showroom facility with parking on the top level. CONTACT: Sue Bast, Dakota Valley Recycling Jon Hohenstein, Director of Community Development Juli Johnson, Director of Parks and Recreation Appendix A 1.) Recommend initiatives to the City of Eagan and its constituents to reduce waste and energy use in order to enhance Eagan's environment. Page 148 2010-2011 ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT ADVISORY COMMISSION VALUE STATEMENTS AND GOAL The Commission drafted the following four value statements at the July 20, 2010 workshop, which were subsequently approved by the Eagan City Council on August 17, 2010. 2.) Recommend initiatives to the City of Eagan and its constituents to protect the water, air, and soils in our City while enhancing the quality of life. 3.) Recommend initiatives to the City of Eagan and its constituents which support renewal of City of Eagan facilities, infrastructure, land use policies and efforts that will promote long range energy usage and resource sustainability. 4.) Recommend initiatives to the City of Eagan and its constituents on ways to partner with existing energy and environmental resources and stakeholders in order to collect and disseminate information to empower the public. Proposed Goal: 1.) To have the City of Eagan named as a GreenStep City Program participant and utilize the EEAC to review and identify how the 28 best practices identified under the program are met in Eagan within the areas of Buildings & Lighting. Land Use, Transportation, Environmental Management, and Economic/Community Development. Appendix B Appendix Eagan's Vision for the Environment, Development, and the Future http: / /www.cityofeagan.com /live /page.asp ?menu =5058 VIEW OF THE ENVIRONMENT The City of Eagan will proactively protect its natural environment. The land, water and air, as well as the things which live in them and on them, are important assets to be preserved and enhanced for our own enjoyment and well -being and that of future generations. The City's role with respect to the environment shall be that of active steward and conservator. Pollution, abuse of the environment and unnecessary modifications of the environment will be opposed. The City, collectively and individually, will endeavor to maintain the environment, mitigate impacts on it and enhance it to the extent possible. VIEW OF DEVELOPMENT Page 149 The City of Eagan is committed to encouraging and fostering orderly, high - quality development and redevelopment. The City will maintain a balanced variety of housing types, diversity of commercial and industrial development and effective integration of land use types. Eagan is planned to be a fully developed city in the future and efforts will be made to affect that growth in a rational, deliberate manner in the best interests of all residents, both present and future. The City will maintain its standards while recognizing the need to be sufficiently flexible and creative to permit quality development to occur. VIEW OF THE FUTURE The City of Eagan recognizes that its future is shaped by the decisions made today. It is also bounded by current circumstances and their dynamics over time. While growth and economic vitality continue, services must continually adapt over time to meet the changing needs of a diverse population, technological change and a global, service -based economy. To meet these needs, the City must plan with vision, encourage balanced services and welcome orderly change. Appendix C GreenStep Cities Resolution WHEREAS, the Eagan City Council has adopted a 2009 -2010 goal to exemplify a broad - based and comprehensive commitment to environmental sustainability and energy efficiency by adopting conservation and alternative energy strategies pursuing the use of local, non-polluting, renewable, and recycled resources, while encouraging residents and businesses to do likewise; and CITY OF EAGAN RESOLUTION NO. 10- 29 RESOLUTION OF SUPPORT FOR'1 CITY OF EAGAN'S PARTICIPATION IN THE MINNESOTA GREENSTEP CITIES PROGRAM WHEREAS, the Eagan City Council created an Energy and Environment Advisory Commission (EEAC) in February 2010 to review and carry out the environmental and sustainability goals and initiatives of the City; and, WHEREAS, the City of Eagan has signed the U.S. Mayor's Climate Protection Agreement; and, WHEREAS, a broad coalition of public and private stakeholders including the League of Minnesota Cities, the MPCA, Office of Energy Security and Clean Energy Response Team (CERTs) responded to 2008 State legislation by establishing the Minnesota GreenStep Cities program to provide a series of sustainable development best practices focusing on local government opportunities to reduce energy use and greenhouse gases; and, WHEREAS, the Minnesota GreenStep Cities program provides cost- effective sustainable development best practices in the following Eve categories: (1) Buildings and Lighting; (2) Transportation; (3) Land Use; (4) Environmental Management; and (5) Economic and Community Development; NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved that the City Council of the City of Eagan does hereby authorize the City of Eagan (the "City ") to participate in the Minnesota GreenStep Cities program. Be it further resolved that the City; 1. Appoints Dianne Miller, Assistant to the City Administrator and staff liaison to the Energy and Environment Advisory Commission, to serve as the City's GreenStep coordinator to facilitate best practices review and implementation; and 2. Will facilitate the involvement of the Eagan Energy and Environment Commission, Eagan City Council, City staff and constituents in the planning, promoting and consideration of implementing GreenStep Cities best practices; and 3. Will work in partnership with the University of Minnesota's Sustainable Education department by working with a team of students from a Sustainability Capstone Course, who will inventory Eagan's current sustainable best practices that meet the GreenStep Sb' Page (50 5. Will work with the MPCA to post a summary of the City's implementation of best practices on the Minnesota GreenStep Cities website. ADOPTED by the Council this 17 Day of August, 2010. ATTEST: Maria Petersen, City Clerk A Mike Maguire, yor Page 151 requirements, and provide recommendations and research on additional GreenStep best practices that the City may wish to consider; and, 4. Will claim credit for having implemented and/or will implement at least 16 required and optional GreenStep best practices that will result in energy use reduction, economic savings and reduction in the cormntmity's greenhouse gas footprint. Notes . . GreenStep City Requirements for Category A City .6 0 �/ 2 to m 5 =gym.. )k% \ _ e s • o as cr cC this best practice to be counted as implementation of two best ipractices. City staff / department or entity res • onsible � ¥ ƒG . \ For each action, describe in a few sentences all relevant implementation steps the city has taken Monthly Energy consumption at City building being monitored; particularly at buildings that received retrofits from Federal Energy grant. Dakota Electric is primary energy provider and has energy usage statistics VVCIJQVV LUG fAl/Cla a w.f." dollars with utility rebates that resulted in $1.2 million in improvements. Energy efficiency improvements, water savings, lighting upgrades, and building recommissioning were completed at several City facilities, including City Hall, Eagan Community Center, and the Maintenance Facility. Many of the selected projects had payback rates under 5 years to maximize the ROI. The city received a $657,000 Federal Cnernv Cffirionry and rnnecaniatinne RInrk Grant to upgrade city owned buildings to make them more energy efficient. The consulting firm of McKinstry oversaw the project and leveraged the grant dollars with utility rebates that resulted in $1.2 million in improvements. Implementation Status: Completed? In progess? Planned? Nothing to date? ] 2 E 3 bllc Buildings (1) Enter baseline information into the Minnesota B3 database and continue entering monthly energy use data from city-owned hi Minns_ : , 1 , ; ; . (2) Audit (or when cost-effective, recommission) all city-owned buildings in the bottom third of the B3 energy performance ranking and implement a majority of energy efficiency opportunities that have a payback under 5 years. (3) Complete energy efficiency improvements in at least one city, school or park district building (in addition to buildings addressed in action 2) via retrofit and retro - /re- commissioning, with financing at attractive interest rates under MN's PBEEEP program or related lease- purchase financing, energy performance contracting, or _other cost justified program. Notes GreenStep City Requirements for Category A City .aJ o< o= \ to ti. 6 E I jw o. m�� £�E2 t /8£q ® - f - \k ka \k0 2 in to e to k � » \ \/ City staff 1 department or entity responsible { Mike Scott, Fire Chief, 651/675 - 5910 or mscott @cotyofeag 2 k j� 9 \/k _£a) 0:( ain ' cf G• 5 E � \ } somo Mark Vaughn, Campus Facilities Manager, 651/675 -5592 or mvaughn @cityofe For each action, describe in a few sentences all relevant implementation steps the city has taken The City receives rebates from Dakota Electric and other utilities as a result of the projects funded through the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant. Examples where rebates were received include building recommissioning work and interior lighting upgrades. The City also participates in Dakota Electric's load shedding program to reduce peak demand electricity needs, which results in a rebate to the City. The City's Fire Safety Center, due to open Spring 2011, is proposed to be the first Green Globe certified Fire Station in the Country There is not a plan currently to have any sort of city/ municipality loans but the govemment currently offers discounts and rebates but not at a local level. Dakota County CDA has loans or rebates in place for buildings who want to make building improvements. Geothermal heating was installed at the Eagan Civic (Ice) Arena, which includes 33 new wells. The project was possible due to a $1.3 million federal grant from the DOE. The project was_completed in September 2010. Implementation Status: Completed? In progess? Planned? Nothing to date? CD In Progress (to be complete in Spring 2011) E Not Completed peleidwoO Not Completed (4) Participate in other state or utility programs that provide rebates or co- funding for energy efficiency improvements to public buildings. (5) Renovate and operate at least one city- owned building to meet or qualify for a green building standard. (6) Create an internal loan fund for making public building improvements based on an energy or green building standard. (7) Install in at least one public building at least one of the following energy efficiency measures: a. A distributed energy technology: micro - Iturbine. fuel cell; reciprocating engine. b. A ground- source, closed loop geothermal system where net greenhouse gases are less than those generated by the system being replaced. ivate Buildings (1) Create a marketing and outreach program with the local utility and /or the local Community Action Program to promote residential energy use reduction and energy efficiency. Notes GreenStep City Requirements for Category A City City staff / department or entity responsible Dale Schoeppner, Chief Building Official 651 -675- 5699 or dschoeppner @city, z. 6 ce3 i3 i ct) - 4 6 • CD @.) D O C CD 0 C C' 13 r• Ca 2, ,.,.. .-- 0_ in E Jon Hohenstein, Community Development Director. 651- 675 -5653 For each action, describe In a few sentences all relevant Implementation steps the city has taken Cities may not create or enforce building construction standards more restrictive than the State Building Code. With appropriate input from the Commission or other resources, the City could provide an information sheet or resource c a) ...`:: - 5 al > a) a) E >. E w it s- . 4- 0 > 0) 4? ca u)—icno,ca'6 ao 00 ,P,...c.aa) crs a m .c c • E cc) ars -a 5 .0 a) >, 8 ' 15 09 T .-;, nsw >9 P2 -0 -c a ci) ,....., , 0 c E cu „) z 0 , — a (.). — i -,-,, a) a) c 0 " _E 2 E -"" 2 0 ( 2 8 al 76 cu co .... ..... a) .-- -0 2 2 'E * 0 ° c ui 2. (.9 :E. al ° ..-...- t Cl.. S12 6 = ..-- a) c ca c > :5 o cn .,._ -c c E -?•,,_ .5. ,— „ co Ea c ' E -,- C• ( a ) ) '- • '= ta a t 2 ° 5 m `",_ as a) "E" .. 2 .=-, ° -0 ' w " D3 '-' a) c 2 a. 0 w c 5 2 c a) ,,, a) 8 .c ,(„,) ...,„>. .2 -.--„, L'* a a) ,.. a) :a mou w-cEo-— . a) ..- E ca 0 •-• E tb li; c 0) a) 4- 2 a , .0 .. c E Z• . E (I) c fa E e c'-' - — " • -.-- 13 (..) a) „, ,... a , o a) '6 .0 • , a , 0 _c_ a) c a > 0 1.3 (D 0- rij ) 0 lt) ' ED_ - 0 E 8 r ' 8 t 0 li) 'ifi .c 0 ..... ,... .•-• 0 c a) c a , .... There are four Buildings in Eagan that are LEED Certified: Eagan Place Professional Building (silver), Lebanon Hills Visitor Center !, (silver), Lockheed Martin (silver), and Alla L. Schuman Co s. Campus Ecolab (god. Implementation Status: Completed? In progess? Planned? Nothing to date? In progress co fl.. 2 Not Completed Not Completed pa }al. woo (2) Integrate green building information into the building permit process. (3) Develop a (or modify an existing) truth -in- housing inspection program for homes being sold, include a blower -door test and energy -use rating. (4) Partner with an assistance provider such as a utility, EnergySmart, MNTAP or ReTAP, and document at least one of the following: a. Building energy improvements in businesses. b. Use of Energy Star's Portfolio Manger by businesses. c. Operation of a least three buildings to meet or qualify for a green building standard. Notes (1) (Y..) .0 CU C7) a) u) as a) 0. I a) w 8 E 2 o . 0 co GreenStep City Requirements for Category A City _... 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CT) (II d C 1:3 ' 1 `' 0 ....° E a- a) • - co -5 m 7;,.. 7 3 a M E " 6 . 2 .2 m 4 c - '7 1 r) T.-.. 2..3 a. , .z...- ... 0 m CO 4 -• ... 0- c •- co a; ■-, = - .... c co co ti ( sy, -..) a) c 0 a) _c CDO0C _c F.-... .,,...-. 0 10 -0 CO (0 CO 0 ,,.., -- C = 0 0 i-5000(OLLILL00-C — war...0.0‘.-00 The City of Eagan has a permanent conservation program for outside water usage. If your address ends in an odd number such as 311, outdoor watering is allowed on the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, etc., day of the month. If your address ends in an even number such as 312, outdoor watering is allowed on the 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th, etc., day of the month. This permanent system is in effect throughout the entire outdoor watering season. The State has enacted legislation requiring cities with a water utility to adopt a rate structure that encourages water conservation. To comply with the law, most cities, including Eagan, have chosen to adopt a tiered rate structure. Eagan has a two -tier system in place. Effective July 1, 2010 residents pay the same rate they are accustomed to paying —$1.40 per thousand gallons —for the normal indoor usage. The normal usage level will be defined as water used in the winter quarter, a period void of outdoor use such as watering lawns, washing cars, and filling swimming pools. Water used in the non - winter quarters in excess of normal will be billed at $1.75 per thousand gallons." found on the Cities web page at http: / /www. cityofeagan.com/live/page.asp? menu = 21444. This GreenStep is restricted to State level. Eagan cannot require a higher standard for private owned buildings. Implementation Status: Completed? In progess? Planned? Nothing to date? -0 a) a) 0. E o (...) paaldwo9 i Not Completed Not Completed ai co •c. CL) , CIS ; ; 0); O. , E i (5) Take action to conserve drinking water resources through at least one the followin': a. Implement a robust watering ordinance. b. Implement a conservation rate structure. i. , , 1 . c. Adopt, with modifications as necessary, a model landscaping ordinance to allow for low water -use landscaping. 1 d. Create a rebate or feebate program to promote purchases of WaterSense- and Energy Star -rated appliances. (6) Provide a meaningful and significant incentive to builders, homeowners, businesses or institutions who renovate to a green building standard: 63 $ k GreenStep City Requirements for Category A City O•tional If implementing this BP, complete at least action (1) or (2) and ... City staff / department or entity responsible City Planner, Mike Ridley 651/675 -5650 or mridley @cityofea City Planner, Mike Ridley 651/675 -5650 or mridley@chrofeag, City Planner, Mike Ridley 651/675 -5650 or mridley a cityofea City Planner, Mike Ridley 651/675 -5650 or mridley©cityofea Ca L- &� — k G9 @ © ƒ G E E -,jU §t 2' §k2 E \]( E > a> =� =o«x 3 A § f §c For each action, describe in a few sentences all relevant implementation steps the city has taken ____.. __.... The city issues permits at cost. Green building design is not designated in the 2010 Comprehensive Plan. Green building design has been used for the new fire safety center. Green building design assistance may be included in the next Comprehension Guide Plan revision, in 2018. Implementation Status: Completed? In progess? Planned? Nothing to date? palalawo0 ION Completed by State palalawo0 ION sseJooaa ul pelalawo0 TON I Ts o pelelawo0 l0N palaldwo0 TON pelelaw00 loN Not Completed ssalSad uj / w J E ) \ J « b. Grant, rebate or tax breaks (e.g., property fay ahatamantl $ \ G E 7 e - ° } x | d ca . ' - oi \ 7 0 5 ! / « CI 8 �} ; | " ; ! a (7) Customize a model sustainable building policy and adopt language governing commercial renovation projects: a Raraivinn city financial sunoort. and /or b. Requiring city regulatory approval lcnnriitinnal IAA narmit_ rezoning- PUD status). (8) Arrange for on -bill financing, using either utility or property tax bills, to make home /building sustainability improvements easier and more affnrriahla ew Green Buildings (1) Build at least one, or e quire by ordinance, new city-owned buildings and substantial remodels to meet or qualify for a green building standard. Notes GreenStep City Requirements for Category A City ... at least ONE additional action. CO 0 rn 0 c a) c a) 16 O ° in ao a a) 28a) 0..0 •V 0. -. 0 0 0 07 1c 0. U N N C m -c . City staff / department or entity responsible Community Development Director Jon Hohenstein, City Planner Mike Ridle For each action, describe in a few sentences all relevant implementation steps the city has taken At the Central Maintenance Facility, the City replaced exterior wall pack lights on the large salt storage barn with LED fixtures. The lights are intended to aid maintenance staff who are loading road salt into trucks. Several overhead security lights were also replaced with LED fixtures at Rahn Park Athletic Complex/Shelter. The lights illuminate the shelter for park users and aid with overnight surveillance. These examples are further testing the effectiveness of outdoor LED lights. Implementation Status: Completed? In progess? Planned? Nothing to date? Not Completed Not Completed 1 pe }aldui09 ION Not Completed Not Completed Not Completed Not Completed Not Completed 1 Not Completed Not Complete 1 peleidiuo0 t Not Completed 1) m 0 a_ c (2) Work with the local school or park district to ensure that all schools or park buildings meet or qualify for a green building standard. (3) Customize a model sustainable building policy and adopt language governing new development proiects: a. Receiving city financial support, and /or b. Requiring city regulatory approval (conditional use permit, rezoning, PUD). (4) Provide a meaningful and significant incentive to residents, builders or developers who build to a green building standard: a. Building permit fee discount b. Expedited permit review c. Green building design assistance d. Grant, rebate or tax breaks (e.g., property tax abatement) e. Density bonus (5) Adopt covenant guidelines for common l interest communities addressing issues such as stormwater, native vegetation, clothes lines and renewable energy. (6) Work with local financial institutions to use energy - efficient mortgages for buildings seeking a building certification. I atdoor Lighting & Signals (1) Require energy efficient, Dark -Sky compliant new or replacement outdoor lighting fixtures on city -owned buildings and facilities. Notes f GreenStep City Requirements for Category A City :D l oo 0 0) C a) W o.. CO Q. o E ") o m v "- 8 w 2 City staff / department or entity responsible Tim Plath, Transportation and Operations Engineer, 651/675 -5643 or tplath @cityofeaga Tim Plath, Transportation and Operations Engineer, 651/675 -5643 or tplath @cityofeaga Dakota County Transportation Department Paul Olson, Superintendent of'', Parks, 651/675- 5330 or Olson @cityofeaq; Tim Plath, Transportation and Operations Engineer, 651/675 -5643 or tplath @cityofeag j For each action, describe in a few sentences all relevant implementation steps the city has taken No City Ordinance to date. State to prepare model ordinance per State statute, which City would consider. State requirement for "cutoff luminaire" for any street lighting replaced with State funding. City tracks street light outages, when it was reported to utility, and when it was repaired. Per fee schedule, inefficient fixtures are replaced by utility company on a 10 -year cycle. The City, in partnership with Dakota County, has synchronized traffic signals on PK Rd, YD Rd and Cliff Rd for directional rush hours. The City also has 2 Round - abouts and 2 flashing yellow left turn arrow signals to reduce idling time. 3 more FYA's planned for 2011. City completed a Solar Panel Feasibility Study (May 30, 2010) for roof top installations on various City facilities. Report concluded the ROI currently not economically feasible. Demonstration project at City Maintenance Facility programmed to install LED fixtures in parking lot lights in 2012. 100 % of traffic signals within the City are LEDs Implementation Status: Completed? In progess? Planned? Nothing to date? etaldwo3 10N bulobuO peteldwoO peiejdwoo ION Not Completed In Progress Completed Not Com•leted (2) Require all new street lighting and traffic signals to be Dark -Sky compliant, energy efficient lighting technologies. (3) Modify any city franchise or other agreement with a utility to facilitate rapid replacement of inefficient street lighting. (4) Synchronize traffic signals so as minimize car idling at intersections yet maintain safe and ( publicly acceptable vehicle speeds. (5) Install solar powered lighting in a street, parking lot or park project. (6) Work with a utility program to relamp exterior building lighting for at least 30% of city-owned buildings with energy efficient, Dark -Sky compliant lighting. (7) Replace at least 50% of the city's parking lot lighting with Dark -Sky compliant, energy efficient, automatic dimming lighting technologies. (8) Replace at least one -third of the city's traffic signals with energy efficient LED lighting technologies. Aiding Reuse (1) Develop and adopt a historic preservation ordinance to encourage adaptive reuse, with attention to energy and resource conservation, indoor air quality and other green building practices. ui Notes GreenStep City Requirements for Category A City • Any THREE additional best practices 9l City staff / department or entity responsible For each action, describe in a few sentences all relevant implementation steps the city has taken : co 0 .0 .. ......_ -P- cu 2 z. ° 8 5 Li -0 -0 cu co ---;; 0 L. - 5 -0 L 0 c 0) .LS a) :-.0 )..) 0 • I ca .c ..c c > = .- 1 U) CO as 0 w ..-- c 0 a • al c - ..-. 1 2 5 (t) cl) 0) --- .... a ,-. T..- a) c (3 al ED_ ''-' - o -•- •-c c _c_ 8 w a) a) ..... u , c ci t i m 2 a) - o . 6a c 7 - 2 u — a) E- u) al ..c > ta ;:ii C "Cr 0 2 " ' a ) 6 -o I ›, 2 0 ( al a) ..c 2 ° a) 0 4 a. > 0 a) u) - a...a - o 0 o) E 8-•,a) as 0.-- 5 o).5..m. a) :E a U ) Tt) l a .) '4= "" '''' c i.) / c -5 E - a) I 8 a) r_ ,.y 2 12 .-0 1-,.. III 0 cs , t , E 2 0 .b- r) 4:2 o cci a) . .a > , 4 6 *-• o ti E >- 0 cu a) E o ( 4 5 :o a 13 a) -c■ to ... -0 "6" cD ' C.: 0 . 2 0 t 5 4 - E - r) s;:s = (7) (..) = c a) a) -- E TA 0 - 5 ..', cn T. c 0 . ) cn .... T ( • c) o ti ..c E o 2. co iii a E '2 — a..-: 0 a) 2 •-• CD g' ,...s— 0 co .c 2 a) _0 .— a) Ei. 1— 0. = .2. 2 .c a o_ .E :E. a) 8s E ..E_ -a N to col Implementation Status: Completed? In progess? Planned? Nothing to date? Not Completed Not Completed Not Completed -c; o (2) For cities with traditional downtown areas, implement the Main Street model for commercial revitalization with attention to green building practices. i ■ . 1 i (3) Work with a local school to either add -on space, or to repurpose space into non - school uses. with attention to areen building practices. 1 1 (4) Create /modify a green residential remodeling assistance /financing program to assist homeowners in adding space to their existing homes while retaining historic architectural elements. L i i (5) Adopt development and design standards that facilitate infill and redevelopment, such as developing strip /big box commercial areas into more livable /walkable neighborhoods and gathering_places. 1 among all the best practices (1 - 28), the "floating reauirement: TOTAL BEST PRACTICES IMPLEMENTED TO BE RECOGNIZED AS A STEP 3 GREENSTEP CITY 67 Notes GreenStep City Requirements for Category A City Required: BP #6 plus ONE other BP Required BP Required action c 0 fi IP_ Cr City staff / department or entity responsible Community Development Director Jon Hohenstein at 651/675 -55653 or jhohenstein©cityofeagan. or City Planner Mike Ridley at 651/675-5650 or mridley ©cityofeagan. com Ea C eL ca o go o _1.0, E 15 N--.,, g z. ,,,>-• : ..,.. r..) 11- 0 0 Community- Development' Director Jon Hohenstein at 651/675 -55653 or l jhohenstein ©cityofeag an. or City Planner Mike Ridley at 6511675 -5650 or mridley ©cityofeagan. 1 com For each action, describe in a few sentences all relevant implementation steps the city has taken The last Comprehensive plan was done 2008 and adopted on April 6, 2010. The following is the link to the Comprehensive Plan for land use. http: / /www.ci.eagan. mn.us/upload/images/comprehensive/2030% 20Comprehensive %20Plan /3 %20- %20Land% 20Use low.pdf ordinances. For example, the following language is included in the City's ordinances pertaining to the comprehensive plan: "These regulations are adopted for the following purposes: (1) To protect and provide for the public health, safety and general welfare of the city; (2) to guide the future growth and development of the city in accordance with the comprehensive guide plan, the official map and the capital improvement program of the city:..." See http ://librarvl.municode.com /default- Comprehensive Guide updates are coordinated with the Met Council and adjacent and overlapping jurisdictions by definition. All changes require notice to and the opportunity to comment by those agencies. City adopted Comprehensive Transportation Plan in 2009 and Regional Roadway System Visioning Study in 2010. IGR activities with Watershed Management Organizations across jurisdictional boundaries. City approved stormwater mgmt plan on 1 -17 -06 and Water quality mgmt plan on 7- 17 -07. Comprehensive Guide updates are coordinated with the Met Council and adjacent and overlapping jurisdictions by definition. All changes require notice to and the opportunity to comment by those agencies. City works with State and municipal agencies to coordinate coo erative efforts i i . I Implementation Status: Completed? MINNESOTA GREENSTEP CITIES I In progress? BEST PRACTICES, ACTION OPTIONS j Planned? Nothing to AND PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS date? . _. ._. : CD f 0 (xi 1 L2 a. • CO a) • - 0 E =0 in 6 . (1) Adopt/have an adopted j comprehensive plan that is less than ten years old (required for Category A cities) OR, Category B and C cities may simply adopt a land use plan that was adopted by a regional entity or the county less than ten years ago. iCompleted . . F 1 I . (2) Demonstrate that regulatory ordinances comply with the comprehensive plan including but not limited to having the zoning ordinance explicitly reference the comprehensive plan as the frninriatinnalductinventfor . i i . (3) Include requirements in comprehensive plans for intergovernmental coordination dealing with at least six of the following issues: , . I 1 1 1 r . Complete and a. Transportation i onaoina , . i . I I , I I i i ■ . . . puloouo stoeawl paysieleiA - q pue ataldwoo l ] , I � Complete and c- Land use (ongoing , . I 1 I 0 I Complete and d. Economic development i ongoing 6C c a 0 0 z GreenStep City Requirements for Category A City City staff / department or entity responsible Public Works Department Community Development Director Jon Hohenstein at 6511675 -55653 or jhohenstei n @cityofeagan. or City Planner Mike Ridley at 651/675 -5650 or mridley @cityofeagan. com For each action, describe in a few sentences all relevant implementation steps the city has taken , The City works jointly with the Dakota County CDA to monitor and provide resources to properties and property owners affected by foreclosures. ; Police /Public Safety not referenced in Comp Plan . Fire /Public Safety not referenced in Comp Plan . . Rely on State and County health departments to implement and enforce health standards; not included in City's Como Guide Sewer and Water Comp plans were adopted on 1- 20 -09. City adopted Inflow and Infiltration Mitigation Program in December 2009. The Comprehensive Plan includes by reference the City's Parks and Open Space Plan and its 2020 Vision for Parks and Open Space. The City implements this individually and in cooperation with other agencies including the Dakota County Greenway project and similar eroorams. Implementation Status: Completed? MINNESOTA GREENSTEP CITIES In progress? BEST PRACTICES, ACTION OPTIONS Planned? Nothing to AMr DRnf:RAM PPnt IIREMENTS date? 1 ; i . .5. i 1 J . ; , , Complete and I- Iniicinn anti fnraclnstirE?s lonaoina CI> cci j CO _ ) ) 5 ) 3 i P - 0 . CD cCI CO ........ Complete and h I- Icalth i nnaoina l ;■.. . . . UUIUUUU I Jcf +Gm IJu Jomo' pue ateIdwoo i . . ; ■ . .. i . (4) Include provisions in the comprehensive plan that explicitly aim to achieve all of the following nnalc. I.. . a. Minimize the fragmentation and development of agricultural, forest, wildlife, and high quality open space lands in and around +h. nihr Gmmnleted I i .• . . b. For cities adjacent to undeveloped land: establish a growth area with staging criteria that reflects projected population growth and, if applicable, is subject to an orderly annexation agreement and planned extension of miinininal Coniin.0 Not applicable i 1 I c. Establish policies with numerical targets to reduce vehicle miles traveled. Ongoing ,4. 2 7 7/ FJ 7/ Notes i Optional GreenStep City Requirements for Categ y A City If implementing this BP, complete at least TWO actions. City staff / department or entity responsible L.. I 0 T ..... 6 0 - 0 L I = o pa 1 5 ,.... CL 1.... - , < o a) o 0 r C 0 0 00 o E a. cii E o in Ta cl x o 0 „ Ill i 0 .4- Community Development Director Jon Hohenstein at 651/675-55653 or ;johenstein @cityofeagan. or City Planner Mike !Ridley at 651/675 -5650 or mridley @cityofeagan. com !Community Development Director Jon Hohenstein at 651/675 -55653 or jhohenstei n @cityofeagan. or City Planner Mike Ridley at 651/675 -5650 or mridley @cityofeagan. com For each action, describe In a few sentences all relevant implementation steps the city has taken City works with Dakota County CDA to provide a range of lifecycle housing opportunities through CDA funding sources. Examples include numerous senior living facilities in partnership with the CDA. The Cedar Grove Redevelopment was approved on basis of the Cedar/13 Study, which involved a facilitated analysis of the project area and future development scenarios. This analysis included community and stakeholder input. The Opportunity City Program Study Report will also provide design professional input relative to the City's three mixed use special areas.____ The Library and Community Center meet this requirement See trail map on City website at http: / /www.ci.eagan.mn. us/upload/images/Public%20Works/park% 20trails &sidewalks.pdf MVTA transit service provides transportation to multiple City facilities. I Implementation Status: Completed? MINNESOTA GREENSTEP CITIES In progress? BEST PRACTICES, ACTION OPTIONS Planned? Nothing to AND PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS Nate? Complete and d. Other incentives. 1 ongoing (5) Modify the city zoning and zoning map to allow, without variance or rezoning in at least one district, developments that meet the prerequisites for LEED- Neighborhood Development certification. Not completed .......... xed Uses (2) Locate or lease a new government facility that has at least two of these attributes: a. Adjacent to an existing employment or residential center. Completed b. Designed to facilitate and encourage access by walking and I biking. Completed c. Accessible by any existing ; regular transit service. : Completed (1) Create a main street program or organize a Minnesota Design Team planning charrette. 73 Notes GreenStep City Requirements for Categpy A City City staff / department or entity responsible C a) 0) as 2 . al Lo c „cu 4- _, LO E a) -,-• ■-. 0 .- as E )- 2 0 5 .. ,..) i".5 ..- . .., .,.., ii n1 r‘ E a) c E 0 a) 1 ( 0 as c WOO 00 0 0 For each action, describe in a few sentences all relevant implementation steps the city has taken City is participating with local businesses, multiple local agencies, two chambers of commerce, and Dakota County to ensure planning for corridors for transport of goods, transit and broadband for economic development. Another example of regional coordination is the City's participation in the Robert Street Corridor efforts. see above Already fully developed in commercial areas and in highway planning Expanded ponding for water quality purposes when the City completes the Duckwood Overpass, programmed for 2011 ; . 1 . 1 . 1 Implementation Status: Completed? MINNESOTA GREENSTEP CITIES iln progress? BEST PRACTICES, ACTION OPTIONS 1 Planned? Nothing to AND PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (date? . 1 i . 1 (2) Participate in regional economic development planning with representatives from surrounding townships, cities, the county and business interests to: Completed i . . a. Estimate commercial /industrial needs amona all iurisdictions. in progress 1 . : b. Jointly implement recommendations to stage highway commercial development in order to avoid overbuilding and sprawl. in progress , . . . 1 (3) Adopt transportation 'infrastructure design standards that accomplish at least one of the followina: ; . 1 a. Improve the ecologic functions of land adjacent to hiahwav corridors. I planned . . : b. Facilitate clustering of commercial hiahwav development. in progress 1 . . . , ; . 1c. Context - sensitive desian. I Not Completed . . . . . . (4) Adopt, with modifications as necessary, at least one of the following model ordinances: . a. Model access management overlay i Not Completed . , 1 . .. . 1b. Hiahwav Commercial District i Not Completed . . : . c. Adequate Public Facilities ordinance that stages highway commercial development concurrently with infrastructure expansion. Not Completed . . . . (5) Require decommissioning in development agreements for big box stores should they remain vacant for several years. 'Not Completed --.. 7S2 Notes Optional GreenStep City Requirements for Category A City If implementing this BP, complete at least ONE action. j ny THREE additional best ractices City staff / department or entity responsible Eric Macbeth, Water Resources Coordinator 651 - 675 -5330 Juli Seydell Johnson, Director of Parks and ,Recreation, 651/675- 1 115506 or ijsjohnson ©cityofeagan. com For each action, describe In a few sentences all relevant implementation steps the city has taken City approved original Water Quality Management Plan in June 1990. Approved updated Water Quality & Wetland Management Plan on 7- 17 -07. Incorporated wetland inventory, mapping, and assessment for purposes of classification. Classification determines level of avoidance, protection /buffer, or replacement, when allowed. The City has partnered with other entities (e.g. Dakota County) to fund conservation easements to preserve land in the Eagan Core Greenway ___ , ■ ■ Implementation Status: Completed? MINNESOTA GREENSTEP CITIES In progress? BEST PRACTICES, ACTION OPTIONS I Planned? Nothing to AND PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS !date? , , , 1 10. Conservation Design , , ■ , 1 (1) Conduct a Natural Resource Inventory and Assessment (NRI and NRA) and incorporate protection of priority natural 1 systems or resources through the . subdivision or development process, as described in Minnesota's 2009 Model Ordinances for Sustainable Development. 1 Completed (2) For cities outside or on the 1 fringe of metropolitan areas, conduct a cost of public services study for development outside the 1 city grid and adopt development standards or a concurrency ordinance to ensure staged urban growth that protects natural I systems. i not applicable , , ■ (3) For cities within metropolitan areas, incorporate by policy 1 woodland best management practices into zoning or 1 development review. 1 Not Completed , , , ■ (4) For cities with undeveloped 1 natural resource areas use, or I adopt as policy the use of, a conservation design scorecard as a tool in negotiating development agreements. 1 Not Completed (5) Develop and fund a conservation easement program, such as a purchase of development rights program, in collaboration with a land trust. Completed From among all the best practices (1 - 28), the "floating BP" requirement: .7"" N m 0 z m o lc CO 2 U • m -0 rn m c 0 a. o E o h m 0 2 ° o m m 5 a rn z O co co W Z -Ow a z W O _ t- CD 0 Q • w < 1- V to p„ re LU w ° Z co 0 w N } (9 I- OU o wow U w O m W ¢O a 0 OO f-� W W I J < O co - se }oN . i GreenStep City Requirements for Category A City Required: BP #15, BP #16, BP #17 and ONE other BP Required BP ! Complete action _CD, and ... ... complete at least ONE additional action. ',. City staff / department or entity responsible Mike Sipper, Building Engineer, t 651- 675 -5556 or msipper @cityofe Maria Petersen, City Clerk, 651/675 -5034 or mpeteresen n@city Mark Vaughn, Campus Facilities Mgr, 651/675 -5592 or mvaughn @cityof, N O N Tim Plath, Transportation and Operations Engineer, at 651/675 -5643 or!, tplath a@cityofeag Maria Petersen, City Clerk, 651/675 -5034 or mpeteresen @city I a) O d O p E p t1 �tJ ti O N N N c co N u, , ELo w • - v �n E < o<(D v Implementation Status: I Completed? In For each action, describe In a few progress? Planned? sentences all relevant implementation Nothing to date? I steps the clty has taken 'Not Completed I [ The City purchases 30% envirocopy recycled paper. • • • I Not Completed Locally produced soy beans for use as 1 biodiesel, Marketfest program promoting 1 Not Completed ,local food sources ! Not Completed !Specified use of recycled shingles in Hot ,Mixed Asphalt (HMA) pavements for public ;street improvements. The City also purchases recycled paper products (toilet ; paper, towels, etc.) and has replaced carpeting c percentage. t. No p olro y m Not Completed !place to dictate ate a Not Completed I_ 4 ' Not Completed saoll3eJd Iuawabeuew letuawuoJlnu3 61 115. Environmental Purchasing 1 Adopt a policy or administrative policy idirecting that the city purchase only: a. EnergyStar certified equipment and !appliances and b. Paper containing at least 30% post- 1 consumer recycled content. I ! F ' (2) Purchase 15% of city energy .requirements from renewable energy sources. land, working with a local business association, !develop a list of locally - produced products and ,suppliers for common purchases. (5) Set minimum standards for the percentage of recycled- content material in at least 5 products typically purchased by the city, such as asphalt and roadbed aggregate. (6) Require printing services to be purchased', from companies certified by Minnesota Great I Printers or by the Sustainable Green Printing ' Partnership. I (7) Lower the environmental footprint of i meetings and events in the city through one or more of the following: _._._.._.___._._ f , ; I I a. Adopt a policy for meetings and events 1 hosted by_ city government. ._ ___ '7 7 setoN 1 1 1 I I I • . GreenStep City Requirements for Category A City --------- painbaa I City staff / department or entity responsible a) 'a• t '.. t- . V) In 4 E' ,I '. r• , ; cs) Kristi Peterson, IT Manager, 651/675 -5092 or kpeterson @cityof Mike Sipper, I Building ;Engineer, 651- I 1675 -5556 or I msipper @cityofe ;Mike Sipper, Building !Engineer, 651 - !, 675 -5556 or msipper@cittofe c 1 4-- 0 - t: co @.) ,..0- L.: (ID @ ck• an a) to )-- . co a) to ) Mike Sipper, Building Engineer, 651- 675 -5556 or i msipper @cityofec Mike Sipper, j Building !Engineer, 651 - 1 675 -5556 or I msipper @cityofe Mike Sipper, Building (Engineer, 651 - 675 -5556 or msipper @cityofec Implementation Status: Completed? In For each action, describe In a few progress? Planned? sentences all relevant implementation Nothing to date? _steps the city has taken __ 1 Not Completed Not Completed Not Completed I , [Not Completed ! No formal policy in place, but green cleaning products are purchased when available. Would need guidelines /policy implemented to achieve best practice. Not Completed ;carpet in municipal facilities replaced with Ieecycled content carpet. Need ,In progress Iguidelines /policy•.— _ Not Completed recycled paper products are purchased for all facilities, including Eagan Community Not Completed Center ..... b. Adopt a policy for meetings and events taking place on city property, including parks .., and libraries. it 1 a. Electronics [ — !......._ b ......_..... Wood products _...._.. Ic. Organic food ii d. Cleaning products l � I ;I I le_ Paints, coatings and adhesives if. Carpets f j g. Furniture I — I [ I I i h. Paper products ....... 116 Urban Forests .....-.---.--.... ._...._.— _._._..- .--- .-- _ -._. -- ._ -. SOWN GreenStep City Requirements for Category A City - Complete at least TWO actions. City staff / department or entity responsible Gregg Hove, 1 Forester, ghove @cityofea 651/675 -5319 as o ri Lo - . co w CD to ,- CD ta.. ca co '':Gregg Hove, [Forester, ghove @cityofeag :651/675 -5319 :... 6 - g' ci. -- 3 ,_ 17 9 tr) 17 ,(T ) ) —° r." 13 15 a) co a) •r-'" 0 0 Eil 1 co o tsc o o a) 4- — ig co a l co E Implementation Status: Completed? In For each action, describe In a few progress? Planned? sentences all relevant implementation Nothing to date? steps the city has taken ;The City of Eagan is certified as a Tree Completed ;City USA. I { i E i ! paj6iduuo3oN 1 I i the city has a green space ordinance, which includes pervious/iimpervious. requirements as well as tree mitigation policies, but no requirements pertaining to canopies per se. The City is likely close to (meeting these percentage requirements, ;but nothing documented at this time. Pictometery technology could be used to {analyze our percentage of canopy ,Not Completed icoverage. i I 1 I Not Completed I See explanation above. - - I alge3jdde }ou (1) Qualify as a Tree City USA. (2) Adopt as policy MN Tree Trusts' Best Practices and use the guidelines in at least one development project to achieve an - iexcellent an exemplary rating. (3) Budget tree installation and maintenance to, within 15 years, achieve the following tree canopy shading for streets, sidewalks and 'parking lots in the following zoning districts: 1 i la. At least 25% for industrial and !commercial zoning. 1 1b. At least 75% for residential zoning. (4) Maximize tree planting along your main ;downtown street. 1(5) Adopt at least two of the following Cordinances /policies: li t f I a. Adopt a policy of no net loss of specified ;natural landscapes. — s 1 } GreenStep City Requirements for Category A City (Required vofoe ANOI !seal le alaldwoOl City staff / department or entity responsible co co _ M L V , .N 0 J C C o y . C Z" c U. ; (s 4 Engineering Division, Public Works De. artment Public Works ! Department Implementation Status: I Completed? In I For each action, describe in a few progress? Planned? !sentences all relevant implementation Nothing to date? !steps the clty has taken City had adopted a Tree Preservation Ordinance that requires the replacement/mitigation of significant trees l or woodlands removed during development in excess of an allowable removal limit of approximately 20 -40 %, as determined by the development type. The number of ?mitigation trees installed is determined by a formula based upon the size and type of the tree removed and size of the replacement. The ratio for replacement to 1 Completed removal ranges from 1:1 to 12:1. City staff is developing a low mainte i',nce yard management policy for review o 'nd consideration by the City Council atf • Not Completed Not Completed City has adopted design requirements of on -site rainwater infiltration for a 1/2 inch !rainfall and no net increase of Phosphorus I and Total Suspended Solids (TSS) for construction sites. The Phosphorus & TSS 'requirements often increase the actual Not Completed ;infiltration. Not Completed Not Completed I Council has discussed analysis by staff at workshop including credit for impervious area reduction. Has selected various rate !levels based upon land use and relevant In progress !impact to stormwater quantity. I ! I ! ! i i ! ! I b. Adopt a policy relating to replacement of trees on public, or on public and private, property. ! ! c. Adopt landscaping /nuisance ordinances that promote. rather than create barriers for. I a3 ' (1) Complete the Blue Star City stormwater management assessment and achieve a i minimum threshold of specific activities Idetailed in this program. 1(2) Adopt by ordinance one or more of the Ifollowino: la. A narrower streets provision that permits !construction of 22 -foot roads. k I b. A 1.5 inch rainfall on -site rainwater infiltration design requirement for construction I sites. i c. A stormwater runoff volume limit to pre- 'development volumes for the 5 -year, 24 -hour I rainfall maximum event. 1(3) Maintain less than 12% impermeable !surfaces in the watershed in which the city lies. I (4) Create a stormwater utility that uses !var fees to incentivize enhanced stormwater management and funds community stormwater infrastructure and . assistance /education programs. Notes If implementing this BP, complete at least THREE actions. GreenStep City Requirements for Category A City leuogdO I City staff / department or entity responsible Tom Colbert, Public Works Director, 651- 675 -5635 or tcolbert@cityofee co 5 L.- 4-.., c c - CO V....9 C to Z - • a.) 0 . 0 10 C C >, (0 .— E E -, 0 Lc? .., ■ ILO E 0 2, C r`• C >., ft I ,,, T) (,) a) co co ••••• CD ''' E > 2 .c — ..c 5 a- 7o- o to o 7: ,..., o ,_ ,_..... G r..-. 00 Tom Colbert, Public Works Director, 651- 675 -5635 or tcolbert@cityofea ...... 0 co a o •,,,. co ---=• c:: Z• — a. CO to (0.40 73 ^ " 1 C a) 0 0) 0 r..... Cil CO c LI- C.) CO ,... ..— .c - o Ea_ s•-• -5 = o c .— to • Jul! Seydell Johnson, Parks and Recreation Director, 1651/675 -5506 or Usjohnson cityol For each action, describe in a few sentences all relevant implementation steps the city has taken Over 50 rain gardens have been constructed within the public right -of -way over the past 3 years to establish presence while investigating best practices /design standards. I Included as part of City's Storm Water Pollution Prevention Program (SWPPP) in response to Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) permit. City Ordinances 4.32 and 4.33. two trail connectors; (1) Connection to Woodhaven Park amenities from a redevelopment district that will have limited space for recreational opportunities (2) Walnut Hill trail connection to the primary trail grid. City approved Community Transportation Trail System Policy 12- 13 -04. 'Ea is almost entirely developed, and Ihas 54 parks, over 1,200 waterbodies and 'wetlands, and an extensive trail system Implementation Status: Completed? In progress? Planned? Nothing to date? ssait5ad Li] Not Completed Not Completed 13 c....) z Completed pataldwo0 i Completed . I 1 , : (5) Adopt and implement design standards or !guidelines for new development and re- 'development in the city establishing Irequirements for at least one of the following: i I. : I � Ia. Rain gardens. ) lb. Green roofs with or without cisterns and ;water /greywater reuse systems. c. Green alleys. , 1 i I I t I d. Green parking lots. 1 (6) Adopt an ordinance with erosion and !sediment control provisions as well are 1 requirements for permanent stormwater 1treatment. 1 18. Green Infrastructure 1 t 1(1) Identify gaps and connectivity breaks in your city's system of parks, trails and open I spaces, and remedy at least one of them. : : . I 1(2) Plan and budget for a network of parks, 'green spaces, water features and trails in all 1 new development areas. 1 1 I 1 I I : : u _(3) Document at least one of the following: Notes GreenStep City Requirements for Category A City City staff / department or entity responsible Juli Seydell Johnson, Parks and Recreation Director, 651/675 -5506 or jsjohnson @cityofl L- `I U) c 0 co 4= co $.0 co 0 It '5 co c 0 0 C . - LC) •--, co tr- co •-• (i) 2 C f t5 co c 0 0 0 .- LO • 1 L.. 0 co 4- co 0 o c..:- ir, 0 o cy o h. u) c0 u) W c 1-- 0 0 0 C .- LO •--• . Juli Seydell Johnson, Parks and Recreation Director, 651/675 -5506 or jsjohnson @cityof For each action, describe In a few sentences all relevant implementation steps the city has taken See land use map showing 54 City parks and other dedicated green space preserved via Conservation easement (e.g. Caponi Art Park). The following link shows Eagan's land use map: http: / /www.ci. eagan.mn. us/upload/images/map_library/LandUseMap common parks are to have a service area of 1/4 mile and neighborhood parks are to have a service area of 3/4 mile. See link to Comp Plan section at: http: / /www.ci.eagan. mn. us/ upload /images /comprehensive /2030% I 20Comprehensive %20Plan/5 %20% I 20ParksandRec_low.pdf While such a standard does not exist, the City has done a number of things to minimize run off and manage storm water in parks, such as: is a design consideration :1. added a number of rain gardens into parks to capture water where the level of runoff is high; 2. established and maintain buffer strips; 3. reduced the amount of mowed turf, especially on slopes; and, 4. installed soft bottom drains in fields (drill a deep hole /fill it with gravel /put a grate on top)____ area of mowing within parks by approximately 10 %, allowing many areas to return their "natural condition ". The City Ihas installed and manages 30 acres of native prairie within park sites. An i unmowed buffer ranging from 10' to 30' is retained around ponds and water bodies. The City uses rain barrel at the Eagan Art House (at Patrick Egan Park) for some irrigation i— No City owned golf courses; two private Ecourses in Eagan Implementation Status: Completed? In progress? Planned? Nothing to date? pataldwoo . Completed a.) 15. (...) . 8 pataldwoO Not Completed bwobuo algeolldde iou . . . ! ■ . , ■ i I ,a. At least 20% of total city land area in protected green infrastructure (parks and !protected natural resource areas and trails). , , . . ' . ' I b. All residents are within a''A mile of a park I or protected green space. . . . . it (4) Adopt low- impact design standards in I I parks and trails that infiltrate or retain all 2 I I inch, 24 -hour stormwater events on site. (5) Create park management standards that maximize at least one of the following: a. Low maintenance native landscaping. I � [ € b. Organic or integrated pest management. , , , . 1 - i i c. Sources of non - potable water for ! irrigation. . . . (6) Certify at least one golf course in the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program for Golf Courses. Notes GreenStep City Requirements for Category A City Optional in a , , 0 .0 a) I e a 72 -0 .0 .1), ,., 0 0 _4 o o a , eL -.. 2 °- -0 — a , 0 43 .— — E :c E c lili = a " c „ -o ›-..c o .,... c3 al " co a) ° 0 o "I ' a) "0 Ca ''"' C U '7, P 7/3 ra C: "'' u ti 1 1 - .2.), l o ' Ca a) a 5 Z E i'.3 a) o 0 di ; Z^ a 3 c 43 = ,,,) E 0 0 0 - S5 0 .E E 0 z 21 5 rf) o) t--, o 0 a) cc= g _ E ,_ .._ 0 a) -- 4 -.3 0 01 0 0. 2 .- -0 -0 74 o• co > E s f C a ) . . . . , , , c a ..c EC _ C 0 0 CL CO .- CL CO tO 1 City staff / department or entity responsible co „, c ..... 0 4- " 0 . ..., ---1 1 co a a, ...p. n lt) LO --c" sw.n? C .0 TS 2 .,-. 0 0 c — so -- -", CO 0 CD .g..), I .-..:', .e 01.e ,.... , .... = a) a) u, o 0 ve.1 43 a) _ o = .0 * ' - • ° 0 0 s" co a 0 ..... Ca 0 in CO ■ C..) .= ...,,to a) o h. El'a UJ 5. W 0 up 1:Djui "-o- :.' .6 en o 0 CO , 0 0 u.) 0 Eric Macbeth, Water Resources Coordinator, 675 -5330 or emacbeth©cityol For each action, describe In a few sentences all relevant implementation steps the city has taken This would only apply if the City rebuilt existing_park shelters /buildings. Eagan has implemented a Park Volunteer Program where residents and community 1 ra. :F. co . c, 0c, ci ..4' c" a) c — ° 8 -0 E E a) .c a , e z -o 0....Ne al co as , co o a --• " -9-.) z - 0 CO C CD CO •-• 4-.' - E C .c ›, a) a) 0 .-- a) a) c0 co c -ci E 0 - F., n3 r1- ...; a 05OlOcpcoc c 0 TE CU 0 ) 13 - ..0 • co CU a) *E 0. „9 .— 0 - ■,_ '2 = 7 o. co as - o a" -0 a) os °I 2 ta. > c •,-- 0 ,-- ■-• c all a , Cl. -SG :•.--• CII 0 1 1 a) 0 .c t CI- = 0 4... .0 c t co ca • la 0 lE,-, 0) C Pat :2 * 2 'ral ce ri- = CO _as Currently initiating third and fourth lake management plans as part of MPCA Clean 'Water Partnership grant. , City cooperates with Blue Thumb education program, Dakota County Soil & Water Conservation District activities, as well as providing training opportunities to construction industry, developers and i citizens through City SWPPP Team. Implementation Status: Completed? In progress? Planned? Nothing to date? f t I l 1 -01 0 ■ 0 1 El o I 01 ..-01 Z1 -c) a) a) a) a E o C.) 1 a) .22 c).. E o o • 15 Z co • 0 ssei6a ul ssaJ5 id ul I yreen ounuuiy sranuer wnn apecial auenuun to highlighting and educating around the green features. • s I •dlyspJeme s pue uoge.io}sai pue a siagwewl ATlunwwoo eAIOAul of wei6oid a dolanea (g)1 I i a) if; ,... o " -J a) ... 0 , ., tir1 4-• ..... CO a) a ) ..Y • C CU o .0 — V) E 115 co 0 „a II, a c co co co < 15 C o .2' co v _ co cot ....... co DI co IP- a) E .... ... eL .... „, .... CU .`" 4- a) ...... c a) .-• ..... 0 ._ 1Accc o -5 a) Cn 7-1 a) E 0 cr) <j 7 C - , 2 o 0 5 ...., cr Fq- ti) 6 , 2 1(3) Work with other organizations to support citizen education about and involvement with actions to attain measurable, publicly announced lake, stream, ditch and wetland health improvement targets adopted by the city council and reported on each year. s 3 seloN GreenStep City Requirements for Category A City Optional G CD 0 -0 .4-- 8 ,V3 co E rn E " 2. 41 C.) ...../ ... at least ONE additional action. City staff / department or entity responsible Ord 4.33 & 11.65. See Shoreland Overlay ;Mike Ridley, City District at: http: //library1.municode.com: !Planner, 675- 80 /default - test/template.htm? 1 5650 or view= browse &doc_ action =setdoc &doc keyi m ridley @cityofeal Wayne Schwanz, Superintendent 1 I of Utilities, 651/675 -5215 or wschwanz @cityo According to GreenStep Cities, to complete this best practice the city can use a variety of free tools such as the state's B3 database, Energy Star's Portfolio Manager or U.S. EPA's Check Up Program for Small Systems. The City currently works closely with Dakota Electric to monitor energy use at the treatment plants, maximize rates, and alter pumping sequences to reduce electrical demand. According to the Superintendent of Utilities, each treatment plant is a unique operation that do not lend themselves well to comparisons with others. In fact, Eagan has difficulty even comparing their two water treatment plants in terms of energy usage given the Utilities staff evaluate and upgrade motors on an annual basis as part of capital planning Wayne Schwanz, Superintendent of Utilities, Current Inflow and Infiltration Inspection 651/675 -5215 or program underway in the community. wschwanz @cityo; evaluate chemical usage by inflow(daily) and also on a yearly peak demand ratio. We also take yearly "sludge" samples and have them analyzed for pollutants and report this to the pollution control agency. .................. For each action, describe In a few sentences all relevant implementation steps the city has taken Implementation Status: Completed? In progress? Planned? Nothing to date? palaldwoo', 13 - patajdwoo pa ;al woo' Completed .........._.._......_..... ......._. Not Completed 1(4) Adopt a shoreland ordinance consistent 1with MN Dept. of Natural Resources rules as !modified. i 20. Water and Wastewater Facilities i 1(1) Compare the energy use and (2) Plan and budget for motor maintenance and upgrades so as to assure the most energy !efficient, durable and appropriate equipment is lavailable when upgrades or break downs !occur. 1(3) Establish an on -going budget and program for decreasing inflow and infiltration into sewer lines, involving at least gutter, foundation drains and sump pump disconnects. (4) Assess energy and chemicals use, inflow and infiltration volumes, water reuse potential and pollutants, and implement one -third of recommendations with a payback of less than 1 3 years.__ (5) Require property owners to have their private sanitary sewer lateral pipe inspected !before a property sale or title transfer. i 1(6) Implement at least one of the following projects /programs: 81- Notes If implementing this BP, complete at least ONE action. GreenStep City Requirements for Category A City i i t I I i CO I 0I .........., 0 0 CO o 1 City staff / department or entity responsible , CD cr3 Implementation Status: Completed? In I For each action, describe In a few progress? Planned? ! sentences all relevant implementation Nothing to date? steps the city has taken_____ ) Not Completed Not Completed Not Completed ...._..._.... The City uses untreated well water that is at 40 degrees Fahrenheit to cool the water I treatment plants' heat pumps . Back wash !waste water is also reclaimed by our plate settler, and reused at the head of our water Completed I plant. City utilizes County database of 250 -300 residential units that are required to have septic systems inspected every two years, and pumped when needed. Private inspectors and pumpers are contacted by I residents on their own after getting noticed from County. The City contracts with ! Dakota County, who manages septic Completed program. Not Completed If new build, City ensures systems comply Completed with State and City regulations. have own Subsurface Sewage Treatment System (SSTS). See ordinances (currently ( being updated) at: http: / /library1.municode. I com /default - test/home.htm? Completed Imfobase= 13070 &doc action =whatsnew The City's general policy is that properties will be upgraded to City sewer and water whenever practical. This is the preferred option when a system fails. The City's policy is not to publicly support the quality Not Completed or improvement of private systems._ — . . , . .. !a. Assist local businesses, institutions and /or residents in pre- treating and lowering volumes and toxicity of sewer inflows. . ... . . , I. .. l b. Co- generate electricity and heat from the `wastewater treatment plant. . , , ■ . c. Reuse water (sell reclaimed water) from la wastewater plant for nonpotable ag- ___lprocessing irrigation or power plant uses,.........._ j id. A greywater reuse system in at least one public or private building. . . , . 21.Septic_Systems (1) Report to landowners suspected non compliant or failing septic systems as part of [an educational, informational and financial !assistance and outreach program designed to ;trigger voluntary landowner action to improve septic systems. . . (2) Create a program that follows the five - step process for addressing failing septic systems developed by the University of Minnesota's Onsite Sewage Treatment Prooram. . , . . 1(3) Y Implement one or more organizational ! options for the proper design, siting, i operation, monitoring and maintenance of septic systems. , . . l(4) Adopt a Subsurface Sewage Treatment !System ordinance based on the Association of !Minnesota Counties model ordinance ;template. . (5) Create a program to finance septic (systems upgrades through, for example, a city ! I revenue bond, repayable through taxpayers' 'property taxes. . I se;oN GreenStep City Requirements for Category A City Optional – — – If implementing this BP, complete at least action (1) or (2), and ... City staff / department or entity responsible Dianne Miller, Assistant to the City Administrator, 651/675 -5014 or dmiller @cityofeag IMike Sipper, ;Building Maintenance Engineer, '651/675 -5556 or msip�er @cityofea. o ,a r..c --‘-- c .:.: co . .... > d ai o o 15 o ... -'6' -•-• (NI :..5. I • © u) a 0 as 0 ■ © to CD -SG .. 0 LL v ..Y •C Implementation Status: Completed? in For each action, describe In a few progress? Planned? , sentences all relevant implementation Nothing to date? steps the city has taken l Encourage designs to comply with existing systems. The City rarely if ever gets any Not Applicable i new septic system requests. Not Completed___ _ T _.....__. INot Completed Not Completed__ – __ - -_ Not Completed INot Completed Not Completed t � Not Completed Road; Lebanon Hills Regional Park – Schulze Beach, 832 Cliff Rd; and Lebanon Hills Regional Park – Maintenance Shop, 1075 Butwin Rd, ISD 196 has a Resource Management contract with Allied Waste. This contract covers the collection of trash, recyclables at all elementary, middle and high schools and also food waste at elementary schools. Work with homeowners and businesses in environmentally sensitive areas and areas 'where standard septic systems are not the least -cost option to promote innovative waste 'water systems. 1(7) Arrange for assistance to commercial, I retail and industrial businesses with water use reduction, pollution prevention and ;pretreatment prior to d ischarge to septics. _.. 22. Solid Waste Reduction I (1) Adopt percentage reduction goals for [waste and toxicity generated from city ;operations (including schools, libraries, parks, Imunicipal health care facilities). Accomplish !reduction goals in at least three of the following =areas: la. Overall waste generation lb. Paper use and junk mail 1 c. Pesticide /herbicide use _ Id. Water use /waste water generation I 1 (2) Adopt and meet aggressive goals for the !overall percentage diversion of currently disposed waste from city operations into recycling and organics collection. 1 (3) Document signing of at least one I resource management contract with a waste I hauler for one or more of: a. City government operations. s I i1 ' b. Schools, libraries, parks, or municipal !health care facilities. � 5810N � / | � City staff I department or GreenStep City entity Requirements for responsible Category A City l... at least ONE of actions (4) through i Anne Olson, Dakota Valley Recycling____ ------- leuog 0 I If implementing this BP, complete at •least TWO actions. i • 1 ------------ ------ For each action, describe in a few sentences all relevant implementation steps the city has taken 1 The County was unaware of any Eagan 'businesses with RCMs. Madelyn Cioci, MPCA's RM contract coordinator, was also not aware of any businesses in Eagan with Not Completed , RM contracts. Not Completed I Dakota Valley Recycling continues to explore organics recycling for residents; no' program in place yet. Thomson Reuters has implemented a waste -to -food program, in which they donate food waste to Second I Harvest Farms, which is then used to feed l hogs. See YouTube video at: http: / /www. in progress lyoutube.com /watch ?v= ywCWRlwzPrw Not Completed 1 aigeolidde iou Not Completed Not Completed . i Not Completed Not Completed Implementation Status: Completed? In progress? Planned? Nothing to date? � I• I c. A commercial or industrial business. � 1(4) Publicize, promote and use the varied !businesses collecting and marketing used and repaired consumer_goods in the city /county,__ • I • I (5) Arrange for a residential or 'business /institutional organics !collection /management program (food - to- 'people, food -to- animals, composting, anaerobic digestion, and backyard composting). ' . � (6) Organize residential solid waste collection by private and /or public operations to !accomplish multiple benefits. ' (7) For cities that provide direct or contract waste collection services, offer volume -based pricing on residential garbage and /or feebates on recycling so that the price differences are large enough to increase recycling /composting but not illegal dumping. , (8) Adopt a construction and demolition `ordinance for projects over a specified size that mandates levels of recycling and reuse for 'materials and soil /land - clearing debris and is tied to demolition permits. _ iyllen0 . !V 15001 .£Z . (1) Conduct an education /financial assistance campaign around one of the ,,following issues: a. Indoor wood burning behavior, to ensure wood buming is only done with seasoned wood and in a manner that doesn't negatively impact neighbors. . 1b. Indoor wood burning technology, to result community members upgrading from inefficient/more polluting fireplaces and wood I ' stoves to natural gas stoves and fireplaces or the most efficient certified wood stoves. 4 c. Smoker cars - older model /high polluting 'vehicles, to result in repairs spurred by repair !vouchers. Notes j ! j 1 I I � � [ I i 3 i i t � i � City staff / department or GreenStep City entity Requirements for responsible Category A City Dianne Miller, I Assistant to the I City Administrator, :651/675 -5014 or . dmiller @cityofeaa Dakota Valley I Recycling - .__ - -- Any THREE !additional best !practices c ! CO (Al to E > w O co != . I Implementation Status: Completed? In For each action, describe In a few progress? Planned? sentences all relevant implementation Nothing to date? I steps the city has taken I ! ICity has recreational burning regulations. I See ordinance at http: / /www.ci.eagan.mn. us /upload /images /Fire /Amendment% ! 20to %20Sec %2010 %2040 %20 -% I 20Recreational%20Fires%20and% Completed_ I200pen %20Buming.PDF Iset back requirements (350 ft. from property line). The ordinance was recently ! adopted and has not been codified yet. IWhen it, the ordinance will be available on Completed the City's Website. i I I I !The City has a No Idling policy for city fleet, with few exceptions due to inclement weather. The policy has resulted in a significant decrease in idling and has been a cultural and behavioral change across all I ( !Completed departments. Not Completed Not Completed Not Completed • Not Completed Not Completed Not Completed { r j 1 I I — I ( (2) Regulate outdoor wood buming, using model ordinance language, performance standards and bans as appropriate, for at least one of the following__ _._ ............................ li 1 1 I a. Recreational burning. b. Outdoor wood boilers. (3) Conduct one or more education /behavior change campaigns on the topics below and document: I i . ! Vi a. Decreased vehicle idling in specific locales or by specific fleets. b. Increased sales by retail stores of low and no -VOC household products. c. Replacement of gasoline - powered equipment with lower polluting equipment. (4) Document the participation of at least 3 !larger businesses /fleets in at least one of the (following: a. Clean Air Minnesota's Project GreenFleet. I b. U.S. EPA's SmartWay Transport ;program. I c. Installation of auxiliary power units that !reduce truck and bus idling. 1 I(5) Install at least two public charging stations for plug -in hybrid and full electric vehicles. From among all the best practices (1 - 28), the ! "floating BP" requirement: g? 0 CD C c C O E -c 0 9 9 • > a , u , d e B fa co co 0 .0 CO 0 0 0 4g • C a) U) C 0. O a) CO LL 0 EL 0 I ILI CO Z W W w O EL 2 co co l - 0 < P 0< g r..4 z Cl) Lii c o 0 —J < CC tIJ CO 0 , 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 i I . . . coloN GreenStep City Requirements for Category A City Required: BP #24 and BP #25 and ONE other BP RequiredBP_ _.__:� Required action_ _ g2 Cil-g, r- ww-ggi 1 , 1= wzzg. , Lo 8 ,-,,,-_->..g- 213.1g.r43 Complete at least TWO actions. _I H i ! 11 1 1 1 City staff / department or entity responsible Dianne Miller ALIf t-Egg gg:Fttag 5.2 , , ..- -e. - E - 261 ..E.21 2-niiigimil.¢ Ei<02-010.4couo-o Dianne Miller, Assistant to the City Administrator, 651/675-5014 or dmiller @city_oteag, ......i L. 2.,i ,41, o lilmoo-e-E 121'514 g 8 . 1,,, .11:4-ocuow.c For each action, describe in a few sentences at relevant Implementation steps the city has taken Part of the adoption of greensteps cities is the requirement to review and report annually. the city of Eagan has passed a resolution to adopt greensteps cities. In order to claim this, we must publish a report on line that is available to community members. The City's annual budget includes performance measures in each department and division, which are reported annually through the budget process. The City also publishes an annual report via the Experience Eagan newsletter, which summarizes the City's goals and made on those goals,_ The City has created the Energy and Environment Advisory Commission, an 8- member commission made up of residents who volunteer their time to make recommendations to the City Council on ways to achieve the City's sustainability goals. The City also measures energy usage at facilities, vehicle miles traveled, etc., most of which are reported to the Commission. i i 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 Implementation Status: Completed? In progress? Planned? Nothing to date? 1 asal U i''..., i 1 1 i 1 i 1 , 1 I To E I '81 131 fi. Tol 16% E gi El g Not Completed__________ - Not Completed i i 1 1 1 i MINNESOTA GREENSTEP CITIES BEST PRACTICES, ACTION OPTIONS AND PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS 5 Economic and Community Development Best Practices Benchmarks 8, Community_Engegemant (1) Report progress annually to community members on implementation of GreenStep City best practices, including energy /carbon benchmarking data if gathered. 6i 1 • E E a tm w 6 — E ,. c 76E2 timt a m,qa ■"' 8 g >'• S- g a '111 € ei ( gl, 0 gi 11 ', c 7i EL g ..r. 21 - m - z , m2mr - Tomr-wi R 4 L75 c't 1;8.515 wZg=== Em a ... . g q: .2 EljEgal g• 8 8 E 0 E 8 Cs Z . : = 1 3' Em8.-acoi RagEggl m Pt cm mZ. :41.2 ‘6, . 1 1 SI to• 1 f .' 'I . . g CT (4) Conduct or support an energy efficiency or sustainability education and action campaign for. a. The entire community b. Homeowners c. Block clubs /neighborhood associations d. Congregations e. Schools and youth (5) Conduct or support a community education, visioning and planning initiative usinga sustainabil4 framework such as:___ a__Strong Towns b. Transition initiatives c. Eco- municipaiities/rhe Natural Step d. ISO 14001 e. Post Carbon Cities f Permacuiture_________ ssejbo,d euinuaj 'Li wspelldep jeinjeN '6 I. Healthy communities ). Multi - generation learning Breen Business Development,_ (1) Identify new and emerging local businesses in the green economy and support these businesses and green jobs through one or more of the following: Incubator space. — ___ . ........._...._..... 'c. Streamlined grants, loans or permitting _ _ d. Workforce training opportunities with community colleges and Job training centers. i 1 oil _ .... _ ____ _ | ' | | | | | � | . | r __ seloN • | / [ / . | | / GreenStep City Requirements for Category A City , it � City staff / department or entity responsible Susan Bast, Dakota Valley Recycling, 952- 895-4524 or sue. bast@ci. bumsville.mn.us Brent Corey, Eagan Convention and Visitor's Bureau at 651/675 -5544 or brent ©eagammn. corn Susan Bast, Dakota Valley ,Recycling, 952- 895 -4524 or sue. bast©ci. bumsville.mn.us_ ti For each action, describe In a few sentences all relevant implementation steps the city has taken The City does not currently do this, but we are aware that area utilities (Xcel and Dakota Electric) offer personalized energy audits and the ARROW Program has access to waste assessment tools. Dakota Valley Recycling has applied for a grant for Green Team Training for businesses and working with utilities to provide environmental/energy audits to at least five businesses In Eagan....... Gerten's Greenhouse and Ecosite is in Eagan, providing a business that provides landscaping materials resulting from recycled composted materials mm _ Other than taking and documenting the steps necessary to accomplish clean up and receive the appropriate acknowledgements of site remedlation from MPCA, the City does not take any additional documentation steps. The ARROW program promotes over 130 businesses, schools and 'anon- profits, 44 of which are located in Eagan. For businesses to qualify for membership to this program, they must report on their practices in the areas of recycling, buying /selling environmentally preferable products, reusing and reduction of resource use via energy efficiency, water conservation qr other waste - reducing efforts. '',The Marketfest program promotes local food sources and reduction in transportation of food, but it appears that the City has not yet implemented a campaign with a broader scope. BROADER (FRAMEWORK OF BUYING LOCAL; Marketfest is one way this could be done. - -- ..__...'ewe of sp a suop lou se4 T110 eta Both Xcel and Dakota Electric purchase some power from green sources and offers property owners the alternative of subscribing to green power programs for some fraction of their power needs. The City does not separatelypromote the programs. _______ _...__. Implementation Status: Completed? In progress? Planned? Nothing to date? peuueld'', • • • ,Not Completed 2 li E Not Completed__ Completed ssei6 Uj 11 I | T17)1 E NESOTA GREENSTEP CffIESBEST ,CTICES, ACTION OPTIONS AND (GRAM REQUIREMENTS (2) Invite assistance providers, Including utilities, to conduct personalized energy, environmental suslalnabllity, benchmarking, and waste audits with at least 5 businesses. (3) Distribute green tourism resources to all tourism and hospitality businesses in the city and facilitate follow -up with at least five businesses to assist them in greening their business. (4) Support the creation of a value -added business utilizing local waste products, such as wood from felled trees or reusable deconstruction and landscaping materials,_ (5) Document steps taken to lower the environmental footprint of a brownfieid ,remedation/redevelopment projecL____ (6) Use a green business certification program to publicly promote that a targeted number or percentage of businesses has improved the environmental performance of their company. ( Conduct or participate In a buy local campaign, working with local organizations and assistance providers. (8) Work with the state Small Business Environmental Assistance Program (SBEAP) to help at least 5 businesses to use SBEAP services. (1) Adopt, with modifications as necessary, at least one of the following from Minnesota's 2009 Model Ordinances for Sustainable Development _.____ a. Solar energy standards. b. Model wind energy ordinance_ (2) Consistently promote at least one of the following: A local utility's green power _ purchasing program for homes and businesses. 'b. Local, state and federal financial incentives for property owners to install renewable energy systems. qi -___-___________-__. | � | 1 | | __ | | | satoN | � . . | | � GreenStep City Requirements for Category A City Optional If implementing this BP, complete at least ONE action. | City staff / department or entity responsible Jon Hohenstein, Director of Community Development, 65116755653 or jhohensteln @cityoi Jon Hohenstein, Director of Community Development, 651/6755653 or jhohenstein@cit _o l | (6L£9 - 1.99) enoH 66aJD � '5 � For each action, describe In a few sentences all relevant Implementation steps the city has taken_______ The City has investigated the cost efficiency of PV on a City wide 'scale and has found it to not be cost justified to date, but the lCouncil has directed staff to continue to monitor changes in energy or PV technology costs for future consideration. 'asap /o Aue euop tou say Apo eta RN la Community gardens have been allowed in Eagan City Parks and on church properties. They are permitted in: agricultural, parks, research & development all residential districts as an accessory use and possibly commercial & industrial zones as an accessory use. The City has partnered with a local food shelf by providing space in a City park (Woodhaven Park) for the installation of a produce garden to be used by food shelf patrons. The City also provides °community gardens plots" in a neighborhood park (Holz Farm) that are available for residents to rent Paean Parks R Recreatinn snnnsnrs a lama farmers market each Wednesday evening throughout the summer in Central Park, with tocajly_grownproducts sold. Implementation Status: Completed? In progress? Planned? Nothing to date? Foi 75 -0 Planned peteldtiioO aoN Not Completed | petelduioO t 7575 MINNESOTA GREENSTEP CITIES BEST PRACTICES, ACTION OPTIONS AND PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (3) Create a renewable energy financing program for property owners to install generation capacity _.._,.__.,.,__....._.._. _. _. rn• o,,,,,,,,,e e,,,,., ,ti ,.r .., ,,l, ., ,.,jtt, (5) Install a public sector renewable energy technology, such as solar electric (PV), solar hot water or hot air, micro- hydro or wind. ',.(6) Work with private /public partners to create renewable energy generation ,capacity with one or more of the following lattributes: a. Fueled by flowing water, wind, or biortas -. b. Fueled in part or whole by woody biomass, optimized for minimal air and other environmental impacts and for energy efficiency and water conservation. c. Distributing heating /cooling services in a district energy sy_stem.._ d. Producing combined heat and power. '�.. -ocai Food • (1) Incorporate working landscapes - agriculture and forestry - into the city by adopting, with modifications as necessary, one or more of the 2009 Minnesota Model Ordinances for Sustainable Development: a. Agriculture and Forest Protection District b. Local Food Production District c. Performance Standards for Minor and Major Agricultural Retail. (2) Permit the incorporation of food growing areas/local food access into a residential development. (3) Expand/strengthen or create at least one of the following;____ a. A farmer's market. b. A community- supported agriculture (CSA) - arrangement between farmers and community members /employees__ c. A community or school garden, orchard or forest. d. A rural •rotary store. 9 _ ' . • This BP requires ONE specific, inclusive project. The intent of this BP Is to push I projects that are highly visible end comprehensive. • • • • . . • - 1" I 1 i seloN I I 1 GreenStep City Requirements for Category A City t ieuogdO 2 I 1 .Ew E-0--- 1gr4 ! i City staff / department or entity nsible Kerry Phillips (kphillips @cityofea 651 - 675- 5525)_ A' > ggi 73 s4 Egtqg'2 '-ragtp,r6 mowwmm ! I m w' 01 ., ..t17-7,0' gl E -, ,,poow...s. Juli Johnson, Director of Parks and Recreation, 651/675-5506 or Isjohnsonicityofe. ngttig =Ea8 - gboo2r Jon Hohenstein, Director of Community Development, 651/675 -5653 or jhohenstein@cityof For each action, describe in a few sentences all relevant Implementation steps the city has taken According to Philipp Muessig, an intentional city campaign (continuous promotion of farmers market, matchmaking between schools and local farmers, representatives visiting restaurants to help them get local food, etc.) would be required to complete this action. 1! 1111 Fi u ri.!! 1.:•.1 'Dakota Valley Recycling regularly promotes many opportunities for reuse in all parts of the community. Included in this is the Minnesota Materials Exchange, which was more recently advertised in the 2010 ARROW newsletter, sent out to approximately 300 businesses and community members. In addition to ARROWs general promotion of MME and the Minnesota Technical Assistance Program (MNTAP) as a whole, Dakota Valley Recycling recently organized an event to help businesses connect with waste - reducing opportunities, including MNTAP. "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle...and Reap Rewards" was held on October 14, 2010 as a means to encourage members of the business community in Eagan, Burnsville and Apple Valley to engage In effective and practical ways of moving toward sustainable business practices. This event included networking time with MNTAP, Minnesota Waste Wse and Recycling Association of Minnesota (RAM) and a keynote speech on green business initiatives. The keynote speaker was Andy Acho, an environmental initiative expert and former environmental strategy and outreach director for Ford Motor Company. The City has not done this. See below The City frequently encourages shared parking and access for public and private facilities. Currently, the Cedar /Cliff shopping center parking lot (40 stalls) is used for park and ride usage. The City has co- located a number of its neighborhood parks adjacent to elementary and middle schools and one of the City's major sports complexes is located adjacent to Eagan High School for shared use. The City's focus in new development and redevelopment areas is to place homes, jobs, shopping, transit and recreation within walkable proximity. The City has facilitated the renovation of the Ethan Allen building, a single tenant facility into a multi- tenant retail building. The Spectrum Business Center reused components from a dismantled Minneapolis -St Paul International Airport parking ramp as the structural elements for an office showroom facility with parking on the top level. Implementation Statue: Completed? in progress? Planned? Nothing to date? peteidwoD IoN L: I , I; E E I I I 1.0.! gi 01 z g ra. 0 pataldwoo Not Completed Not Completed_ Completed Completed Not Completed MINNESOTA GREENSTEP CITIES BEST PRACTICES, ACTION OPTIONS AND PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS , (4) Conduct at least one of the following campaigns to_measurably Increase: __ a. Purchase of local and Minnesota - grown food. b. Backyard gardening. c. Institutional buying of local foods by schools, hospitals /nursing homes, restaurants and hotels, or grocery stores 15 ri2 2 ° iggg gii3g i sE8-2, - ...g..L. em.0 . .5'g . ss 11114! ilV-,I1 siLlo 1222Z! z d. Sale of local food in markets and restaurants. lusinessLynergies� (1) Help at least three businesses register as users of the Minnesota Materials Exchange and document their exchanges/sales of byproducts with other local /regional businesses. ',(2) Assist at least one business, through a voluntary coordination or incentive program, to use waste heat or water (discharge from another business or city (facility. (3) Require, build or facilitate at least four of the following in a business/mdustrial project a. Shared parking! access .........................._. b, Shared recreation !childcare facilities. c. A green job training program. d. Green product development, manufacturing_ or sales.___._. e. Buildings located within walking distance of transit and /or residential zoning. f, Renovated buildings__ ._...__,_._. g_ Buildings designed for reuse. I I I .., I iii i 9 . . � . . ... . . . . 1 . . se1°N I � } ( � � / I Green Step City Requirements for Category A City City staff! department or entity responsible_ &\ ) y t§/ §\| { §{ ,OO , ' . ;| \ For each action, describe in a few sentences all relevant Implementation steps the city has taken The City has also adopted surface water management standards ,that are intended to facilitate low impact development The City has not done this. � } { � i } { { { � .....� � . [ Implementation Status: 1Completed? In progress? Planned? Nothing to date? Not Completed__ Not Completed Not Completed Nat Completed Not Completed ( . � ( [ NESOTA GREENSTEP CITIES BEST ■CTICES, ACTION OPTIONS AND )GRAM REQUIREMENTS h. Green buildings built to exceed the ( [Minnesota energy code. i. Combined heat and power (CHP) generation_capacity. I). Shared geothermal heating/cooling. Low - impact site development. (4) Use eco- industrial park tools to identify industrial facilities that could achieve economic and environmental benefit by co- locating in the city's industrial park or industrial zone. ... .._a From among all the best practices (1 -28), the ;'Boating BP" requiremenk TOTAL BEST PRACTICES IMPLEMENTED TO BE RECOGNIZED AS A STEP 3 GREENSTEP CITY � | � • m 2 N N 0 0 z '° o Z * 0 . m Q m N ° v E N V 0 2 I2 a. or Co a. 2 m 0 a) C O C m C m - w y 2 m C c•C, 0 0 0 0 0. CD ii m m IL C • V U (a l) m 0 ) m N .0 C m m CD a) Q 0 0 a. _ O N _ ui . N 3 (0 a; N j V a)N N a N N•5• V O .a � ... C_ C ( n m .Q O O • O _ O o CO U � ,a m• C.O (($ O a) C C o fl Q =O EN o? m c0 O N s 0 m T r .• T N co m 0 .> T O m O) co N N •0 m _c o• (a c m E 0 V m m ..r m .0 E T U .a N 2 E 0, U V m N O ( o ', C ' C m a) oa) ao•m m C W N 0- O p.. 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N (0 p O 43 U `s a.• mr• @� a c m c E aQ' m 1 -F 0WCD °-U O a V G C co O O N (V N a) CD .0 'C C _ U N O. m r• a_ N N c (D .0 E 2 o. C � j N O F- F -OWm° N T . F- C Ca O V O a. N C m F- E O Q CO Ua 0 0 Notes GreenStep City Requirements for Category A City Required U) co a) U) 16 = 01 2 a) 8 CI- ,..., E L'i o 0 I 1 : City staff / department or entity responsible • — . "3' E ro a.. .- r- a in I— I— OW 0 I .E* 15 el i .0 co "E r) el 0) (U 4-- C Q. :;--; co 0 IL o ..... .... ft.• --. -c = • — C to —, * Tim Plath, Transportation and Operations Engineer, at 6511675 -5643 or tplath @cityofeagan. com For each action, describe In a few sentences all relevant 'implementation steps the city has taken Installation of two roundabouts: intersection of Diffley & I Rahn and intersection of Denmark & Central Pkwy. Eagan also encouraged implementation of radio transmitted traffic signals, installation of flashing yellow left turn signals to reduce idling, for example, along Yankee Doodle Rd. Chokers /narrowing on Ashbury Drive, Blackhawk Lake Road, Deerwood Drive, Denmark Avenue (added sidewalk). website @ http: / /www.ci.eagan.mn. us /upload /images /Public %2oWorks /park %a I20trails &sidewalks.pdf, and along routes. The transit routes may also be found via the City of Eagan website and MVTA ;website @ http: / /www.mvta.com /System_Map2.html The City completed an application for an "Active Living" grant through the Dakota County Public Health Department, funding provided by the Statewide Health Improvements Program. The application proposes funding for 1.) WayFinding signage at key points and trail heads along the City non - motorized trail system. The signage would included II a City trail map as well as a County /regional trail map; 2.) New bike racks at major City owned facilities; and, 3.) Healthy initiative (bike /walk) promotions at the City sponsored Market Fest events Cedar Avenue Bus Rapid Transit Corridor; new MVTA Park and Ride station opened in Cedar Grove in 2010, and numerous other Park and Ride facilities across City City has active wellness program for employees and encourages employees and residents to participate in Healthy Steps, a Dakota County walking effort Plan implemented for Red Pine Elementary, Gary Anger, I Principal. Similar program could be implemented in other parts of Eagan. Implementation Status: Completed? In progress? Planned? Nothing to date? paialdwo0', tO co or 11. In Progress Completed Completed Completed and Ongoing_ • • MINNESOTA GREENSTEP CITIES BEST I PRACTICES, ACTION OPTIONS AND I PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS • i S • I ........ ........ 112. Mobility Options I signage and /or a web site that shows (by neighborhood if a larger city) key civic/commercial sites, best bike and pedestrian routes, and transit routes and `schedules. - i I b. Increase the number of bike facilities: racks, bike stations, showers at city offices. s c. Increase the number of bus facilities: signage benches, and shelters. Id. Increase the number of employers who I offer qualified transportation fringe benefits I instead of only a tax -free parking fringe benefit. e. Launch an Active Living campaign in concert with your local community health board. i I i f (2) Launch a Safe Routes to School program with educational, public health and other partners. 617 Notes GreenStep City Requirements for Category A City IeuogdO a) o) a) a) o E ° a) c); r (4 City staff / department or entity responsible Tom Colbert, Public Works Director, 651 - 675 - 5635 .0 o - 0 LC) C st 'ff 15 0 C a (NI CD = ce) a) a) Lc) a) G 0 • - 0 LC) C 0 0 13 t) 0 01 0 a) co a LC) IL CD , •-■ , ■-• In - 0 Lc) For each action, describe In a few sentences all relevant implementation steps the city has taken Cedar Avenue Bus Rapid Transit Corridor, Park and Ride facilities were recently established. The city has interest in continuously working with neighboring communities to expand the existing transit services. Eagan has downsized the type of vehicles used in various fleets. Eagan's first fire response now has more efficient vehicles by replacing the 12MPG Ford Explorers with the 21MPG Ford Escapes. Two hybrid vehicles, the 30 +MPG Ford Fusions, are utilized for administrative purposes to replace the old 20MPG Impalas. Eagan has replaced a street maintenance vehicle with a seasonal worker riding a bike for boulevard maintenance. Automatic Vehicle Locator (AVL) program to increase patrol efficiency during snow emergencies. Downsized the type of vehicles used in various fleets. Eagan's fire response has more efficient vehicles, two hybrid vehicles are utilized for administrative purposes, and Eagan has replaced a street maintenance vehicle with a seasonal worker riding a bike for boulevard maintenance. As an example, the previously used fire vehicles were getting 9 -12 MPG, and the newfire department vehicles are I getting 18 -20 MPG. The City also goes through an annual interactive process with all departments to determine which vehicles need to be replaced each year, which vehicles could be used in other departments to match usage with the right vehicle, and which vehicles could be eliminated entirely. Implementation Status: Completed? In progress? Planned? Nothing to date? i "0 i 01 0 E I E I E co i o i o 01 0 I 0 Z 1 o 1 Z 1 Completed and in progress--_ .....__.._..._............__l Not Completed a) a) a, o a) E o 0 MINNESOTA GREENSTEP CITIES BEST PRACTICES, ACTION OPTIONS AND I PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS i 1(3) Prominently identify on the city's web site mobility options for hire: transit services; paratransit/Dial -A -Ride; cab service(s); 1 _..__._!rental car agency(s), 1(4) Promote carpooling or on- demand 1 lridesharing among community members, city employees, businesses, high schools and institutions of higher education. I 1(5) Launch an eWorkPlace Minnesota I campaign, working with business and transportation management organizations, or help bring telemedicine technology to a local health care provider. (6) Accomplish at least one of the I !following, working with other units of local ___ as needed: j _ I a. Add/expand transit service. i 1 b. Launch a car sharing or bike sharing I i business. _..... 13. City Fleets 1 (1) Decrease use of city vehicles by I means such as trip bundling, video I conferencing, carpooling and financial incentives for efficient vehicle use. • (2) Right -size the city fleet with the most fuel-efficient vehicles that are of an optimal size/capacity for their intended functions. 617 Notes leuol3d0 GreenStep City Requirements for Category A City 1 If implementing this BP, complete at least TWO actions. City staff / department or entity responsible -----,,4 as a)[ L 01 0 0 in as T.... CD co o CO •4 Ft n • • • For each action, describe In a few sentences all relevant 1 implementation steps the city has taken -- All Eagan employees are subjected to the 'no idling policy'. All unattended vehicle must be shut off. Eagan follows the manufacturer's recommendations for preventative maintenance. Gas mileage is also tracked and documented to make necessary corrections as the results decline. The City uses a Vehicle Conditioning Index to maximize usage of vehicles before they are replaced. The City has a pilot program underway in which two hybrid vehicles have been purchased to monitor effectiveness and cost - saving_ potential. ^ I Mandated biodiesel state requirement of 5% (B5). The City has downsized numerous vehicles to gain better fuel efficiency. For example, the fire department has replaced large, SUVs with smaller, Ford Escapes, which provide enough room for necessary equipment, while increasing fuel economy. bicycle utilization for property and trail maintenance crews I ISD 196 in Eagan uses a computerized route optimizer for their school bus fleets to optimize the distances traveled. i Three tiers for school starting times are also used to reduce the sizes of fleets and buses on the roads. A no idling policy is also set to ensure buses are not running while unintended. Implementation Status: Completed? In progress? Planned? Nothing to date? i Completed � pa ;aldu:io pa;aldwo3 Completed Not Completed I I { Completed Completed Not Completed ___________I 'Completed _ ..._.....___� 01 151 E I o I 0 ' - 13 0 if> " 0 0 pataidW00 3ON MINNESOTA GREENSTEP CITIES BEST !PRACTICES, ACTION OPTIONS AND PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS f (3) Document the phase -in of at least ;three of the following in vehicle contracts, for or local transit fleets, or for school /park board fleets: a. Monthly monitoring and reporting for 'staff on fuel usage and costs. b. Training for more efficient driving, ._. _._. !including anti-idling behavior /rules . ........................I c. Maintenance schedules that optimize vvehicle life and fuel efficiency. Id. Alternative fuel vehicles. e. Charging stations (solar or wind powered) for plug -in hybrid and full electric !vehicles. If. Lower - carbon fuels (such as 'biodiesel, straight vegetable oil) using a life- cycle calculation. I ig. More fuel - efficient vehicles. I h. Car share vehicles owned by a third __ ....__party to decrease fleet_ size_ ____ __ ._......__........... • I i 1(5) Document that the local school bus fleet has optimized routes, start times, boundaries, vehicles, bus fuels, and driver `actions to decrease fuel use. 1 (6) Participate in Project GreenFleet to I retrofit or replace diesel engines, or to install !auxiliary power units that reduce truck and if bus idling. ...... 14. Demand -Side Travel Planning Notes i 1 GreenStep City Requirements for Category A City Any THREE additional best practices City staff / department or entity responsible Implementation Status: Completed? ! In progress? i Planned? Nothing to I For each action, describe in a few sentences all relevant date? I implementation steps the city has taken The City has parking minimum standards that have appropriate tiers based on the type of development. The City does not have parking maximums in pedestrian or transit oriented areas, but it does focus on shared and cross parking opportunities where adjacencies and proximities of complementary uses support it. Not Completed__ j ! Not Completed E I f I No Completed t _ I Not Completed INot Completed Not Completed INot Completed `MINNESOTA GREENSTEP CITIES BEST I PRACTICES, ACTION OPTIONS AND PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS ;(1) In development standards, right -size !parking minimum standards and add parking !maximums in pedestrian - friendly or transit- ! I served areas. ; (2) For cities with regular transit service, require or provide incentives for the siting of I retail services at transit/density nodes. 1(3) For cities with regular transit service, I require or provide incentives for the siting of h density housing at transit/density nodes. ' I (4) Incorporate demand -side transportation strategies into development I regulations, adopting, with modifications as necessary, at least one of the following from , Minnesota's 2009 Updated Model ;Ordinances for Sustainable Development: a. Travel Demand Management Performance Standard lb. Transit - oriented Development !Ordinance I (5) Document that a development project cert under the LEED for Neighborhood 1 Development program and is awarded at least one of the following credits: ;a. Transportation Demand Management. b. Housing and Jobs Proximity. I I From among all the best practices (1 - 28), the "floating BP" requirement: ;TOTAL BEST PRACTICES IMPLEMENTED TO I BE RECOGNIZED AS A STEP 3 GREENSTEP CITY 9' • • , • apprx. 1,736,396 sq. ft • • CITY OF EAGAN 4*. Lead Nonattainment Area Date: 11 /17/2010 City of Baran .Thism is furintonneumel purposes only This map simplifies MPCA end EPA technical elrmodelingmaps. Those agencies have jurisdiction over atrsunny. • Parcels Included in Lead NonattalnmentArea Local Roads ossocoHighways — I — t Railroad ' "" Lakes • HILLSIDE:'. ; • Cr. •I • HILLSIDE'• .' '• • :... Q •, RIVE ,. .. • • +'' • • 1• • .'. , •ANKEE • i•: . DOODLE }`•: ' • OPPERMAN ` ' DR. • 1 Inch = 574 feet • Hid i•• • Dm; • ' RQADi • • • o ob December 1, 2010 Tom Garrison Communications Director City of Eagan 3830 Pilot Knob Road Eagan, MN 55122 Dear Mr. Garrison, The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) has reviewed the data and information on the Gopher site and find that the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) and Gopher are taking appropriate steps to bring Gopher into compliance with the new National Ambient Air Quality Standard ( NAAQS) (as noted in my email of 11/19/2010). The new NAAQS is policy based on protection of health and the environment, technical and financial considerations; as well as other societal interests. A quick review of the impact of the new NAAQS on health suggests that: ▪ the new NAAQS is substantially more protective of human health than previous regulations; ▪ over the last 25 years or so lead levels in air have been significantly reduced — in large part because of the removal of lead (tetraethyl lead) from gasoline; a measurement of subtle health effects from lead exposure to a community are extremely difficult and not always successful — and the measurement of health effects in individuals exposed to lead levels near the NAAQS are not possible; . ▪ however, generally from a health perspective, less exposure to lead is better. In response to your question about the need for a MDH Health Consultation on our review; a Health Consultation is a technical report on the potential health impacts of a facility or a hazardous waste site on a community. A Health Consultation would explain, in detail, the information summarized above — along with the scientific basis of the assumptions, calculations and conclusions. It would provide you and your community with additional information and site - specific review of health- related issues. However, it is usually used to help communities, the MPCA or other agencies make decisions — and it is not clear that your situation requires any community decision at this time. In addition, consider that if you find a need for a Health Consultation in the future, we can always begin one then. If you want to discuss this further, please give me a call. Regards, Carl Herbrandson, PhD Toxicologist, Minnesota Department of Health POBox 64975, St. Paul, MN 55164 -0975 Protecting, maintaining and improving the health of all Minnesotans 651- 201 -4906 carl.herbrandson@state.mn.us General Information: 651- 201 -5000 • Toll-free: 888-345-0823 • TTY: 651-201-5797 • www.health.state.mn.us An equal opportunity employer lot City of Eagan Website, November 17, 2010 MPCA Reassures Residents Regarding Lead Concerns The City of Eagan has received several inq uiries from residents and businesses concerned about a new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency declaration that a portion of Eagan is among 16 areas nationwide identified that have too much lead in the air. The declaration of non-attainment comes because of an area around Gopher Resource, Lig., that was standards of� 30 �mt|dmnUOed|n2OO8 meeting and stringent air quality years Theconmpon�|anobedotHi 9 and Yankee Doodle Road w batteries. For the most per� the concern ' th of Highway 14 pnodominonUytnthoGopherResou,nepropertyUoo|[ The City, which was not notified In advance of the March 16 declaration by the EPA, received the following additional clarification this m mnin from Minnesota Pollution Control Agency officials: Gopher Resources Corporation nonm�aKnmmmntdesigma�on --- ��^� from the MPCA, the EPA has doaignab�dan area around <�opher "�aaed000r�non)mendaUon rn e . . , Resources Corporation (GRC) In Eagan as not meeting the federal air quality standard for|uod. " The designation |o not due b` increases in emissions —\n fact GRC'm emissions have dropped |nthm past year but rather to a ten-fold decrease in the national lead standard that EPA issued in October 2006, which lowered the threshold for attainment. • EPA strengthened the standard because new scientific evidence from health studies shows that adverse effects can occur at much lower levels of lead in the body than previously thought. • For ch of th aot year, Gopher Resources has hit the lower standard; but because emissions are averaged over a three-year period, an area surrounding the plant, which recycles hazardous waste from lead batteries, is still found to be above the standard. • Predictive computer modeling of air emissions from the facility shows that ambient air in nearby residential areas would meet the new revised standard for lead, based on monthly maximum averaging. There are two air monitors on the site, one located north of the facility and the other near Highway 149 and Yankee Doodle Road. • GRC has undertaken actions to reduce its emissions and has cooperated with the MPCA. The designation the EPA requires the facility to be in compliance with the new federal lead standard by December 2015. The ' of Eagan received the following additiona comments from Stephen Yates, Environmenta Health & Safety Manager for Gopher Resources, which stated, In part: November 16, 2010 UPDATE from GOPHER RESOURCE, LLC. In the last two years, Gopher Resources has t more than $2.3 million on additional pollution control equipment, and has ordered and committed another $300,000 worth of equipment for additional state-of- the-art high efficiency controls to replace an existing wet scrubber and maintenance shop hood. Gopher Resources is committed to meeting this new ambient limit well before the 2016 deadline and the monitoring results since start-up of the pollution control equipment confirms that the improvements to- date have had a significant impact on the monitors. In October 2008, the EPA dropped the National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for lead from 1.5 micrograms per cubic meter averaged on a quarterly basis to 0.15 micrograms per cubic meter based on a rolling 3-month average which would go into effect in 2016. Prior to that 2016 date, State's were required to identify areas with monitoring data that would be considered in "nonattainment using the new 0.15 level" using past monitoring history. The State's were also required to assess potential lead sources that did not have monitoring data and install monitors near them to determine if there were issues with meeting the 0.15 limit. The State's then reported this information to the EPA in 2009 and were to follow up with plans on how they intend to insure that the new 2016 limit will be met by these sources. The EPA reviewed comments from the State's and were to designate nonattainment areas for lead (using the past 3 years worth of data) by the end of October 2010. This was released by the EPA on November 16th which resulted in todays Tribune article. The ambient monitors located near Gopher were averaging less than half of the 1.5 ug/M3 limit in the 3- year time period that the EPA used for determination of attainment. However, they would not meet this new 2016 limit so in late 2008, Gopher contracted with a consultant to help identify potential sources of fugitives from the facility, coordinate additional air monitoring to veri6/ these levels, and then used that data to come up with a plan to meet the 0.15 ug/M3 limit by 2016. The consultants final report prioritized these potential sources, developed a plan on capturing these sources, and then did the design work on the control equipment. An additional two Donaldson cartridge units were ordered to increase the negative pressure on the processing building from 170,000 cfm to slightly over 300,000 cfm along with a new stack, duct work, additional hooding/enclosures & electrical controls to provide additional ventilation to the specific areas of the building identified in the report. The State allowed Gopher to fast track the process and construction began in March 2009 and completed in August 2009. The perimeter numbers immediately dropped and the initial numbers indicate that Gopher will be able to meet the 0.15 ug/M3 limit sooner than the 2016 deadline. There are a few other projects that were identified in the study as a lower priority which Gopher is currently working on. One involves replacing the battery breaker wet scrubber with a higher efficiency scrubber (install scheduled for the 1st qtr. of 2011) and a HEPA ventilation hood system for the maintenance shop (same installation time frame) which would be used intermittently when they need to perform hot work on any equipment that may contain lead on it. Gopher is confident that the previously implemented control equipment and the 1st qtr. 2011 inotaVowil/ insure that the 2016 deadline will be met much earlier. The EPA nonattainment designation will remain in effect until there is three years' worth of satisfactory compliance history. Any tiomu should be directed to Stephen Yates (steve. vates or John Tapper (iohn.hapoeriMoncmn.con)orby calling D51-4O5-22O[L Additional information Please note that the Minnesota Polluti ntnd Agency andUleU.G.EnvironmentoPnotecUon Agency are th rd regulatory bod|smwdihauthoritynvwrairbornopoUubonta.TheCdypfEagonmAUehore additional Information it receives ^For information about lead and non-attainment areas, contact Ralph Pribble, Public Information Office of the MPCA at 1) 757-2657. • For information or concerns about the health effects of lead, contact Dan Symonik at the Minnesota Department of Health, (651) 201-4928 or daniel.symonikstate.mn.us. According to one media report, not yet confirmed, the Dept. of Health may conduct its own investigation. That same report indicated a 4.5 mile zone of Eagan was in the non-attainment arera. That is incorrect. Technically, the EPA designates a wider area than the problem itself to be extremely conservative, however, according to the MPCA they have absolutely no readings in residential areas or outside of the Yankee Doodle/149 corner that do not comply with the newer, stricter lstandards, which the company has until late 2015 or early 2016 to comply with. w Read the Star Tribune story « Read the Pioneer Pres story O MPCA 2009 Report ) 03 2010 Community Survey—Responses to Questions Pertaining Recycling and Energy/Environment I would like to read you a list of a few city services. For each one, please tell me whether you would rate the quality of the service as excellent, good, only fair, or poor? (ROTATE) EXCL GOOD FAIR POOR DK/R 33. Recycling? 28% 62% 5% 1% 4% 52. Do you currently recycle? YES 94% NO 6% DON'T KNOW/REFUSED 0% IF "YES," ASK: (n=376) 53. Are there any changes or improvements in the curbside recycling program you would like to see? IF "NO," ASK: (n=24) NO, 82%; TAKE MORE ITEMS, 6%; LARGER BINS, 2%; WEEKLY PICK-UP, 3%; LOWER FEES, 2%; SCATTERED, 5%. 54. Why don't you currently recycle? NOT ENOUGH ITEMS, 17%; NOT INTERESTED, 42%; LIVE IN APARTMENTS, 33%; TOO BUSY, 8%. 55. What do you or members of your GARBAGE 6% household do with waste items, RECYCLING ZONE 67% such as paint, fluorescent or CFL STORE IN HOME/GARAGE 4% bulbs, batteries and pesticides --DONATE 0% do you put them in the regular VARIES 4% garbage, bring them to the Recycl-NO WASTE OF THAT TYPE.15% ing Zone, store them in your home TAKE TO ANOTHER FACIL 3% or garage, donate them, or do SOMETHING ELSE 1% something else? (IF "ELSE," ASK:) DON'T KNOW/REFUSED 1% What is that? 56. What do you or members of your GARBAGE 4% household do with old computers RECYCLING ZONE 54% and televisions -- do you put STORE IN HOME/GARAGE...5% in the regular garbage, bring DONATE 8% to the Recycling Zone, store them VARIES 2% in your home or garage, donate them, or do something else? (IF "ELSE," ASK:) What is that? With increasing energy prices, I would like to read you a list of energy conservation practices. For each one, please tell me if your household has undertaken the practice during the past few years. (ROTATE) 84. Adjust the thermostats in your home to reduce the amount of energy used for heating and cooling? 85. Walk or bicycle more often instead of using a vehicle? 86. Car pool or use public transportation more often? icE NO WASTE OF THAT TYPE.21% TAKE TO ANOTHER FACIL 3% SOMETHING ELSE 1% DON'T KNOW/REFUSED 0% BEST BUY 3% YES NO DKR 96% 4% 0% 43% 57% 0% 30% 70% 0% Part III. Application for Local Negotiated Initiative Funding Type of LNIF project: "Develop waste reduction, reuse and recycling education/communication program for businesses." Cost: $14,675 Description of Project: The work proposed within this LNIF project area will be focused on a two -step recycling education program for local businesses: 1) a green team workshop, and 2) a sustainability audit program. This effort comes from the desire to keep recyclable materials out of the waste stream, conserve natural resources, increase recycling participation and remain on -track with county plans /goals. The proposed education program will be open to all businesses located in Apple Valley, Burnsville and Eagan. The proposed work will utilize the connections of our well - established ARROW business program, as well as capitalizing on new connections and partnerships. There will be an initial research and collaboration stage to work with the following partners to determine logistics for this program: Great Plains Institute, the local Chambers of Commerce, the local utility companies, Center for Energy & Environment, and Minnesota Waste Wise. The first stage of the proposed LNIF project is the hosting of a green team workshop. A "green team" is a group of employees that develops and implements sustainable practices for their organization, raises sustainability awareness of employees, provides employees with the training and tools to accomplish sustainability projects, and facilitates effective sustainability networking between all departments and other groups. The plan for a green team workshop was the result of a 2010 business roundtable hosted by Great Plains Institute, the City of Apple Valley and the Apple Valley Chamber of Commerce for representatives from two dozen Apple Valley businesses. These community business leaders expressed that green teams are needed for implementing and sustaining environmentally - preferable business practices. The workshop itself will be hosted in partnership with Great Plains Institute and the area Chambers of Commerce, who will coordinate planning for publicity and green team experts, among other responsibilities. A maximum of one hundred attendees will be presented with the benefits of having a green team, local success stories, and best practices for implementing and sustaining such a team for their organizations. The second part of the proposed education program is to plan and execute "sustainability audits" of a maximum of fifteen local businesses. The plan for these audits was a result of the aforementioned Great Plains Institute business roundtable in Apple Valley, as well as discussions between Dakota Valley Recycling staff and local utility companies. Community business 10—co Continued -› leaders expressed the need to be connected with green programs, incentives and rebates. Utilities expressed the need to connect with businesses looking for energy efficiency opportunities. The sustainability audits themselves would be implemented in partnership with Minnesota WasteWise and each community's respective utility companies. Businesses that choose to sign up for a sustainability audit will have a Dakota Valley Recycling staff visit that business to look for improvements in the areas of recycling, waste reduction and environmentally - preferable purchasing. After the audit, the business contact will meet with Dakota Valley Recycling staff for a consultation that will include a "sustainability starter kit" for implementing a recycling program and trying sustainable office products such as recycled- content printer paper and coffee cups made from renewable materials. Additionally, the organization's utility company would do an energy audit. Long - Term Impact: Green teams, once established, strive to improve their organization's green practices over the short-term and long -term. Providing a green team workshop for local businesses will give these businesses the tools to not only implement sustainable practices that will be effective for their organizations' individual needs, but also allow them to sustain these practices —and develop new ones —after the proposed LNIF project has been completed. Businesses that start green teams will bring their employees' individual skills and passion into a collective for changing behavior among their peers over time. The sustainability audits will also offer a number of positive impacts in the long -term. For businesses that are currently ARROW members, this program provides an opportunity to facilitate the expansion of current policies with the best practices in recycling and environmentally - preferable purchasing. Businesses that are not ARROW members will also gain these best practices for their business, as well as becoming familiar with the ARROW program, ideally applying for membership. Because they will focus on practical, effective, low- and no- cost changes, these sustainability audits will translate directly into action that will lead to increased recycling rates at participating businesses. Both the green team workshop and the sustainability audits will strengthen the message that responsible environmental practices are economically viable and practical for businesses in Dakota County. The 2005 Solid Waste Master Plan lays out the goal to "reinvigorate recycling" in the metropolitan area. Businesses face specific barriers to recycling that the proposed green team workshop will address with the resources and tools it will provide. In addition, one of Dakota County's solid waste management goals is to "promote source /waste reduction and reuse in the [...] private sector." The sustainability audits will focus specifically on promoting this topic to participating businesses, with an emphasis on long -term policy change. Continued - Work Plan: ELI Business Education Program: Green Team Workshop and Sustainability Audits for Local Businesses • Great Plains Institute • Apple Valley/ Eagan/ Burnsville Chambers of Commerce • Dakota Electric Association • Xcel Energy • Center for Energy and Environment • Other utility companies, as applicable • MNTAP • MN WasteWise • ARROW • Research & Collaboration with partners and resources • Host Green Team Workshop for businesses • Determine businesses for sustainability audits • Complete up to 15 sustainability audits including follow up consultation Total timeline: approx 10 -12 months • Green Team Workshop: $500 • Sustainability audits: $5800 • Publicity: $3960 • Supervisory and DVR staff time: $1000 • Planning intern (approx 10 hr /wk $3415 Total: $14675 Pre - measurements: • Outcomes of Great Plains Institute business round- tables • Initial visits to businesses for sustainability audits Post - measurements: Participation at Green Team workshop Number of businesses that form green teams Post - workshop surveys Improvements made due to sustainability audits Number of new ARROW members