Sustainable DC Vision Plan 2.2

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A VISION FOR ASUSTAINABLE DC


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From mayor

Vincent c. Gray

This is a uniue time or our

city. Ater decades o population

decline, we have seen a solid

decade o population growth

as people discover all that the

District o Columbia has to oer. In the 15 months ater

the 2010 Census, more than 16,000 new residents

moved to the District, and all signs point to escalating

growth or years to come. As our population expands,

we have an important decision to mae. We can tae

decisive action now to ensure that our citiens

particularly the most vulnerable among usbeneft

rom increasing innovation and amenities, a broader

tax base, a growing and diversifed economy, and

a wide range o new and accessible jobs. Or we

can ignore this opportunity, and allow historic

gaps in education, income, housing and access to

transportation to urther divide our city.

The choice is clear. I believe we must plan or a citythat is sustainablenot just environmentally, but

economically and socially as well. We must continue

our investments to revitalie neighborhoods, expand

transportation choices, better our health, restore

rivers and pars, and improve our schools. By setting

ambitious goals or our built environment, climate,

energy, ood, nature, transportation, waste, water,

and the green economy, we strengthen the Districts

commitment to the core values o uality o lie,

economic growth, and eual access to opportunity.

With our vision or a sustainable city, and strategic

action to achieve our goals, we will be ready to attract

employers, investment, and job growth in existing

felds and emerging sectors o a green and competitive

economy. We also will ensure that the District is a

healthier, more livable place or our amilies to grow

and thrive or generations to come.

With this in mind, I share my vision or a more

sustainable utureone that I hope you will

embrace, and that we can all wor together to

achieve: In just one generation20 yearsthe

District o Columbia will be the healthiest,

greenest, and most livable city in the UnitedStates. An international destination or people

and investment, the District will be a model o

innovative policies and practices that improve

quality o lie and economic opportunity. We

will demonstrate how enhancing our natural

and built environments, investing in a diverse

clean economy, and reducing disparities among

residents can create an educated, equitable and

prosperous society.

It is critical that we start with a vision, but our

wor is ar rom over. Together, we must develop

an implementation plan that ensures we reach our

goals. I as or your support and input as we wor

with community volunteers, District agencies, and

staeholders citywide to crat detailed goals, actions,

timelines, and measures o progress. Help us reach

out to amily, riends, neighbors, and colleagues or

input and ideas. We need to now what you thin o

this vision and how we all can help turn it into reality.

Vincent C. Gray

Mayor, District o Columbia


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In just one generation20 yearsthe District o Columbia will be

the healthiest, greenest, and most livable city in the United States.

An international destination or people and investment, the District

will be a model o innovative policies and practices that improve

uality o lie and economic opportunity. We will demonstrate how

enhancing our natural and built environments, investing in a diverse

clean economy, and reducing disparities among residents can

create an educated, euitable and prosperous society.


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SUSTAINABLEDC GOALSFor 2032

JOBS: Increase by 5 times the number o jobs providing green goods and services

HEALTH: Cut citywide obesity rate by 50%

BUILT ENVIRONMENT: Attract and retain 250,000new and existing residents

CLIMATE: Cut citywide greenhouse gas emissions by 50%

ENERGY: Cut citywide energy consumption by 50%; Increase use o renewable

energy to 50%


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FOOD: Bring locally-grown ood within a uarter mile o75% o the population

NATURE: Cover 40% o the District with a healthy tree canopy: Ensure

100% o residents are within a 10-minute wal o a natural space

TRANSPORTATION: Mae75% o all trips by waling, biing, or transit

WASTE: Achieve zERO waste by consuming less and reusing everything else

WATER: Mae100% o District waterways fshable and swimmable; Use

75%o our landscape to flter or capture rainwater or reuse

GREEN ECONOMY: Develop 3 times as many small District-based businesses;Cut city-wide unemployment by 50%


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THE DISTRICT ISA LEADERThis vision is built on our progress in realiing the 2006

Comprehensive Plans vision o growing an inclusive city, and the

Anacostia Waterront Initiatives vision o revitaliing the Anacostia

waterront to unite the city around a restored river. Businesses,

government, and community members citywide have already

distinguished the District as a national leader in many areas o

urban sustainability, laying a oundation to achieve our ambitious

goals. Here are some examples o the citys recent achievements:

200+ LEED-CERTIFIED AND ENERGY STAR-CERTIFIED GREEN BUILDINGS

3 FOLD INCREASE IN USE OF RENEWABLE ENERGY SINCE 2004

7,600ACRES OF PARkS AND OPEN SPACEMORE PER CAPITA THAN ANY CITY OF OUR SIzE

4% OF THE CITYS JOBS IN GREEN GOODS AND SERVICES2ND HIGHEST OF ANY STATE

55MILES OF BIkE LANES AND FACILITIES


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WHAT DOESSUSTAINABILITy MEAN

FOR yOU?Sustainability means balancing the demands o economic

development, environmental protection, and community euity

across our city. Ultimately, sustainability means good things or

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MANy VOICES,ONE PLANSustainable DC has engaged people across the city to raise

awareness, gather input, and tap into the wisdom and nowledgeo community members, institutions, and organiations. The

plan has beneited greatly rom this community input, but the

conversation must continue, and reach an even broader audience

across our neighborhoods, schools, and businesses.

Woring Groups:Over the winter o 2011-2012, hundreds o dedicated

volunteers in nine woring groups met every other

weekto identiy and prioritie potential goals and

actions within the topics o built environment,

climate, energy, ood, nature, transportation,

waste, water, and the green economy.

Green Cabinet:

Convened by the Mayor, led by the City Administrator,

and composed o agency directors and key

government ofcials, this group is determining

how District agencies can innovate to incorporate

sustainable practices while advancing their core

missions.

Green Ribbon Committee:

The Mayor convened this committee o civic leaders

rom the public, private, and non-proft sectors, in

order to tae a big picture view o plan development,

as they review the plan rom a broad range o

community perspectives.

Past presentations, meeting notes, and proposed

sustainability measures are available on the web at

www.sustainable.dc.gov.

With the release o this Sustainable DC vision, we

move into the next phase o developing a detailed

implementation plan. A drat implementation plan will

be released or public review in summer 2012 and a

fnal plan is expected in all 2012.


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By the numBers

125PUBLIC MEETINGS AND EVENTS

1,600REGISTERED EMAIL FOLLOWERS

1,100ACTIVE WEBSITE USERS

400+UNIqUE SUGGESTIONS

440

ATTENDEES FOR MAYORS kICk-OFF

9WORkING GROUPS

700PARTICIPANTS

900

WORkING GROUP GOALS AND ACTIONS


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EARLy COMMITMENT:makinG a Down PaymentAlthough we are in the midst o planning, our city is already

woring hard to become more sustainable. Across the District

government, and with the help o the citys institutions, businesses,

community groups, and individuals, progress continues toward a

more sustainable city.

The District and development partners are pushing the boundaries o sustainable technology and design or

buildings and neighborhoods. We are updating regulations and policies to mae our buildings healthier, our water

cleaner, and our energy use more efcient and renewable.

Private developers and building owners put the District at the top o national rankings or LEED and ENERGY

STAR buildings. The city has more than 18,000 Capital Bikeshare members taing 100,000 trips per

month by bie, eeping hundreds o cars o the road. Thousands o homes in the RiverSmart Homes

program control stormwater, improving the health o our streams and rivers. More than 50 embassies signed

a sustainability pledge with Mayor Gray to help create a more sustainable District. And nine District-based

universities signed a sustainability pledge covering their buildings and operations. We are just getting started as

a city, but there is tremendous momentum toward our goal o becoming the most sustainable city in the country.


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ProPoseD sustainaBle Dc leGislation

As a urther down payment on a sustainable uture, Mayor Gray

is putting orth a pacage o initial legislation that touches on the

economy, social euity and environmental health components o

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JOBSThe District is the economic engine o the Washington metropolitan

region, drawing new businesses and new jobs. As a city that is both

locally and globally competitive, the District must be prepared to

innovate and change to remain attractive to potential employers.

Overall, our city has an unemployment rate o just under

10%. However, it ranges rom as low as 2% in Ward

3 to as high as 24% in Ward 8. With more than 50,000

unflled jobs currently available across the city, there

is a clear disconnect between the wororce and the

sills and training reuired by these positions. There is atremendous opportunity to train and employ worers in

the Districts growing green economy.

Each component o this vision should help generate

and maintain uality jobs or our residents, while

simultaneously addressing the training reuired tosucceed in those positions. For each goal or action

suggested, there is the opportunity to create new jobs at

every rung on the career ladder.

our Goal For 2032:

INCREASE FIVE-FOLD THE NUMBER OFJOBS ASSOCIATED WITH GREEN GOODS

AND SERVICES INCLUDING TRANSIT,

STORMWATER, MANAGEMENT, ENERGyEFFICIENCy, URBAN AGRICULTURE, ANDWASTE RECyCLING AND REUSE, WHILEPREPARING THE DISTRICT WORkFORCE

THROUGH EDUCATION AND TRAINING.

SHORT-TERM ACTION:

Create incubators to support the development and

success o new green industries.

MID-TERM ACTION:

Stimulate a supportive environment or growing green

industries through streamlined regulations, new sources

o fnancial capital, and incentives or private investment

in under served marets.

LONG-TERM ACTION:

Develop training pipelines or green careers at dierent

sill levels rom Pre-k to 12 through higher education.

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HEALTHWherever we live, or whatever we do or a living, our health and

that o our amily matters prooundly. Today, we ace dierent

health challenges in dierent parts o our city. Overall, 15% o

deaths in the District arise rom poor diet and obesity, but residents

o Wards 5, 7, and 8 are much less liely to be o healthy weightand more liely to suer rom chronic diseases than residents o

other wards.

Current programs lie Live Well DC aim to improve this

situation, but the physical environment and access

to resh and healthy oods also impact public health.

Improvements in the citys air, water, buildings and

inrastructure can also contribute to good health. By

providing sae and easy transportation access, high

perormance buildings, opportunities to be physically

active, and access to local healthy oods, we mae the

District a healthier place to live, wor, and play.

our Goal For 2032:

CUT IN HALF THE CURRENT

22% CITyWIDE OBESITy RATE.

SHORT-TERM ACTION:

Cut in hal the 21% o people who do not participate in

some orm o physical activity on a monthly basis.

MID-TERM ACTION:

Eliminate lead exposure threats and the incidence o

children with elevated levels o lead in their blood.

LONG-TERM ACTION:

Improve air uality in the District, and cut in hal the

rate o childhood asthma.

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BUILT ENVIRONMENTBuilDinGs as eFFicient as they are healthy

Our buildings and neighborhoods will be vibrant, resilient, and

embody innovative practices that ensure high uality o lie, a

competitive economy, and respect or the natural environment.

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our Goal For 2032WE WILL ATTRACT AND RETAIN 250,000 NEWRESIDENTS AND IMPROVE qUALITy OF LIFE FORExISTING RESIDENTS IN TRANSIT-ORIENTED,WALkABLE, AND AFFORDABLE COMMUNITIES. ALL

NEW BUILDINGS WILL PRODUCE AS MUCH OR MOREENERGy THEy CONSUME; ExISTING BUILDINGS WILLBE RETROFITTED TO USE HALF AS MUCH ENERGy

AND WATER.

SHORT-TERM ACTION:

Reuire public disclosure o ENERGY STAR perormance or all private buildings o more than 25,000

suare eet, and mandate energy audits and improvement o poorly perorming buildings, with

disclosure o audit results to prospective buyers and tenants.

MID-TERM ACTION:

Rehabilitate all low-income housing to be green, healthy, and capable o meeting net ero

energy standards.

LONG-TERM ACTION:

Reuire all new buildings to be energy and carbon neutral or net positive energy producers.

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CLIMATEa city PrePareD For climate chanGe anD

a Post-carBon economy

Our city will minimie and oset its greenhouse gas emissions,

while adapting to climate change in ways that protect the most

vulnerable residents and create economic opportunity or all.

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our Goal For 2032REDUCE CITyWIDE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONSBy 50% (AND 80% By 2050) WHILE ADAPTING TO

THE HAzARDS OF CLIMATE CHANGE.

qUICk ACTION:

Adopt a Climate Action Plan that establishes emissions reduction targets or each emission source or

sector o the economy.

SHORT-TERM ACTION:

Create a set o interactive online tools such as calculators, online portals or orums that allow people

citywide to view and share GHG emission data, and to mae more inormed decisions.

LONG-TERM ACTION:

Create fnancial tools, such as a ee-and-dividend style carbon tax or a carbon beneft program, to

capture the true costs o products and services and to support climate protection programs.


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ENERGyreliaBle anD clean enerGy as a FounDation

For economic ProsPerity

Our city will be a beacon or energy eiciency, reliability, and

independence, and will lead the nation in the transition to

aordable, clean, and locally generated renewable energy.

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our Goal For 2032REDUCE ENERGy CONSUMPTION By 50% ANDINCREASE THE USE OF RENEWABLE ENERGy TO50%.

SHORT-TERM ACTION:

Reuire energy audits and disclosure or all buildings periodically and at the point o sale.

SHORT-TERM ACTION:

Replace all public street lighting and related inrastructure with efcient, energy-saving models.

MID-TERM ACTION:

Develop and implement a Clean Alternatives Technologies Standard (CATS) that shits reliance rom

coal-generated power sources to more renewable sources, using a timed phase-out to reduce by

60% electricity-driven carbon emissions.


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FOODa new urBan economic sector ProViDinG healthy,aFForDaBle FooD

District residents will be healthier and the local economy more

diverse, thans to eual access to a local, sel-sustaining ood

production and regional distribution system.

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our Goal For 2032GROW A FOOD CULTURE AROUND PROVIDING EqUALFOOD ACCESS, ENSURING LONGEVITy OF URBAN

AGRICULTURE, AND BRINGING LOCALLy GROWNFOOD WITHIN A qUARTER MILE OF 75% OF THE

POPULATION.

SHORT-TERM ACTION:

Ensure healthy ood access by expanding Double Dollars programs (i.e., WIC and SNAP) or resh

and healthy oods in armers marets citywide.

MID-TERM ACTION:

Ensure all residents are within one mile o a ull service grocery store.

LONG-TERM ACTION:

Dramatically expand local ood production by putting 20 additional acres o land under cultivation,

and produce or obtain 25% o District ood within a 100 mile-radius.


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NATUREPreserVinG Green sPaces anD connectinGPeoPle to nature

Our city will conserve and manage natural resources to enhance

biodiversity, improve uality o lie, and build peoples connection

to, understanding o, and appreciation or nature.

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our Goal For 2032COVER 40% OF THE DISTRICT WITH A HEALTHy

TREE CANOPy, AND PROVIDE PARk OR NATURALSPACES WITHIN A 10-MINUTE WALk OF ALLRESIDENTS.

SHORT-TERM ACTION:

Engage community members, especially in low-income and under served communities, to become

stewards o their local pars and natural spaces.

SHORT-TERM ACTION:

Incorporate an Environmental Literacy Plan into the curriculum or all District public schools.

LONG-TERM ACTION:

Ensure no urther loss o species and biodiversity by protecting habitats, strengthening native

populations o fsh, birds, and other wildlie, while controlling invasive species.


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TRANSPORTATIONtowarD a city that moVes you

Our city will create and sustain a system o accessible, convenient,

and resilient transportation options that improve mobility and

access, and enhance the uality o the Districts economic, social,

and natural resources.

why it mattersThe District o Columbia has a uniue transportation inrastructure, serving all inds o users. Each day, the

Districts population grows by 400,000 as people rom the region enter the city or wor, shopping, or

entertainment. At the same time, the city hosts 16 million tourists annually. For a city o just under 620,000

residents, thats a lot o extra people to transport in and out.

Transportation systems can use a huge amount o energy or moving people and goods, particularly i energy-

intensive cars and trucs are used. However, trains, buses, waling, and biing can have positive eects that go

ar beyond the much smaller environmental ootprint they create. Encouraging waling and biing can reduce

obesity rates and prevent chronic health problems by increasing daily physical activity. Reducing car emissions

will help to improve air uality, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and relieve pressure on road inrastructure.

Increasing transportation options also helps to uicly disperse people in the event o an emergency, improves

mobility or the very young, the elderly and the disabled, and reduces the cost o or need to own personal

vehicles, saving money both or households and costly inrastructure. Unortunately, not all areas o the city

are well served by transit and many parts o the District remain hard to reach and travel through. Focusing

sustainability eorts on transportation inrastructure and services will be as important or social euity and

public health as or economic security and climate stability.


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our Goal For 2032AT LEAST 75% OF ALL TRIPS ORIGINATING IN THECITy WILL BE By WALkING, BIkING, TRANSIT, OROTHER CLEAN TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVE.

SHORT-TERM ACTION:Improve bicycle and pedestrian connectivity through a citywide networ o 80 miles o bie lanes,

prioritiing east o the Anacostia River, and completing the Metropolitan Branch Trail.

SHORT-TERM ACTION:

Reduce building paring minimums and increase the availability o on-street paring through citywide

perormance paring districts.

LONG-TERM ACTION:

Prioritie the expansion and enhancement o transit services, and complete at least 37 miles o new

streetcar or premium bus service, lie Circulator or WMATA express.


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WASTEturninG waste into economic oPPortunity

Our city will eliminate solid waste by reducing the amount o waste

we generate, and reusing or recycling all other materials or their

economic value in manuacturing, energy production, or agriculture.

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our Goal For 2032ACHIEVE zERO WASTE By PRODUCING LESS WASTEIN THE FIRST PLACE AND CAPTURING VALUE FROMEVERyTHING ELSE THROUGH REUSE, RECyCLING,COMPOSTING AND ENERGy PRODUCTION.

qUICk ACTION:

Study the easibility o waste-to-energy and waste conversion technologies.

SHORT-TERM ACTION:

Expand the number o public recycling and litter receptacles, concentrating on neighborhoods with

large amounts o litter.

MID-TERM ACTION:

Provide all households with a three-trac collection process (landfll, recyclables, compostable

material) and implement other strategies to encourage recycling and composting.


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WATERclean riVers anD a Green lanDscaPe

Our water resourcesall water alling in and lowing through the

Districtwill be clean and ully accessible to support good health,

thriving ecosystems, and an innovative economy.

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our Goal For 2032MAkE THE ANACOSTIA RIVER, ROCk CREEk,POTOMAC RIVER, AND ALL DISTRICT WATERWAySFISHABLE AND SWIMMABLE, AND 75% OF TOCITyS LANDSCAPE ABLE TO NATURALLy FILTER OR

CAPTURE RAINWATER FOR REUSE.

SHORT-TERM ACTION:

Install 1.5 million suare eet o green roos in the District.

MID-TERM ACTION:

Increase the number o green inrastructure jobs by 50% by expanding the amount o stormwater

retention and infltration inrastructure by 100%.

LONG-TERM ACTION:

Double the area o wetlands to aid in the fltration o stormwater runo and to create buers or

waterways and habitat corridors or wildlie.


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our Goal For 2032TRIPLE THE NUMBER OF SMALL DISTRICT-BASEDBUSINESSES, INCLUDING LOCAL RETAIL; INCREASE

THE VALUE OF THE DISTRICTS ExPORTS OFGOODS AND SERVICES TEN-FOLD; AND REDUCE

UNEMPLOyMENT By HALF.

qUICk ACTION:

Pass legislation that recognies corporations that meet rigorous independent social and

environmental perormance standards.

SHORT-TERM ACTION:

District government will implement a green procurement program that achieves at least 50%

procurement or green goods and services.

SHORT-TERM ACTION:

Retool our wororce development system to increase training opportunities or District residents and

prepare them or jobs associated with green goods and services.

MID-TERM ACTION:

Universities, hospitality, and healthcare industries will pool their collective purchasing power to buy

sustainable goods and services rom local, cooperatively-owned businesses.


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This vision plan is intended to provide a picture o what is possible in the District o Columbia,what we can achieve or this and uture generations, and wh we need to act now. Over the

next six months, we will use the recommendations rom the public, our woring groups, civic leaders,

agencies, and consultants to design an implementation strategy to achieve the ambitious sustainability

vision and goals we have set or our city.

To reap the benefts or our environment, communit, and econom, we must build on

current successes and lay the groundwor or new action. We will engage everyone to help achieve a

sustainable, prosperous, abundant, and livable uture or the city and its citiens. We are a city that is

leading the nation in sustainable practices, and we should tae pride in, and build on, that act.

We encourage you to sta active in the Sustainable DC process and engage others in

your community to be a part o this critical initiative to mae the District o Columbia the healthiest,

most economicall vibrant and sustainable cit in the nation.

We want our comments and eedbac. Please contact us at [email protected] or(202) 442-8809 or visit www.sustainable.dc.gov

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Sustainable DC Vision Plan 2.2

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