Sustainable Development Code and Energy Efficiency/Conservation Strategy
Salt Lake City, Utah
Clarion Associates is currently assisting Salt Lake City in incorporating sustainability provisions into Salt Lake City’s zoning and subdivision ordinances, a high priority goal since the election of the city’s new mayor, Ralph Becker. The firm is also working with the Office of Sustainability on an overall energy efficiency/conservation strategy.
Some of the changes this effort will accomplish include:
- Creating incentives for compact, mixed-use development patterns that reduce the need to drive to work thereby shrinking greenhouse gas emissions;
- Removing barriers to solar and other alternative energy sources that decrease reliance on foreign oil and help cut greenhouse gas emissions;
- Promoting alternative means of transportation like bicycling and walking that can improve community health while helping reduce air pollution;
- Protecting trees that absorb greenhouse gases and reduce storm water runoff and pollutants, and
- Encouraging water-conserving landscaping.