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We can't Recycle our way out of Climate Change. We can't give up on it but we have to Recycle Right! Refuse, Reduce and Reuse is the way forward. "It's not Waste, until  it's wasted!"

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We can't Recycle our way out of Climate Change. We can't give up on it but we have to Recycle Right! Refuse, Reduce and Reuse is the way forward. "It's not Waste, until  it's wasted!"

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Less Trash from take out. Would be great if every business let you fill your own cup or container or at least participated in Cup/Container SWAP system.

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Less Trash from take out. Would be great if every business let you fill your own cup or container or at least participated in Cup/Container SWAP system.

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Takeout creates a lot of trash. It doesn't have to.

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Expand on Reuse and Repair opportunities. Maybe a "Lending Library" and Fix It clinics.

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Expand on Reuse and Repair opportunities. Maybe a "Lending Library" and Fix It clinics.

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More Food Rescue. Lets keep edible food out of the landfill or even the Compost Bin by reducing waste, better preservation and getting it into the hands of those who can use it.

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More Food Rescue. Lets keep edible food out of the landfill or even the Compost Bin by reducing waste, better preservation and getting it into the hands of those who can use it.

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COVID-19 UPDATE | The City is coordinating closely with our public health officials at the Santa Cruz County Health Department to prevent the further spread COVID-19. In an effort to protect you and our community, changes and measures have been adopted in daily operations and activities. For further details please visit the City's Response to COVID-19 site.

REFUSE - To waste food

RETHINK - Your habits

REDUCE - What you toss

REUSE- Donate safely

RECYCLE - Create something new

Compost ROT - close to home

Keep Your Food and Hard Earned Cash Out of the Trash
Food is wasted when we buy more than we need, store it incorrectly, throw away leftovers and cook too much. When we throw away food, we also waste all the water and energy used to produce, package and transport food from the farm to our plates.
American Food Waste Facts:

40% of all food in the US is wasted

25% of all freshwater we consume - goes to produce the food we never eat

4% of the oil we consume - goes to produce the food we never eat

$166 billion (retail value of preventable waste) - is spent on the food we never eat

135 million tons of GHG emissions - is created by the food we never eat

* These numbers are for our whole food system from farms, processors, retailers and households.

The Average American:

Household throws out 25% of the food they purchase

Family of four tosses out more than $1,600 a year in wasted food

City of Santa Cruz:
A recent Waste Characterization Study confirms that nearly 25 percent of the material buried in our City landfill is just this: food waste and wasted food.

City of Santa Cruz Food Scrap Drop Off Pilot Program

A Food Scrap Drop Off Pilot Program was launched last fall In preparation of the City Wide Food Scrap Curbside Collection program (planned rollout of that program period is early 2022). Registered participants can access one of two locked bins, and weekly collection events are planned for the two farmers market in the near future. Check out our FAQ (PDF) for more information about this program

**Complete the first survey for more information and the third if you are already a participant

Food, Too Good To Waste Webinar Series-Recorded!

April 6th, 2021 5PM-6PM- Click here for a Recording of the Webinar
Guests will be Javier Zamora from JSM Organics, Kristi Locatelli, Chief Operations Officer Wild Roots Market and Michael Mitchell-Compost Team Volunteer with Grey Bears

From Farm to Table- The Journey of Wasted Food

Food Donation- Legalities, Barriers and Benefits

May 4th, 2021 5PM-6PM - Click here for a recording of the Webinar

June 1st, 2021 5PM-6PM C lick here for a recoding of the webinar

Hungry for ways to be involved in reducing Food Waste in your beautiful City of Santa Cruz? Join us to learn how YOU can become a Food Waste Warrior and share with your community the impacts of food waste and how we can all save money and reduce wasted food. Learn about the Food Waste Challenge and gain the tools you need to start getting the word out!

For questions email Waste Reduction Staff.

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Prioritize using native plants local to our area in all new City planting projects.

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Prioritize using native plants local to our area in all new City planting projects.

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Education about food waste and how to avoid it.

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Education about food waste and how to avoid it.

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Tips in local papers and on buses

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DEADLINE EXTENDED: VIRTUAL VISIONING COLLAGE OPEN THRU JULY 31!

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DEADLINE EXTENDED: VIRTUAL VISIONING COLLAGE OPEN THRU JULY 31!

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Experiences and places to support community mental health

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Experiences and places to support community mental health

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Continue to provide events and programs that contribute to community connectedness, sustainability and equity and enhance our parks, beaches and open spaces so that all can continue to access them for recreation and rejuvenation.

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Protect our amazing source waters from fire and negative human activity, ensure sufficient water flows for people and nature, get our own house in order by being as efficient in our water use as possible, and ensure water infrastructure is designed and managed to be resilient to extended dry and wet periods.

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Stormwater capture and reuse at Golf Course

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Stormwater capture and reuse at Golf Course

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Provide a broad range of recreation facilities to encourage persons of all ages and abilities to participate in play, sports, and programs for physical and mental well-being.

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Continue to preserve and protect City's open spaces from non-recreational development and services

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Continue to preserve and protect City's open spaces from non-recreational development and services

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Create Parks and Recreation District to maintain, enhance, or restore City and/or regional parks and open spaces

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Create Parks and Recreation District to maintain, enhance, or restore City and/or regional parks and open spaces

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Give free parking permits to homeowners so they can ride their bike to work without getting a ticket on their vehicle at home.

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Establish Priorities, Identify Critical Infrastructure, and Develop a Look-Ahead Planned Retreat for the City of Santa Cruz. Revise Zoning Ordinance Land Use Districts per modelled Sea Level Rise accordingly. Engage a community Ombudsman Task Force to supplement status-quo processes with City of Santa Cruz Planning Commission.

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Establish Priorities, Identify Critical Infrastructure, and Develop a Look-Ahead Planned Retreat for the City of Santa Cruz. Revise Zoning Ordinance Land Use Districts per modelled Sea Level Rise accordingly. Engage a community Ombudsman Task Force to supplement status-quo processes with City of Santa Cruz Planning Commission.

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Ban new Gas Station in the City's Zoning Ordinance

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Ban new Gas Station in the City's Zoning Ordinance

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What is YOUR vision for a sustainable + equitable Santa Cruz in 2030? City Councilmembers share....

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Work with community partners to implement skills training and job placement for work in parks, natural resource management, tree care, etc.

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Runoff from stormwater continues to be a major cause of water pollution in urban areas. It carries trash, bacteria, heavy metals, and other pollutants through storm sewers into local waterways. Heavy rainstorms can cause flooding that damages property and infrastructure.

Historically, communities have used gray infrastructure-systems of gutters, pipes, and tunnels-to move stormwater away from where we live to treatment plants or straight to local water bodies. The gray infrastructure in many areas is aging, and its existing capacity to manage large volumes of stormwater is decreasing in areas across the country. To meet this challenge, many communities are installing green infrastructure systems to bolster their capacity to manage stormwater. By doing so, communities are becoming more resilient and achieving environmental, social and economic benefits.

Basically, green infrastructure filters and absorbs stormwater where it falls. In 2019, Congress enacted the Water Infrastructure Improvement Act , which defines green infrastructure as "the range of measures that use plant or soil systems, permeable pavement or other permeable surfaces or substrates, stormwater harvest and reuse, or landscaping to store, infiltrate, or evapotranspirate stormwater and reduce flows to sewer systems or to surface waters."

Green infrastructure elements can be woven into a community at several scales. Examples at the urban scale could include a rain barrel up against a house, a row of trees along a major city street, or greening an alleyway. Neighborhood scale green infrastructure could include acres of open park space outside a city center, planting rain gardens or constructing a wetland near a residential housing complex. At the landscape or watershed scale, examples could include protecting large open natural spaces, riparian areas, wetlands or greening steep hillsides. When green infrastructure systems are installed throughout a community, city or across a regional watershed, they can provide cleaner air and water as well as significant value for the community with flood protection, diverse habitat, and beautiful green spaces.

Learn more:

Downspout Disconnection

This simple practice reroutes rooftop drainage pipes from draining rainwater into the storm sewer to draining it into rain barrels, cisterns, or permeable areas. You can use it to store stormwater and/or allow stormwater to infiltrate into the soil. Downspout disconnection could be especially beneficial to cities with combined sewer systems.
Examples
Rainwater Harvesting

Rainwater harvesting systems reduce stormwater pollution by slowing runoff and collecting rainfall for later use. The variety of systems range from the backyard rain barrel and the commercial building cistern to ground level pits, aquifers and even nets that capture dew and fog. These types of systems have been implemented world-wide.
Examples
Rain Gardens

Rain gardens are small, shallow, sunken areas of plantings that collect stormwater runoff from roofs, streets, and sidewalks. Also known as bioretention cells, they are designed to mimic the natural ways water flows over and absorbs into land to reduce stormwater pollution.
Examples
Planter Boxes

Planter boxes are urban rain gardens with vertical walls and either open or closed bottoms. Usually found in downtown areas, they collect and absorb runoff from streets, sidewalks, and parking lots. Ideal for areas with limited space, planter boxes can be a useful way to beautify city streets.
Examples
Bioswales

Bioswales, often found along curbs and in parking lots, use vegetation or mulch to slow and filter stormwater flows.
Examples
Permeable Pavements

Permeable pavements infiltrate, treat, and/or store rainwater where it falls. They can be made of pervious concrete, porous asphalt, or permeable interlocking pavers. This practice could be particularly cost effective where land values are high and flooding or icing is a problem.
Examples
Green Streets and Alleys

Green streets and alleys are created by integrating green infrastructure elements into their design to store and filter stormwater. Permeable pavement, bioswales, planter boxes, and trees are among the elements that can be woven into street or alley design.
Examples
Green Parking

Many green infrastructure elements can be seamlessly integrated into parking lot designs. Permeable pavements can be installed in sections of a lot and rain gardens and bioswales can be included in medians and along the parking lot perimeter. When built into a parking lot, these elements also reduce the heat island effect and improve walkability in the area.
Examples
Green Roofs

Green roofs are covered with growing media and vegetation that enable rainfall infiltration and evapotranspiration of stored water. They are particularly cost-effective in dense urban areas where land values are high and on large industrial or office buildings where stormwater management costs are likely to be high.
Examples
Urban Tree Canopy

Trees absorb stormwater in their leaves and branches. Many cities have set tree canopy goals to restore the benefits of trees lost when the areas were developed. Homeowners, businesses, and community groups can participate in planting and maintaining trees throughout the urban environment.
Examples
Land Conservation

The water quality and flooding impacts of urban stormwater also can be addressed by protecting open spaces and sensitive natural areas within and adjacent to a city while providing recreational opportunities for city residents. Natural areas that should be a focus of this effort include riparian areas, wetlands, and steep hillsides.
Examples

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Increased funding for open space management

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Increased funding for open space management

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to allow for more invasive species management, fire prevention, and ecological restoration

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Fully implement the Street Tree Master Plan

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Fully implement the Street Tree Master Plan

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in order to increase the environmental and social benefits of the urban forest

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Walking or bicycling to a community park provides double the opportunity for physical activity - on the way to the park and within it! We're working to improve the safety and security of active travel to parks through an effort called Safe Routes to Parks Activating Communities. The Safe Routes to Parks Activating Communities program provides in-depth technical assistance and grant funding to ten communities working to improve safe, secure park access for people of all ages and abilities in low-income communities and communities of color. The Safe Routes to Parks Activating Communities program builds on the Safe Routes to Parks Action Framework and Safe Routes to Parks Pilot Site program, developed in collaboration with the National Recreation and Parks Association.

About Safe Routes to Parks

Why Safe Routes to Parks?

Too often, communities that have experienced historical disinvestment, high levels of traffic incidences, crime and public safety challenges, and high rates of weight-related chronic disease have the least safe access to local public parks. Over the long term, with increased safety and accessibility, Safe Routes to Parks seeks to increase park usage and improve health for people of all ages, races, abilities, and income levels.

What are Safe Routes to Parks?

Safe Routes to Parks are approximately ten-minute walks or bike rides to parks that are:

Accessible via multiple modes of transportation for people of all ages and abilities

Conveniently located within approximately one half mile (10 minute walk) from where people live

Safe from traffic and personal danger

Comfortable and appealing places to walk or bicycle

End at parks that are well-maintained and programmed

Who Needs Safe Routes to Parks?

We all do! But Safe Routes to Parks are of particular concern in communities lacking infrastructure to support safe walking and bicycling and where violence and crime and high rates of weight-related chronic disease are prevalent. Safe Routes to Parks are important for kids, who are not old enough to drive themselves to parks, seniors, who may not wish to drive, and for people without cars, who rely on walking or bicycling to get around.

Safe Routes to Parks Resources

These fact sheets, toolkits, infographics, and videos can help your community create safer, more accessible parks in communities across the country.

General

Safe Routes to Parks Action Framework and Resource Guide
Guide from the National Recreation and Parks Association (NRPA) and Safe Routes Partnership provides strategies and resources to support the development and implementation of plans that improve safe, equitable, convenient access to local parks and green spaces.

Safe Routes to Parks Action Framework Training
Recorded training that provides in-depth instruction on each stage of the framework and examples from pilot sites across the country that worked on Safe Routes to Parks.

Sample Safe Routes to Parks Plans
View action plans from past Safe Routes to Parks Activating Communities program grantees.

1. Blue Zones Project Hawaii (Honolulu, HI)

2. United Neighborhood Association of South Wenatchee (Wenatchee, WA)

Safe Routes to School Meets Safe Routes to Parks
Factsheet overviewing alignment between Safe Routes to Parks and Safe Routes to School efforts.

Aligning Safe Routes to Parks with Safe Routes to School
This fact sheet outlines how Safe Routes to School and Safe Routes to Parks programming and advocacy can align to achieve shared goals and accomplish even more than each could do separately.

Safe Routes to Parks Infographic
Infographic highlighting the process of creating Safe Routes to Parks
Connecting People to Parks: A Toolkit to Increase Safe and Equitable Access to Local Parks and Green Spaces
This toolkit includes step-by-step guidance through the Safe Routes to Parks framework to increase safe and equitable access to parks and green spaces.

Equity

Equity in Safe Routes to Parks
Series of fact sheets with strategies to advance equity in every stage of the Safe Routes to Parks Action Framework.

Incorporating Equity into Safe Routes to Parks Training
Recorded in-depth instruction on how to incorporate equity into Safe Routes to Parks efforts and develop organizational capacity to address equity.

Engage

A Checklist for Facilitating Community Engagement During Safe Routes to Parks Visioning Activities
Fact sheet to help organizations host a thoughtfully facilitated, engaging community visioning activity around Safe Routes to Parks efforts.

Protecting Black Lives in Parks and Public Spaces
As advocates for safe routes and safe public spaces, we must take a holistic view of safety, especially the safety of Black lives. This blog posts explores non-police strategies to improve safety in parks, streets, and public spaces.

Assess

Harnessing Data to Advance Safe Routes to Parks
This fact sheet provides ideas for ways to access and collect data as well as ways to effectively share the information to improve safe, equitable access to parks and green space.

Safe Routes to Parks Walk Audit Toolkit
Toolkit outlines steps to conduct a walk audit that will help improve safe access to parks for people walking and biking.

Health Impact Assessments: A Tool to Focus on Health Assessments of Public Park Access
Factsheet explains what Health Impact Assessments are and how they can support park access.
Safe Routes to Parks Evaluation Guide: Steps and Tips to Assess and Inform Efforts to Improve Park Access
Plan

Standalone Policies to Support Safe Routes to Parks
Factsheet presents potential standalone policies that can demonstrate a clear commitment to Safe Routes to Parks.

Safe Routes to Parks in Complete Streets Policies
Incorporating Safe Routes to Parks priorities into Complete Streets policies can help shape daily operations and funding decisions, drastically increasing the likelihood of sustainable funding and consistent implementation.

Safety for Safe Routes in Parks - Part 1 & Safety for Safe Routes in Parks - Part 2

In these two recordings, Safe Growth founder, Greg Saville discusses the basics of a Safe Growth approach to community safety and analysis for park safety and crime prevention. Participants from the 2021 Safe Routes to Parks cohort discuss the concepts and concrete ways that they apply to assessing safety for their Safe Routes to Parks work.

Implement
Ideas for Implementing Safe Routes to Parks Improvements People Powered Improvements: How Advocates Can Support the Implementation of Safe Routes to Parks Putting the "Safe" in Safe Routes to Parks: Improving Personal Safety from Crime and Violence to Promote Park Access
Sustain
Keep Up the Momentum: Sustaining Safe Routes to Parks Efforts
Safe Routes to Parks Success Stories
Innovative Library and Parks Department Partnership Demonstrates Safer Connections for People and Parks Via Highway Bridge Community-Led Art Installation Encourages Safer Streets Near Old Stadium Park and Serves as a Model for Oahu Residents 'Lead the Change' and Ignite Collaborative Efforts to Increase Park Safety in Houston Sustaining Success: Former Crime Magnet is Transformed into a Community Recreational and Green Space Grassroots Community Residents Lead the Change for a Safer and More Accessible Park in Planada, CA Making Complete Streets a Reality in Birmingham, AL Watch: Safe Routes to Parks Watch: Living Cully Walks worked with community residents and artists to create a wayfinding network that helps people get to Cully Park, built on a former landfill in the Cully neighborhood of Portland. grantee Zyp BikeShare conducted a tactical urbanism event to build support for better bike connections to a local park in Birmingham, AL.

Bringing Flashing Stop Signs and a Community Park Celebration to Wenatchee, Washington

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Battery storage + solar to complement or augment gas-powered backup generators

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Battery storage + solar to complement or augment gas-powered backup generators

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EV Chargers available for City Employees

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What do you think about this framework for a Just Transition?

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What do you think about this framework for a Just Transition?

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One way West Cliff Drive for vehicles and expanded bike/pedestrian/recreation area.

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One way West Cliff Drive for vehicles and expanded bike/pedestrian/recreation area.

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Programs to encourage energy efficiency retrofits of homes/apartments/ businesses, perhaps with energy savings being passed on to tenants if the program is providing public subsidies  

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Programs to encourage energy efficiency retrofits of homes/apartments/ businesses, perhaps with energy savings being passed on to tenants if the program is providing public subsidies  

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Continue to lead through requiring or encouraging development to exceed energy requirements in the state building codes

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Continue to lead through requiring or encouraging development to exceed energy requirements in the state building codes

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Shelter and housing options for the homeless to minimize encampment impacts to the environment

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Shelter and housing options for the homeless to minimize encampment impacts to the environment

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Rail transit or other powered transit option along the rail line.

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Rail transit or other powered transit option along the rail line.

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Growing up, not out, to protect natural resources and amenities

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Growing up, not out, to protect natural resources and amenities

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New innovation district for the West Side industrial area 

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New innovation district for the West Side industrial area 

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Continued increase in biking and walking and decrease in single-occupancy vehicles

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Continued increase in biking and walking and decrease in single-occupancy vehicles

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A trail only system that runs the length of the county.

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A trail only system that runs the length of the county.

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Help support and create a Permanent home in Santa Cruz for the Warriors, supporting short and long term job creation in the community and off season economic development through the creation of a green development

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Expansion of housing supply and increased accessibility to different neighborhoods / schools by those with different incomes

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Expansion of housing supply and increased accessibility to different neighborhoods / schools by those with different incomes

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We have enough water to ensure everyone can use water efficiently for both human needs and for those issues that are important to our community such as parks, green spaces, gardens

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Completion of planned affordable housing projects in the downtown, creating over 300 affordable housing units in the community while helping to stabilize downtown.

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Reliable high speed internet to allow remote work to continue

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Reliable high speed internet to allow remote work to continue

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complete network of separated bike facilities

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complete network of separated bike facilities

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High quality bike parking at all destinations

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High quality bike parking at all destinations

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High frequency transit on Water, Soquel, Mission, Laurel, and Bay corridors

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High frequency transit on Water, Soquel, Mission, Laurel, and Bay corridors

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Install wait times at stop lights to

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“While we might feel small, separate, and all alone, our people have never been more tightly tethered. The question’s not if we will weather this unknown, but how we will weather the unknown together.”- The Miracle of Morning

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Expanding consideratino of equity in all planning/decision making with respect to sustainability (and all issues)

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Expanding consideratino of equity in all planning/decision making with respect to sustainability (and all issues)

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See Health in All Policies tools!

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Develop more substantial and engaging social media presence to keep people informed on and excited about the CAP

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Develop more substantial and engaging social media presence to keep people informed on and excited about the CAP

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Reduced parking requirements and increased outdoor dining options for businesses to increase walkability and vibrancy for downtown and commercial districts

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Reduced parking requirements and increased outdoor dining options for businesses to increase walkability and vibrancy for downtown and commercial districts

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Completion of Wharf Master Plan projects

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Completion of Wharf Master Plan projects

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to support long term sustainability of the wharf

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Education Program on Dangers of Home Use of Portable Generators during PSPS Events- Collaboration with Fire Department / Fire Prevention

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Education Program on Dangers of Home Use of Portable Generators during PSPS Events- Collaboration with Fire Department / Fire Prevention

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Consideration of a move from GHG Inventories > Consumptived Based Inventories / Life-Cycle Analyses in future City inventories, tracking, & reporting

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Development of tech office hubs in Santa Cruz to reduce commutes over the hill and retain workers locally

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Development of tech office hubs in Santa Cruz to reduce commutes over the hill and retain workers locally

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Development of new housing downtown with access to transit and jobs

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Development of new housing downtown with access to transit and jobs

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Plan and prepare for a future that looks different than the past - we are living during a time of great changes

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Plan and prepare for a future that looks different than the past - we are living during a time of great changes

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- cross departmental engagement & collaboration
- in-depth buildings & infrastructure study to optimize integration of renewables for EV charging
- studies to optimize electrification opportunities replacing older vehicles
- grant / funding opportunities analysis (what is coming down the pipe, what do we need to do to align?)
- right-sizing vehicles for fleet
- enabling telematics data, or other form of detailed mileage tracking
- workforce development in the garage & maintenance department
- employee training on how to charge, plug-in, optimize EV use

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Building a strong greentech and green economy cluster

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Building a strong greentech and green economy cluster

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Build resilience into all City infrastructure

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Items that are booked into Property, establishing some sort of recycling program (we used to donate bikes to the teen center).

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Increased wages to enable workers to live where they work

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Increased wages to enable workers to live where they work

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Solar, storage, an all electric fleet, vehicle to grid integration

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Ultra efficient affordable housing developments

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Ultra efficient affordable housing developments

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The Climate Action Program is using Padlet, an online forum, to collect ideas to form a vision for Resilient Together Santa Cruz - the City's climate action planning process taking place over 2021. You can contribute ideas about your and your Department's vision for a sustainable and climate resilient Santa Cruz in 2030 by uploading pictures, videos and audio clips, adding text or simply by liking others' posts.

Scroll right to review categories at the top of the Padlet and click the "+" button at the top of each category to begin sharing. Scroll vertically in each category column to review others' contributions and if you like someone’s idea, you can like the post and leave your comment on it! Please be respectful of other people's ideas - no one is right or wrong here. Scroll right and left to see different categories, and scroll up and down to see what others have contributed. Mini Padlet Primer video link below! Open through July 26, 2021!

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Santa Cruz Climate Action Plan 2030 Virtual Visioning Collage - Padlet tutorial