Playbook for Green Buildings + Neighborhoods | Neighborhoods

To encourage green, climate-friendly neighborhoods, use a planning approach that identifies and takes easy actions quickly, ensures long-term commitment, and builds a robust plan around realistic targets.

Because the political, regulatory, and technical aspects of climate change are evolving so quickly, plan to monitor and adjust your process over time. These plans may be developed individually, but policy support through a community-scale plan is an important part of a comprehensive local government approach.

Planning for green neighborhoods involves:

Making a commitment to neighborhood designs that will support a low- emission lifestyle for all residents.
Creating a vision and policy statement that describes all aspects of these neighborhoods and ties these statements to a progressive set of goals.
Involving the widest possible range of stakeholders to ensure all issues and needs are addressed.
Setting up and maintaining internal systems to ensure continued improvements and refinements as the plan is implemented.