Playbook for Green Buildings + Neighborhoods | Plan | Neighborhoods

A good green neighborhood plan will integrate a climate-change focus with complementary objectives and plan to overcome long-term barriers.

A green neighborhood plan builds on good smart growth and new urbanist planning principles, but also includes some unusual elements.

It is based on the collaboration of a wide range of departments and stakeholders. Going beyond consultation, this collaboration aims to find solutions that meet diverse stakeholder objectives and leverage their varied assets.
It often involves long-term strategies for overcoming barriers to green development - going beyond built form and transportation policies to address financing, partnerships, incentives, and other actions.

The articles below summarize the contents of a typical green plan, how to integrate climate change and other objectives in it, and the types of tangible, effective actions you can take.

Structure of a Green Neighborhood Plan
Great places are certainly more than the sum of their parts, and the structure of a green neighborhoods plan reflects that.
Emissions Reduction and Neighborhood Planning
Steps that reduce emissions cross many other neighborhood planning issues.
Links to Action
While the local context will determine the exact mix of strategies, partnerships, and processes needed in a green neighborhood plan, the types of actions are consistent.

City of Montréal Sustainability Strategy

A comprehensive strategy, this report covers Phase 1, from 2007-2009

High density neighborhoods in inner areas are as much as 50% more cost efficient than low density outer suburbs neighborhoods on a life cycle cost basis.(Dillon Consulting et. al, 2005)