Options Database

Publicly report annually on progress in reducing pollution levels relative to targets and achieving the commitments in the Clean Air Cities Declaration.

Publish a guide on steps that property owners can take to make their existing buildings more resilient.

Purchase and implement an air quality measuring system.

Purchase backup generators for the water infrastructure system to provide a sustained minimal level of water services in the event of a catastrophic power loss.

Purchase other properties vulnerable to future flooding (not repetitive loss parcels) and prioritize which ones to repurpose.

Pursue complementary efforts to increase the use of electrified transportation, improve the thermal efficiency of buildings, and replace electric resistance heat (such as electric baseboard heaters) with heat pumps.

Reach out to your state representatives to seek support for priority projects in advance of the budget cycle.

Recognize adaptable infrastructure

Recommend tree planting and protection strategies for private development projects.

Reduce carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning by creating or expanding education on the topic. Distribute CO detectors through education efforts.

Reduce consumption of electricity and fuel and increase renewable energy capacity to increase regional resilience, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and improve emergency management and disaster recovery.

Reduce flood insurance premiums by improving CRS rating.

Reduce flooding by targeting stream restoration in gullies that are most affected by fluctuations in water volume.

Reduce local flooding through implementation of low impact development.

Reduce non-point source pollution at local government facilities by ensuring the staff and operations are meeting National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit requirements.

Reduce response time and increase capacity (man power) to respond to areas where there is shared mutual aid agreements by increasing staffed hours required in fire stations in key areas

Reduce response time by speeding up reporting of wildfire ignition through community watch programs or through tools that use remote sensing technology.

Reduce threshold for stormwater quantity control and consider improvements to streams: increase quality control, improve incentives for current roles to increase quantity and infiltration

Reduce wildfire response times by increasing staffed hours requirements in fire stations in key areas.

Reduce wildfire risk in natural landscapes by investigating opportunities available through zoning, home construction and fire safe building and landscape codes for the wildland-urban interface. Reference the International Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Code when developing wildfire prevention policies and procedures. The WUI is the zone of transition between unoccupied land and human development.