City Council’s Goal #6 is to create an "Environmentally Sustainable Community": 

Provide management and stewardship of natural resources and environmental assets such that their value is preserved, restored, and enhanced for the present and future generations; and such actions complement community efforts to foster economic and social health.  Components include implementing “Green” practices at all City-owned or operated facilities, requiring new development or redevelopment to achieve high standards for stormwater management, energy efficiency, and reduction of solid waste, and maximizing recycling and reuse of  resources.

Objectives:

• Develop an Environmental Sustainability Strategy
• Complete Urban Forestry Assessment
• Develop options for a Green Street Demonstration Project
• Adopt advanced stormwater standards for the second phase of the Aurora Project
• Update Stormwater Management Program

• Work on implementing Mayor’s Climate Protection Agreement

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Proposed Shoreline Sustainability Strategy, March 20, 2008,
now available for review!

For your convenience the document has been divided into smaller documents for ease of downloading.

Proposed Shoreline Sustainability Strategy
- Draft Sustainability Executive Summary
- Main Document 
- Green Infrastructure Figures
   p. 35:  Figure 3.3
   p. 37:  Figure 3.4
   p. 39:  Figure 3.5
- Appendices Part I:  A, B, C
- Appendices Part II :  D, E, F, G

Please contact Juniper Nammi, jnammi@ci.shoreline.wa.us or 206-546-8805, if you have any difficulty accessing these documents.

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Progress of Goal #6:

• Environmental Sustainability Strategy
  The City of Shoreline has completed work with the consulting team, AHBL and O'Brien and Company, to develop an overarching strategy for "Creating an Environmentally Sustainable Community".
  
  Project scope and preliminary research by consultants:
  - Consultant Scope of Work
  - Discipline Paper: Sustainability Program Elements and Profiles
  - Discipline Paper: Sustainability Measurement and Tracking
  
  Two Community Conversations were held:
  
  - Community Conversation #1, October 11, 2007
  The first conversation was held Thursday, October 11.  Click on the following links to download materials presented that evening. 
  
  PowerPoint Presentation: Project Overview
  Meeting Posters: Green Infastructure
  Meeting Posters: Engery & Carbon
  Meeting Posters: Resource Efficiency & Waste Management
  Meeting Poster: Green Building & Low Impact Development
  
  Summary of public comments received at Conversation #1:
  - Summary Comments from meeting
  - Green Infrastructure Exercise: Mapping Results
  
  - Community Conversation #2, November 14, 2007
  The second conversation was held Wednesday, November 14.  Click on the following links to download materials presented that evening.
  
  PowerPoint Presentation: Project Update
  Meeting Handout: Draft Decision Making Tool
  Meeting Handout: Draft Recommended Actions
  Meeting Handout: Draft Sustainability Indicators
  
  Summary of public comments received at Conversation #2:
  - Summary Comments from meeting
  
  Next Steps for the Environmental Sustainability Strategy:
  1. Public Hearing at April 14, 2008 City Council meeting.
  2. City Council discussion of Strategy scheduled for May 5, 2008.
  3. City Council adoption of the Strategy is currently scheduled for May 12, 2008.

• Complete Urban Forestry Assessment
  The City Council approved a contract with Seattle Urban Nature (SUN) to provide habitat mapping, vegetation surveys and management recommendations for Hamlin Park, South Woods, Shoreview Park and Boeing Creek Park.  Since the contract was signed in late 2006, SUN has collected data in the field and from existing GIS maps to produce a GIS layer that delineates existing habitat types throughout each of the four parks.  Over the summer, SUN conducted their survey in each of the habitat types throughout each of the four parks.  SUN is analyzing the data to be incorporated into a report that documents their findings, including management recommendations developed for each of the four areas surveyed.  SUN will present their findings in a final council presentation in January 2008.

• Develop options for a Green Street Demonstration Project
  The Public Works Department is in the planning stage for a project in 2008.  This Green Works project will strive to demonstrate a “complete street” concept that includes (to the extent practical) a complete street in a residential area that is designed and operated to enable safe access for all users (pedestrians, bicyclists, and motorists of all ages and abilities), and to provide stormwater treatment prior to discharging it to local streams and other surface water bodies.

  Stormwater will be managed through the use of natural drainage systems in conjunction with pedestrian improvements and traffic calming.  The "tool kit" for implementation in the right-of-way includes curb bulb stormwater treatment areas in conjunction with traffic calming, pervious pavement in conjunction with pedestrian pathway improvement projects, right-of-way planter boxes or rain gardens in amenity zones that stormwater runs through, and street trees.

• Update Stormwater Management Program
  A Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for consultant services to assist with this management plan update was published in late summer.  Staff will select a service provider in the fall and begin executing the scope of work.

  Public Works Staff has received a $75,000 grant from the Department of Ecology to help fund this project.  Approval of the grant is on the November 5, 2007 Council agenda as a consent item.

  The Department of Ecology’s NPDES Phase II Municipal Stormwater Permit became effective for the City during the first quarter (February 16) of 2007.  Surface Water and Environmental Service (SWES) staff have evaluated the requirements of the permit in relation to code revisions.  SWES staff are currently conducting a programmatic needs assessment in relation to the permit requirements.  This permit requires the City to develop/implement/enforce a program to reduce pollutants in stormwater runoff from new development, redevelopment, and construction site activities by August 2009.  Over the next 14 months, staff will be proposing changes to the stormwater code and holding a public forum on the issues.  Staff will bring recommendations to the City Council by the end of 2008.
  

• Implementing  Mayor’s Climate Protection Agreement
  The first phase of implementing this goal element is to inventory the City’s global warming emissions for 1990 and 2007.  Toward this effort, staff is researching how to accurately measure emission levels.  City staff met with the City of Seattle to learn about and assess their method of completing a climate protection inventory.  The City also joined the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI), the international leader for municipal implementation of climate protection, to obtain climate protection inventory software and training.  Shoreline staff have received an initial orientation to the software and expect to receive additional training in late 2007 to help define the inventory data for collection. In addition, funding for a statistically reliable telephone survey is being investigated.