good evening and welcome to the august 17th parks and natural resource commission meeting so tonight as with many of our meetings lately we will be conducting in-person meetings here while also following social distancing guidelines so you can notice we're very spread out in the room right now there are also some members of our committee as well as others that might be presenting that'll be on the zoom call so we'll be kind of doing a little bit of a hybrid situation today so we're doing the best to make sure that everybody is able to stay safe so members of the public may attend the meeting in person or join online via zoom conferencing service and further instructions can be found on our city's website at burnsville.gov calendar you can find the meeting invite and then find the instructions for joining either via phone call or vera zoom so if you're interested feel free to join us and then we'll make sure to find time for comments for our citizens et cetera as we go through the meeting and you'll notice that it'll look a little bit different just due to roll calls since not all of us are here in the room but also joining virtually as well so welcome to those that are online today all right and with that we're going to move into the agenda so um as you know the agenda is here in front of us is there anybody that may be interested in um moving to adopt the agenda so move second all right so those in favor jj i think you're going to call roll commissioner angara aye commissioner arnold aye commissioner cleveland aye commissioner donaldson aye commissioner fitchett aye commissioner newman aye mr wollman aye all right so the motion passes so we have our agenda so next on to the approval of the minutes that we have in our pocket here are there any changes to the minutes all right none do we have a motion to approve so move second all right jj do you want to call for votes again mr angara aye mr arnold aye commissioner cleveland aye commissioner donaldson aye commencement fischett aye commissioner newman aye mr wollman hi all right and that passes as well thank you all right so now we're on to citizen comments this afternoon or this evening are there any comments from anybody out in a virtual setting i'm seeing none all right so we're going to move on to the presentation and discussion of the 2040 comprehensive plan implementation plan thank you hi my name is deb garris i'm one of the two city planners here at the city of burnsville and as planners we get to coordinate comprehensive plan updates and the pnrc was involved in the process the comprehensive plan is really a long range 20-year plan for the city it is something that is required by state statutes there is a planning act that was developed in 1976 and what happens generally is the metropolitan council after every census so we have a census that is being done this year so yeah listen up because you guys might be here when we need to update it again but basically after every census they look at the region and a number of different systems that they offer and then all cities counties uh and townships need to develop these 20-year plans so our plan is called the 2040 comprehensive plan it's because that's the time period uh the planning period if you say and part of the comprehensive plan after it's approved by the city council and the metropolitan council is that we need to develop an implementation plan and that is what the purpose of tonight is it's really just to give you a little bit of background on the comprehensive plan process and then we do have the implementation plan which is sent to you in the packet and if you have any questions related to those we have our great pnrc staff here that that can address those for you so just to start as i indicated there is a land planning act for the state of minnesota there used to be years ago a state planning office that was disbanded many years ago the land planning act really sets forth uh the opportunity for the metropolitan council to do regional planning and then have local governments uh basically adopt plans that are consistent with the overall regional plans for the seven county metropolitan area so that basically what they do again they use the decennial census which they're undertaking this year to see what the region's counts are in terms of our population transportation housing those types of things and then they develop plans for for the region the one of the biggest or most critical issues from a city standpoint with comprehensive planning is not only setting these things up for the community our visioning and what we would like to see for the future but it's also tied to transportation funding and funding then associated with trails which often are part of that and also livable communities and what livable communities is it's a program that metropolitan council administers and again there are a number of different ways that cities can apply for these funds through the metropolitan council and there is a discussion of that in the comprehensive plan as well so in terms of regional systems that the metropolitan council covers one of their biggest is parks and open space and then also they cover transportation surface water which is kind of a new element transportation dealing with transit trails all of those types of things their parks and open space really relates more to the regional parks and access to regional trails that we make connections to as as local cities whoops did i just go the right way or the wrong way let's see here the most recent plan that they did that our comp plan is based on is called msp 2040 and there are if you go to the metropolitan council's website or even burnsville's website and click on planning and comprehensive plans there are links to these regional plans so we have those and then they develop a system statement for every city which basically identifies for each city what all we need to do to be consistent with their overall regional plans and they also have some other areas that they address as well land use is a is a big component of that big element housing and then they have this past this last time added sustainability which you'll be hearing from sue bast on the city sustainability plan and then also economic economic development is a new part that hadn't been formally a chapter in their comprehensive plan in the past years so basically as i had indicated you have the metropolitan council and they send out a system statement to every local jurisdiction telling us what we need to do ours was issued in 2015. uh and then part of that on the bottom it just indicates what the population household and employment estimates are that the metropolitan council does for the cities and that's in a period of the the current year and then 10 years and 20 years so ultimately you have these estimates um for the future and the city does work with the metropolitan council every year we take a look at population estimates so it's you know it's not that they're only looked at one time in 10 years but this helps to provide i guess the basis so that they can plan for and provide traffic transportation funds for the highway departments local funding housing assistance and those types of things so in thrive 2040 the three elements that really apply to parks and natural resources for for your commission is there elements related to regional bike transportation networks regional trails local off-road trails and also on-road bikeways and then the natural resources protection there are several plans that the city has done that are kind of rolled in and are part of the appendices are made part of the comprehensive plan that includes the ear surface or excuse me water resources management plan natural resources and several of those plans are all part of this so when you're looking at you know little pieces of things this is really just to give you an idea that it's part of a bigger bigger process and bigger planning that we do and then we talked about new chapters are kind of building in resilience which includes sustainability and then economic economic development as well so for a typical comprehensive plan it takes several years to actually put these together um we started in 2016 and created an advisory panel of i believe was 20 to 25 members from the public that were involved in the advisory panel the city's planning commission is the legal entity if you will that's responsible for undertaking these comprehensive plan updates but we do also include and make presentations and include the other commissions as well as school districts and the county actually both counties dakota and scott county because they're in hennepin county as it's across the river um so there are a whole number of folks that get involved this last time we did hire consultant that helped actually several consultants that helped put the plan together one of them was evans oliver and they've been working with the city for many years on our sustainability plan and and other plans as well so ultimately we went through this planning process if you will which took until november of 2017 and then we had to send it out to a number of jurisdictions to make sure that our plan is consistent with their plans so that's where the counties get involved and the different cities that we're adjacent to and we also review their plans so they're looking at our parks and trails where do we need to make connections those types of things we try to plan those out then so that there is consistency with our adjacent governments in their programs and then also metropolitan council their citizens advisory committee they met probably over 20 times you know taking a look at various elements and this is just to kind of review the work that the consultants and staff did to see are we on track are there you know other questions are there things we're missing that that we should look at and and those types of things so they're very very helpful um in that process and in addition to that we did a number of community engagement things um which i'm sure against sue talked about sustainability that's included in sustainability plan as well but we try to get the word out as best we can to get the most input from residents and businesses in order to develop these 20-year plans and our comprehensive plan this is on the city's website you can if you just go to the website if you're interested in looking at any of it or you know doing a light read or not or heavy read you can go to the website and just type in comprehensive plan and it will take you uh to the 2040 plan and then also the metropolitan plans if you're interested and you can look at the particular chapters within each chapter of the comprehensive plan there are a number of these goals policies and then these implementation items that are listed and we listed them out by chapter that's how we tried to provide them for your review and in our 2040 plan there are eight different chapters and in terms of the things that probably would be most applicable for you and of interest would be the natural environment chapter the transportation chapter and then the city services and facilities that's where the parks and trails are really discussed mostly in that uh chapter eight and just uh for a little bit of background um the land area is because burnsville is fully developed and we have been pretty much for you know decades what they looked at are a couple of specific areas one being the minnesota river quadrant and that's everything north of highway 13 and west of i-35w the other another area we looked at is the heart of the city and they looked at expanding the heart of the city to include additional areas and if you've heard about things like the orange line bus rapid transit those things are part then of the the comprehensive plan and they also looked at an area it's the older industrial area basically along cliff and adjacent to the minnesota river and these types of plans are in there i don't you know i'm not expecting you to make a lot of sense of these but just to give you an idea of what is done with the comprehensive plan so we establish land uses major groups of land uses and then we also try to then accommodate for to meet the metropolitan council estimates or the city's estimates if they're different for our population the number of houses that we're going to need households the type of employment how we are going to get people to and from and those types of things so this would be an example of heart of the city and where it's expanded to i hope you can see that on here it's a little bit light but there are a couple of circles that were added and basically the expanded heart of the city to include not only up to 35 w on the west side but beyond that because we're going to have an orange line bus station located on burnsville parkway and uh right by the bridge there that goes over on burnsville parkway over the interstate and then the areas beyond that we think we'll also be looking at redevelopment sometime over these 40 years or increased intensity of development because of their access to trails their access to parks to the commercial center and then also for housing and proximity than to transit this is the area up by cliff road the industrial area which we really took a look at and a lot of folks thought that you know it's kind of a dying area but what we actually found out in with our consultants is this area is a great area for incubator for new businesses and it is it's actually very successful there are low vacancy rates through there and it may look a little bit tired in terms of some of the you know some of the sidewalks are older roads and those types of things but the vibrancy of the business community that's in there is is really good so that's kind of an area that something that we learned that was different than we kind of thought but is a a great asset you know for burnsville and to build on that and then also the burnsville center unfortunately you might have heard that they're behind you know on payments and maybe closing shopping centers just all throughout the united states are are experiencing difficulties then with this coveted even more difficult the city did a separate study outside of the comprehensive plan but it's kind of you know related to this for the county road 42 corridor and the shopping center area and beyond for potential looking at redevelopment options what could possibly happen there so that large planning effort if you will kind of came out or started with concepts in the comprehensive plan and then these are just some additional types of plans or concepts that you'll see in there and it's to give people who move to the community or work in the community have businesses here and then also people who are interested in developing uh in the city kind of a foundation of where we're at what we see and you know how how can we make these things happen or if there are changes new technology comes in different types of land uses then how do we take a look at that in terms of all of the different systems that the city has this is the minnesota river quadrant the reason that i brought this up is that we actually the city council is going to consider tomorrow night an amendment or a change to the quarry they are requesting to do more mining and in addition they're looking at additional 76 acres to mine and that will ultimately create the lake once they stop pumping water out of the quarry when they're done quarrying that will fill and it'll be about a 400 acre lake there and then they are looking to um on the side that's closest to 35 w um to fill that back fill that with the types of soils needed so that that can be developed in the future and a big component of the minnesota river quadrant includes parks and opening up the area which used to be very heavy industrial you know as a natural resource area for people to live next to and to be able to get down and use the trails there's a regional trail system that's shown along and includes that big green area kind of to the top part of the screen that's all cramer property and so there's a trail that would a regional trail that would link to the trail on the east side of of i-35 um on the black dog road trail so that would be a connection and then continue through and ultimately connect down to the lake marion trail which you may have reviewed and seen different parts of natural environment chapters i just talked uh briefly you know where you would find that information and again uh in section 8 for the parks and the transportation plan gets into more trails and things we do include in the plan um the actual trail locations what's on the left is the metropolitan council's you know a map that they put in for the system statement that just shows kind of in general where they're looking for corridors and things and then our plan usually is quite a bit more specific than that and generally how how they we show that we're going to implement their overall plans and then these are just some this would be the most recent i think connection that's being made through kelliher park for the um lake marion trail and just some other parts of the regional system then with parks we have included both the dakota and city we do a lot of partnerships together to make these regional type systems happen natural environment you've probably seen and gone through many of the different elements of those but there is a really a lot of the comprehensive plan is dedicated to our natural environment in many different ways sustainability sue will talk about but what is different about this comprehensive plan is that this is the first time sustainability has been incorporated into every chapter and there are goals and policies and then unfortunately i had meant to send you only part of the implementation plan if you pulled it up and looked at it there's a number of worksheets or spreadsheets that are in green and those are sustainability elements and we included them initially but then kind of took them out of our part of the implementation for the comp plan because those things are going to be covered by by sue and and the work that they're doing and there's also a large appendix if you were to look at the comp plan and the appendix is where the other plans like the natural resource plan water management plans those types of things are actually in the appendix so you need to look in the appendix to look at those particular plans and then with that we just have the implementation plan and what we try to do is just identify by chapter and number this goes right from the comprehensive plan document itself and just indicate the the strategy or action and then the responsible party and the by date and i think one of the major things you'll notice in there when just taking a a quick look is a lot of these are ongoing things that the city's been doing for years and will have to continue to do for many years but if there's anything in particular just know that this is out there and if you have any questions you can bring them up through your staff and we'd be glad to come and discuss you know something further or you know if you have interest in some point in the future we'd be glad to come in and and to speak with you and get your your input and participation that's all i have all right any questions thank you i maybe have one before you leave um so you know throughout the the comp plan and then um throughout kind of the strategies we talk a lot about like increasing the tree coverage and that type of thing however when we have caleb come and join us he talks about like native kind of um kind of perspective for this particular area which is not tree coverage right so it's more of the oak savannah and some of these more prairie grasslands so you know this feels like kind of like the the typical kind of comp plan for a particular city is increasing tree coverage and that type of thing but how do we make this specific to our particular area where tree coverage isn't necessarily native to this area and really those grasslands are probably even more beneficial right now just given some of the native pollinators and you know animals in this particular area that we're trying to maintain as well yep you have um there i think some um not necessarily competing but different goals and objectives and in terms of the um the woodland areas the areas where we have natural areas like crystal lake west park you know that has or oak savannah those regional areas we've tried to concentrate where those are at and do things over time to help protect them and clean out like buckthorn and those types of things so you have that element and then there's also the element of when property comes in to be developed if you have a vacant property and it's developed or redevelopment and then there are a series of tree planting requirements that go along with that and then in addition street trees the city the city forester dave gromesh if you've worked with him identifies you know street trees and we have in the comprehensive plan also certain areas that are corridors where they want to see certain types of plantings and things so i think in terms of the comprehensive plan because it's an overall guiding plan you get a lot of those i think objectives but in the context it's really you know those kind of specific areas that we look at natural resource protection and those types of things so they're included and we do look every development is also reviewed we've got a development review team and that staff from all the different departments and everyone takes a look at it in terms of not only these things but you know the particular plans that they have done and gives feedback and then we as the planners work with the developers to try to accomplish those objectives so if there's an area that it makes sense to have it you know more open natural area plantings green space we look at doing that if there's an area that should be preserved because it's got really high quality hardcover trees or oaks those types of things then we would look to preserve that that's kind of how it gets implemented over time okay great any other questions from any commissioners thank you any of our zoom participants no all right thank you so much for coming thank you jerry newman if you'll give us a minute we can reset the presentation for the next [Music] oops this is really wet soup this place was a zoo election night oh really yeah you know we have 17 precincts we have a lot and that's for sure i need to fan the table a little bit to dry it off [Music] i believe we'll be bringing in our consultant as a zoom member to walk us through the presentation awesome well welcome i think our next agenda item is the review of the sustainability plan update so hi i'm sue bast the environmental specialist and sustainability coordinator for city of burnsville thanks jim just being clean and cautious and tonight we're going to talk about the sustainability plan uh ted redmond from pale blue dot uh is helping us uh cons uh the consultant that's helping us develop the sustainability plan and he will be going through the process that we've taken up to this point and what's going to be coming up later and as you've heard from deb we are aligning the sustainability plan with the comprehensive plan and natural resources management plan water resources plans so we're looking at all those and making sure that all of those are in line with what we're doing and with that we'll have ted go start going through what we've done so far ed i will be um clicking so hopefully excellent you can go ahead right ahead and click on the next slide hi everybody i'm ted redmond with failed blue dot um so and actually we can go ahead and click past this basically we're just going to walk through the whole plan uh but before i did that i thought it might be nice to just kind of give you a sense as to who i am so as i said my name is ted redman i'm an architect an urban planner and a renewable energy consultant and pale blue dot which is my firm my wife and i uh the services that we focus on are climate planning sustainability and resilience planning and renewable energy planning and in the last five years we've done 45 or so planning projects in 1920 states or so next slide please so um this uh we just kind of touching a little bit on uh process and background uh for a little bit of uh background here this plan is an update to the burnsville city of burnsville's 2009 sustainability guide plan it's a revisit refresh and revision which will help to guide the sustainability of the community both city operations and community-wide for the next 10 years some of the funding a little bit of the funding came through the mpca through a grant which was awarded in 2018 for an environmental assistance grant uh focusing on climate adaptation planning so that enabled us to integrate climate adaptation into this plan as well next slide please the development of the plan had a few levels of engagement the first level of engagement was direct to the community we had a community-wide survey that was done online survey as well as some in-person survey with some 220 respondents uh over a number of months uh as well as in-person interviews uh one-on-one uh conversations and an idea board uh at a few of the events uh in the city uh last summer next slide there's also also a stakeholder contributor team awesome team of people some 25 folks or so that had two days worth of workshops spread across a couple of months and really gave us a lot of valuable insight feedback and ideas as well as then reviewing a very preliminary draft of the plan that you're about to see tonight next slide and then of course uh the planning team uh which was uh you know about a dozen 13 14 folks from the city who really went above and beyond uh these folks went through four or five half day workshop sessions uh a couple hour long meetings in addition to that and then a whole bunch of personal time uh really refining and developing the plan collaboratively so i i would like to thank that group they did an awesome job led this led by su here just a great job and a lot of input next slide please as a basis prior to getting into the technical development of the plan we did a few what i like to call baseline assessment documents the first was the climate vulnerability assessment which was actually done a couple years ago through an mpca grant and then as a part of this project we also did a sustainability baseline assessment which looked at sustainability considerations metrics from energy consumption to heat island to ground cover etc across the city that enabled us to identify some preliminary potential goals to just share with the planting group and then we also did a tree canopy uh ground cover and carbon sequestration study uh which also helped us then quantify heat island impacts across the city so those three documents really provided us a good background so where we are now is we have the final drafts of science sustainability plan it's available for public review and common um and it's available through a website link which is there right there it's on our website pale blue dot period llc backslash burnsville dash sgp dash review dash menu and so folks can go and take a review of every section and they're broken apart there's just many surveys people can give us any any kind of feedback or review that they would like on individual sections or the whole thing as they wish and for folks that take the survey before september 14th we have some awesome prizes to win we've got uh 12 prizes that people will be entered into so we're really hoping to get a lot of people to uh review that that draft planet and give us feedback thanks okay so before we get into the sustainability plan uh itself i wanted to just go uh go through a little bit of the climate impact uh projections uh for the city and so looking back since about 1950 the city of burnsville has had an annual increase of temperatures about 1.4 degrees we've had an increase in annual precipitation of about 11 very importantly an increase in heavy precipitation of 58 an increase in days above 95 of one additional per year a decrease in freezing days of 12. next slide looking forward though into through the end of this century uh assuming we don't uh change our emissions here globally uh we can anticipate an increase in annual average temperature of up to 90 degrees fahrenheit precipitation the models vary some models show a little less precipitation some show more precipitation all of them show though an increase in variability and an increase in the days between rain events and an increase in the size of rain events and we do get them so an increase in heavy precipitation of about 30 percent we can anticipate an increase of days above 95 of 56 more days a year above 95 and about 50 days fewer below freezing and an increase in air conditioning demand of about 293 percent next slide please uh we can also um infer a little bit about uh extreme weather events looking back over the last 20 years we've seen an increase from the the second decade over the first decade of 46 more extreme weather events happening in dakota county uh with an average annual uh actually this is a total economic damage of 206 million dollars over that 20-year period next slide please with climate change i like to put this in the perspective of kind of a city moving because our climate is going to be changing uh it's going to be much more similar to trinities to the south so i think of it in terms of the road ahead next slide please so over the next over the coming decades every decade from here until the end of the century we can anticipate our weather changing to the extent of uh what would be similar to picking the city up and moving it south 15 miles every year or roughly 217 feet every day from now until the end of the century and then certainly beyond if we don't get our emissions under control next slide so that means by the middle of this century our weather is going to be similar to southern iowa or northern missouri next slide and by the end of the century we're going to be similar to oklahoma or even northern texas by the end of the century next slide when we talk about climate change we focus a lot on vulnerable populations the reason for that is that all folks have vulnerabilities to these changes that we're talking about but there are people amongst us neighbors and community members amongst us that are particularly vulnerable or could be particularly vulnerable to climate change and so in terms of climate planning if we can address those vulnerabilities more successfully that means that we all will become less vulnerable to those impacts and so listing them out there the folks that uh groupings tend to be more sensitive to climate change impacts children older adults individuals with disabilities those in economic stress uh people of color uh at-risk workers folks we think of folks that you know from frontline workers or folks that work outside food insecure individuals and individuals without vehicle access so those are the folks that you'll see in our plan when you go through the details of it there are a lot of actions that focus on on those uh individuals next slide um just kind of looking at the range of vulnerabilities out there the vulnerabilities that were perhaps that are higher potential impacts for the community are heat stress storm water management and as this diagram calls it out housing it's things like just imagine vulnerable individuals that may live in slightly older homes that perhaps have older insulation or not fully insulated homes and as temperatures increase extreme weather events become more and more common tree downage and so forth the damage and the challenge related to our housing infrastructure is a vulnerability to be addressed and our medium impacts our air quality impacts and mental health impacts next slide please we can actually quantify some of those impacts through the end of the century this is uh from a study from university of california at berkeley and looking at agricultural impacts uh mortality impacts energy usage increases productivity related to heat increases property crime and violent crime all of those have actually a fair bit of scientific data behind them and uc berkeley has a study that's really projected that out in great detail across the country and looking at burnsville by the end of the year we can anticipate 12 million dollars in additional annual impact every year for the city of burnsville based on those metrics alone and those are in today's dollars that figure by the way does not include increases to illness or disease or in damage to property due to uh increased storm weather events next slide please so now getting into the plan itself the plan goals the sustainability plan continues to be aligned with the city's environmental statement and the city council's commitment and i won't go ahead and read it that's the the city of burnsville will promote development that maintains or enhances economic opportunity and community well-being while protecting and restoring the natural environment upon which people and economies depend sustainability meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs next slide please in addition to that this plan also has city operations and community-wide greenhouse gas reduction goals which are in line with the state of minnesota's goals so that means that the goal to be to reduce community-wide uh greenhouse gas emissions 40 below 2005 levels by 2030 and then 80 below 2005 levels by 2050 so those goals are included in this plan next slide please so and i always like to position uh greenhouse gas reduction goals a little bit to determine how do we know if that's a good goal bad goal how do we judge and of course there's lots of different ways to look at it but i tend to recommend looking at it against the united nations international panel on climate change the ipcc as it's known it's the bellwether climate science collaborative internationally and their most recent study which just came out at the end of last year in november of 2019 they've indicated that if we want to keep global emissions at a 2 degree warming level we need our emissions to drop 25 below 2018 levels if we want to push it down to cap it at a 1.5 degree warming if that's possible we need to aim at a 55 percent reduction uh below 2018 levels by 2030 both of those numbers are by 2030. next slide so our plan actually you can see the green arrow it puts us on track to be between those two at roughly a 1.92 degrees warming so that's saying if the whole globe reduced their emissions in line with burnsville's plan we are in line with the ipcc goals next slide so this little diagram here is called a wedge diagram it just illustrates the that very top line that is a dashed line on the left hand side and then becomes a the top of that sort of rust colored line that highest level is what we would call businesses usual emissions that's saying that if we didn't do any additional planning or additional work uh and just the existing commitments that are out there from excel and so forth that's where we would anticipate burnsville's emissions to be by 2030 and then those colored wedges that carve down into that represent the emission reductions that are in the plan related to residential electric consumption reduction renewable energy for residents and businesses uh natural gas reductions for businesses solid waste reductions etc and if we just look at the total reductions by share that little diagram shows there you know roughly we've got 26 percent out of transportation roughly 35 out of energy building energy efficiencies and roughly 39 out of renewable energy uh community-wide next slide please so i also like to hit on the benefits of sustainability planning there's a number of them they can be summarized by talking about job creation and economic development potential which often comes with sustainability strategies improved air quality and public health cost savings for residents and businesses improved energy resilience improved water quality in ecosystems and improved community resilience so a successful implementation of the community-wide sustainability plan would have some benefits in each of those categories actually next slide there is also our ability to sort of quantify the economic potential or impact of this plan and this is a relatively conservative projection what we have before you is the uh if with the successful implementation of the goals of this plan we can anticipate a household energy saving or household savings of almost 60 million dollars cumulatively between now and 2030 business savings potential of just a little under 50 million dollars and uh by reducing our carbon we're avoiding some of those future impacts and so using the state of minnesota average uh avoided cost of carbon value almost 20 million dollars worth of avoided cost of carbon so that means that this plan when successfully implemented has an economic potential of 126 million dollars for burnsville accumulatively between now and 2030. and that value does not include the potential of job creation or new business potential represented in some of the actions next slide so the framework of the plan uh there are 10 [Music] sections sectors of actions displayed before you there and those sectors all have some impacts beyond general broad sustainability they all also have impacts in greenhouse gas emission reductions or climate adaptation or both and so little diagrams underneath them if it's a little industrial smoke stack that means it's got reductions of greenhouse gas emissions if it's got the little sort of circling arrows that means it's got climate adaptation actions involved in it as well next slide please each of those sectors have then strategies high-level strategies or goals which are specific statements of direction that expand on the climate action vision greenhouse gas reduction goals and overall sustainability goals of the plan actions then are detailed items that should be completed in order to carry out the vision and strategies identified in the plan so actions are very detailed the broader goals and strategies are sort of higher level statements and we also like to point out that the sustainability plan should be a living document and updated reviewed with some regularity and actions tweaked as time goes on next slide please and we go ahead and skip this okay so i i like to go through what i call the anatomy of a plan section because it's a big plan and uh clearly i don't want to for you too much by going through all the sections in great detail but i want you to understand what's in each section so that as you're looking at it you'll know what to look at so next slide so each section begins with a little introductory a couple paragraphs of introduction talking about why is this section an important section related to sustainability uh there are equity considerations that are called out uh things that we should be keeping in mind related to equity impacts that relate to this section uh we also have a little bit of shove outs of some success stories that burnsville has already completed in in that subject section section next page we then also have some of the uh background sustainability uh information from the baseline assessments so it's kind of a baseline understanding of where are we today on some of the indicators sustainability indicators of that section next page and then we follow up with the goals and detailed overarching strategies for this section and for each of the strategies we then also call out how can we measure ourselves in the future so what are the metrics that we can measure success with and then finally we have detailed actions for each of those goals and strategies and with each of those actions we call out their potential benefits related to economic potential greenhouse gas emission reduction potential for climate adaptation potential next slide and then every section ends with a what can you do uh sort of pointer to kind of call down all those actions into like the top top ideas that businesses or residents or households can also participate in next slide please so um i thought we would then hit each of those 10 sections kind of high level and give you a sense of the goals uh and strategies that are in those sections but not necessarily the detailed actions because there's frankly there's too many to hit a short presentation next slide so with buildings and energies uh the building and energy efficiency i should say there are four primary goals uh a 10 decrease in residential and commercial electrical use from 2016 numbers by 2030 that's community-wide a 5 reduction in residential and commercial natural gas use by 2030 again community-wide then to improve total city-owned building energy efficiency by ten percent uh electricity and seven percent natural gas by 2030 so that's city-owned facilities and then lastly to achieve a minimum of one net zero ready or net zero city-owned facility by 2030 next slide under community health next slide the there are five primary goals developing a standardized educational program on ways to improve health of citizens to meet or exceed the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from city operations by 40 percent while encouraging the public to reduce emissions and pollutants to educate employees on current environmental policies and develop new policies and areas that are lacking to develop a standardized educational program on ways to improve conservation and pollution reduction and to explore more options to reduce heat island uh roof effects and educate public and businesses about potential effects and areas for improvement next slide so for fleet and equipment three primary goals emissions and fuel reductions for city operations reducing the fleet size associated and associated costs for city operations and then lastly influencing the private sector to sort of echo those goals next slide for grown cover there are three primary goals to increase tree cover and that's diversity not diversity city-wide so that would be citywide tree canopy coverage goal of 33 percent by 2030 and 37 by 2040. increase the use of native species and pollinator restoration areas so those two goals get actually at the question that was raised in the last presentation about that the sort of dueling goals that actually are both they can be compatible together trees and pollinator grasslands and lastly to reduce the heat island effect next slide please so for land use there are three primary goals increase acres of transit oriented development by 10 by 2030 increase acres of mixed-use zoning development by 10 uh by 2030 and open space land use area to increase that from 45 100 acres to 4 700 acres by 2030 next slide please local food two driving goals by 2030 to increase the total number of community gardens with a priority given to neighborhoods with limited food access limited vehicle access and elevated poverty levels to six so increasing the total number of gardens to six and by 2030 increasing the total number of farmers markets with a priority given to again those neighborhoods with limited resources up to at least two next slide please on renewable energy we have a 7.5 percent on-site solar or renewable energy per uh purchase for residential and commercial by 2030 that's city-wide 7.5 percent on-site solar a five percent increase in residential and commercial fuel switch so that means taking natural gas burning devices and swapping them over for electric electrical devices or others and then achieving 100 renewable energy for all electricity electric use for the city owned facilities by 2030. next slide please in solid waste against three driving goals one reducing waste in city operations and to work towards an 85 percent diversion rate to increase residential recycling and waste reduction and to promote commercial and multi-family recycling next slide for transportation there are four increasing public transit ridership from 4.5 to 6 percent of commuters by 2030 to increase uh walk and bike transportation to uh one half percent of commuting by 2030 which sounds like a small number but that's actually um that'll be a positive achievement um third to increase electric uh vehicle adoption to ten percent of city-wide vehicle share by 2030 so we want 10 of the vehicles on the road by 2030 to be evs and then lastly to achieve a bicycle-friendly community bronze level by 2028. next slide please and the last technical section that is water uh the four uh primary driving goals there are to protect groundwater resources to meet burnsville tmdl goals for allen magnet and keller lakes to encourage water reuse and to promote low impact development and green infrastructure approaches okay next slide so now let's just touch a little bit on the implementation and monitoring section which kind of wraps up the plan next slide the first thing kind of an overarching statement that i like to point out when it comes to implementation of a plan like this is that implementation is for everyone a sustainability plan is a little bit different from lots of other plants because for us to be successful at community-wide changes we really need community-wide involvement and participation so that's certainly city council city staff city commissions like yourself but also businesses households and individuals we need participation across the board to really make change happen across the board in the community next slide please so uh in the implementation section we've thrown out some recommendations uh the first set of recommendations relate to building internal capacity to sort of continue on building the plan so those recommendations are to establish clear guidance and direction for the participation in and the support of the sustainability plan by all city of burnsville departments so let's make sure all the departments are aware of this plan and are participating in it where appropriate for their department we also recommend funding and supporting sustainability staffing required to support the implementation make sure that we continue to have the ability to have staffing proper for the plan third assemble or conduct a community-wide greenhouse gas inventory on a regular basis so now the city's been doing a great job of doing that for city operations this is saying let's also make sure that we look at city-wide emissions on a regular basis and it could be every two years um one year is great but two years is fine could go every three years if you need to but that will help us understand are we on track or not on track for our goals and then lastly to review the sustainability implementation progress and impacts on a regular basis it could be every year or every two years i wouldn't suggest going any further than that so that actions can be tweaked those actions that are really making great headway can you add them up a little bit more those actions that aren't quite panning out the way everybody thought they might how can they be tweaked so that they could be even more successful next slide please we also have recommendations related to external support or external engagement if you will the first is that we're recommending that this commission uh would be identified as the main citizen body to support the implementation of the plan um next we're recommending the established establishing jurisdictional partnerships that advance the sustainability plan strategies uh to advance and accelerate action so that's like connecting with the county with the met council with school district and so forth and creating relationships or continuing to build those relationships specific to this plan for some joint collaboration next slide please we also have some suggestions related to funding the first is to maintain a budget and identify funding sources for staff dedicated to the implementation of the sustainability plan just make sure that that's squared away secondly to identify a budget necessary to support projects on an annual basis so selecting projects add individual actions on an annual basis and then make sure that whatever funding may be required for those are established and then lastly of course let's utilize no cost technical assistance offerings as available and there are certainly opportunities out there as grants and other resources available through the state etc next slide please so uh in the implementation and monitoring plan every single one of those actions then uh is brought back up again but then with each action we've identified collaboratively an estimated budget need if any for those actions we've identified the implementing agency whether it's the city or a community partner that should perhaps lead the implementation of that we've also identified who is the suggested department responsible city department responsible for engaging that action or following up on that and also staff responsible those are usually identified as roles but in some cases they're actually individuals but usually it's a role so that's been identified for every single action in the plan so that implementation can kind of hit the ground running with each department exploring those actions and beginning to make their own implementation plans for actions that they can do in 2021 and the year after that and so forth next slide also included in the report is a link we have assembled you'll see throughout the actions there are some suggestions to establishing a policy for this or tweaking an ordinance for that so our team has actually compiled a host of example policies and ordinances that relate to almost every one of those suggestions in there if we're talking about touching a policy or an ordinance we have examples that we've compiled for the city to use as research and so that's linked into the plan next slide and then lastly i'm just going to uh i'm going to talk my words again here and promote folks taking the survey everybody watching uh certainly you commissioners and families and friends and so forth we would love to get inundated with review comments uh it's the way we can help make sure we get everybody's input as we move from a draft plan to a final plan uh just a reminder that actually folks that take it before september 14th we do have some prizes a little boost for getting in early on your review comments and again that link on how to find that all right i'll yield the floor to any questions uh please any questions from any commissioners um that was a whole lot of data that was a lot of information very good information um i guess this is more maybe to jj in the city what is the process from here then um it goes to city council or review the survey then the city council approves it and then it just seems like so much to do how does the city actually prioritize what to jump on i'm going to defer to sue and daryl on that question and hopefully sue can give us the information um we do have a sustainability team that was listed on there and uh that's where a lot of the prioritization starts with you know taking a look at what we can do what we need to do and go from there and with direction from city council so yeah so right now obviously the draft plan is coming here we've got public comment open right now um you know with uh the covid stuff the plan is a little bit behind schedule from what we planned the summer things moved a little slower than we anticipated um but i think the goal right now is to try to kind of get through this process with public feedback feedback from the commission and have something to bring to city council september september september october yeah so it's uh we're kind of getting to that point where we're trying to take what we've put in there and get reactions to it and and then make tweaks as we go so when you say bring something to city council is that not only like the specific actions that we anticipate in the next one to three years versus 10 years plus that type of thing but also budget implications for that as well or what would that overall are you talking about like this entire plan to city council or like specific implementation of what some of this stuff might look like right now it's the plan to bring to city council and as we start looking at implementation that's when budget would come into play okay yeah and we do you know as you know the city is in the budget process right now for 2021. um and so the public works director and myself we have included some of the dollars in the 2021 budget to start implementation of this plan so this is kind of going through at the same time as some of those budget talks and so um you know we'll see city council has seen this you know we had a work session with them in the beginning where they outlined some of their goals and some things that they wanted to see in the plan so it's not like there has city council hasn't had discussions on this or something so uh we're hoping as this goes through that uh you know we'll be able to provide a plan that meets the goals that they set out and then that will also be able to get some funding to start some projects uh one of the things i noticed i did receive an email this today from sue and and i did the web the web links work and it looks like the questionnaire is pretty straightforward how broadly did this get distributed since i got it as a citizen did it do you have a large mailing list that it goes to above people finding it on the website um yes we sent we sent this out in the burnsville bulletin recently about a week ago so that goes to all the residents plus we have a number of different uh uh committees that uh we have sent it to um the previous if the first uh survey that we did last year where there were 200 and some participants in that survey that's probably what you got today we sent it to all those people that took the survey last year and so sent it to them and burnsville employees so we're trying to reach out to everyone we can and asking them to you know take a look and give us their reaction and if you can think of others please let me know you know i think i'm sure the business community will want to have them on board um you know certainly aware chamber of commerce uh convention bureau great idea yeah that's great all kind of you know we need their input it's we need a good you know we need buy-in because in many cases it looks like we'll be able this could potentially be a money-saving thing and uh economic boost as well so i guess you need to get them on thank you any other questions or comments from any of the commissioners anyone online jj i'm seeing nobody on online how does the landfill kind of communications and seems like delay in terms of one that's actually going to get closed and then the expansion of the quarry which is recently announced how does that figure into this plan because that's still kind of in the we don't know a definitive like end date for that i see in the plan that we have it as like 10 years plus but it almost seems like that's 20 years plus that type of thing at this point so how does that get figured into a plan like this just knowing that there's a lot of that reference and some of these action items well the i mean some of the information with the quarry is is relatively new um this plan was started last year but a lot of the goals are trying to be focused on either city operations itself or kind of the burnsville community as a whole and those two i mean there are two very big players up in the north part of the city and i think you're right they the quarry obviously go city council tomorrow night and i know the the burnsville landfill is in process with uh some applications so there still are things to be decided with those two um but it is possible that they will be in operation for at you know quite a while into the future and if they are then we'll just have you know like uh ted mentioned this is something that needs to be reviewed every so often and updated and and as things change and we need to change in the plan so maybe my question is to mr redmond do we feel like we'd be able to make a sizeable reduction without those players having a definitive plan with just the other items that we currently have on the list uh yes i think that's a that's a great question i think the answer is yes um and um also to answer your earlier question related to um how do you prioritize such a uh so many things that need to get done and actually in the implementation section you'll see that they're each action has a priority level one two and three and those priorities are kind of a potpourri of reasons sometimes they are a high priority because it's very impactful and so we really want to get going on that action sometimes it's a first level priority because it's foundational like if you can do this first you can then do that next action because you've done that foundational action and sometimes a an action might be a little bit lower not because it isn't important but because there's other time skills involved so for instance with the landfill and the quarry those things are very important but there's lots of other players with other schedules that impact our ability to do a lot necessarily on some of those individual actions so you'll see that some of those may be like a priority two or three not meaning that they're not important but just saying let's put our focus on other actions which can be done more immediately and that isn't to say that an action which is a lower priority you just forget about you want to monitor it and kind of review it every time you you go through review just double check has any status change that would make that now priority number one for next year thank you any other questions all right thank you very much and i don't think we need a recommendation to adopt is that right jj we do not this was informational only and commissioners i would remind you that the sustainability update is on our annual list of of things that we will review i don't see us changing that and moving that out to every two years sue correct me if i'm wrong i think we'd like to have you back every year where you can provide us information on the accomplishments that you know we've achieved over the past year and then maybe talk to us a little bit more about some of the targeted goals you have for the for the upcoming year and that's where i think you know some of the conversations on those moving targets about what are we doing with the landfill and the quarry those can happen at that point in time throughout the year as they finalize this report it's going to change the day after it's uh the ink is dry so we can get those reports on an annual basis so okay thank you thank you all right with that we'll move on to our last agenda item which is miscellaneous anything from staff jj that we want to cover uh commissioners not only uh i i failed to add the fire station groundbreaking uh fire station one groundbreaking event is going to take place next monday the 24th at four o'clock i'll be on the corner of newton avenue and 143rd um please please attend you're welcome to attend and then our next scheduled meeting is on september 7th that that that was all i had for miscellaneous items all right sounds great so with that i think we can motion to adjourn so second all right so jj do we have to do a roll call for this one we do commissioner angara hi commissioner arnold aye commissioner cleveland aye commissioner donaldson aye commissioner fitchat aye mr newman aye mr wollman aye very good thank you commissioners so moved thank you guys and have a great night you