Options Database

Create technology for real-time feedback about water supply to customers.

Create a template presentation about water quality to share among partners. The presentation could focus on golf courses and other commercial properties.

Create or update a community water plan to accommodate variability in well water quality.

Create or update a trails master plan to account for climate change impacts such as increased erosion due to precipitation or sea level rise.

Create updated local flood maps to support planning, policy, and regulation.

Create an urban forestry program or position to maintain and improve tree canopy.

Create a water efficiency task force to monitor water use and to identify and implement water saving measures.

Create a watershed reinvestment fund to support restoration after wildfires.

Creating community spaces where meetings and movement-building activities can occur.

Creation or identification of alternative recreation sites

Decentralize energy supplies and energy storage capacity to improve energy independence.

Define steep slope and areas at high risk of landslides in land use and comprehensive plans.

Design and construct additional Capital Improvements - Green & Gray Infrastructure to provide a reliable water supply to 1.7 million customers.

Design of built environment, tree canopy, transportation (how to move). Opening community centers, education, water, building social/community plans, how elders work within community neighbor networks. >>design of built environment and increase tree canopy

Design policies and incentives for private landowners, businesses and landlords to plant native species and reduce the use of fossil fuel derived fertilizers and pesticides.

Design program incentives for landlords to install rain-capturing devices (e.g., rain barrels, cisterns) for onsite irrigation and to promote groundwater recharge at public facilities.

Design program policies to promote stream and wetland restoration. Ensure adequate retention, drainage and diversion of stormwater. Such policies could also encourage green infrastructure such as grassy areas along roadsides or other actions to absorb or retain stormwater.

Design roadways, bridges and utilities with protective measures (e.g., elevate bridges, build protective berms) to account for future flooding projections.

Designate adaptation action areas, restoration areas and growth areas as a priority-setting tool for vulnerable areas. Designating these areas can guide people and commerce to less vulnerable places in the region.

Designate ecologically important areas as “permanent natural features.”