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Climate Protection Assistance to Bay Area Local Governments

Climate Protection Assistance to Bay Area Local Governments. CEQA and Climate Change: Partnering with Local Agencies to Combat Global Warming March 20, 2008. Ana Sandoval Principal Environmental Planner Bay Area Air Quality Management District. Local Government Climate Protection Needs.

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Climate Protection Assistance to Bay Area Local Governments

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  1. Climate Protection Assistance to Bay Area Local Governments CEQA and Climate Change: Partnering with Local Agencies to Combat Global Warming March 20, 2008 Ana Sandoval Principal Environmental Planner Bay Area Air Quality Management District

  2. Local Government Climate Protection Needs • Framework and guidance • Definition of expectations • Models: templates, protocols, etc. • Capacity • Subject-specific expertise • On staff or under partnership • Resources to implement • To fund activity, capital • Grants, financing • Support • Mentor and orient

  3. Local Government AssistanceGrant Program • Creating framework and knowledge base • Replication of best practices • Identifying innovative reduction strategies • Planning Process support: 15 Climate Action plans, 7 general plans • Building capacity • 7 new permanent municipal energy staff • Access to intern and consultant assistance • Providing support • Tracking progress and communicating results • Ongoing mentoring

  4. Local Government Assistance Inventory Development • Inventory framework • Refer to established methodology • Capacity building • Training through a workshop series to build in-house expertise • Complement with BAAQMD, ICLEI expertise • Support • Fielding phone calls • Access to Data/Streamline data requests • Provide guidance to data providers

  5. Local Government Assistance Workshop Series • Partnership with ICLEI. Workshops focus on: • Community-wide inventory development Santa Clara, San Mateo, Marin 30 local governments have participated • Municipal level inventory development • Building a climate action plan: Selecting GHG reduction strategies • Other Workshops • EPA – grant seeking and writing • BCDC - Preparing for Sea Level in the Bay Area

  6. Local Government Assistance Regional and State Partnerships • Data partnership with ICLEI, MTC, PG&E, others • JPC Collaboration • ARB Scoping Plan • CCAR Local Government Protocol Development

  7. Local Government Assistance Planning Process • Climate action plans • Best practices • General plans • Field phone inquiries • Drafting Air Quality Element guidelines

  8. Local Government Assistance CEQA Review • Need for framework and guidance • Uncertainty about climate change and CEQA • Attorney General cases • AB 32 scoping plan • CAPCOA sees need to address, publishes CEQA and Climate Change White Paper • Explores threshold options • Presents tools for impact quantification • Presents list of mitigation measures (~100) and their efficacy • Districts will now explore local guidance

  9. Future Work • Grant program • Continue support, track and communicate results • Workshop series • Next steps: municipal inventory training • Partnerships • Build on inventory data partnership • Continue JPC, ARB, CCAR partnerships • Planning and CEQA • General plan Air Quality Element guidelines • CEQA Guidelines development • Local Government focused regional summit in 2009

  10. Partnerships, Inventories Ana Sandoval asandoval@baaqmd.gov 415.749.4667 Grants and Financing Abby Young ayoung@baaqmd.gov 415.749.4754 Planning and CEQA David Vintze dvintze@baaqmd.gov 415.749.5179 Contacts 10

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