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energy efficiency standards for new County construction; County operations and maintenance; incentives for energy efficiency in private sector construction; County Land Development Regulations; land use planning; transportation; renewable energy options; and public education.
August 2007, The ECSC recommends that the Alachua County Commission hear Gainesville Regional Utility’s updated presentation of the “red dot report” that included a map and some data depicting an energy intensity overlay of some census blocks in GRU’s territory. Presented by GRU to the 2006 University of Florida Sustainability Conference, and at a Gainesville City Commission meeting.
December 2007, The ECSC recommends that the Alachua County Commission work with the City of Gainesville to promote the use of life-cycle greenhouse gas emission analysis as the primary decision criteria for any waste to energy process that Alachua County or the City of Gainesville considers. The ECSC requests that the Commissions use the life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions data from the U.S. EPA report – Solid Waste Management and Greenhouse Gases (3rd edition, 2007), when performing any waste to energy life-cycle analysis. Cost, economic potential and job creation should be secondary considerations in the waste to energy decision making process.
February 2008, The County Commissioners through the MTPO direct its staff to include in the consultant Scope of Services (for 2035 & future Transportation Plan updates) a requirement that peak oil production and decline variables be reviewed and tested so as to: (1), determine potential future transportation and land use scenarios necessary to mitigate local effects of peak oil production and decline; and (2), recommend alternatives to accomplish transportation and land use mitigation strategies.
April 2008, the Alachua County Commission directs the County Manager and his Finance Team to meet with the ECSC and/or relevant ECSC subcommittees to develop, for Commission consideration, potential financing mechanisms to implement energy efficiencies on a county-wide scale. The ECSC also requests that Alachua County Clerk of Court Buddy Irby participate in development of this financing mechanism.
July 2008, Alachua County becomes a full member of ICLEILocal Governments for Sustainability