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Sustainable economy

With the addition of Prost coming to Northglenn, the city may be home to one of the most sustainable and technologically advanced breweries in the country.

In addition to Prost, 80 new businesses have opened and they created 205 new jobs in 2021. Also, 95 businesses participated in Xcel energy programs in 2021 and seven received energy assessments. e committee did remove the goal of Northglenn becoming a Smart City and Leighty asked why.

“Our economic development department didn’t want that goal in Sustainable Economy. e city is still a member of the Smart Cities alliance, but we haven’t participated heavily throughout the alliance in the last few years, mostly because of sta capacity,” Smith said.

Human dignity

With the committee noting that environmental justice was missing from this section of the plan, they decided to add goals, indicators and targets with help from the Diversity, Inclusivity and Social Equity Board. ey will meet with the board to discuss how to move forward.

Some of their achievements in this category include the opening of the Recreation Center, Senior Center and Parsons eatre. e whole complex has seen drop-in rates almost double from 2019. Smith also cited the creation of the Crisis Response Unit in 2021 as an accomplishment.

Transportation e city has been working on multi-modal transportation options, which includes lining 6.41 miles of road with on-street bike lanes. By 2025, their goals is to increase the number of students biking or walking to school by 25% ey’ve also opened 35 new bike racks, and 11 residents are in the Smart Commute Metro North eBike program.

Teleworking is also a goal, with hopes to see the number of city employees working from home at least one day per week increasing by 20% in 2025. As well, they hope to see transit ridership numbers go up by 30% by 2030.