The Austin City Council passed a resolution
on Feb 15, 2024, directing the City Manager and
the Joint Sustainability Committee (JSC) to develop recommendations for a Environmental Investment Plan that will provide funding to close the gap between currently
available resources and what is needed to implement the many ambitious sustainability
plans and achieve the sustainability goals that the city has adopted. Please use this form to share your ideas with the JSC. Because the JSC will need to vote on final recommendations at its
April 24 meeting, we will best be able to incorporate ideas that are shared with
the commission by the end of March.
Projects, programs, and investments will be prioritized that:
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Reduce
carbon emissions
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Decrease
water usage and improve water quality and detention
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Advance
the sustainability of City operations
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Improve
community resilience
These project ideas can come from the following city plans:
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Austin Climate
Equity Plan
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Austin Water
Forward
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Watershed
Protection Strategic Plan
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One
Austin: Climate Resilience Action Plan
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Austin
Strategic Mobility Plan
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Austin Resource Recovery Comprehensive
Plan
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Austin
Energy Resource, Generation and Climate Protection Plan
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Austin
Parks and Recreation Long Range Plan
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Austin
Parks and Recreation Land Management Plan (Recommended Land Management
Strategies and Climate Vulnerability Analysis)
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Austin/Travis
County Community Wildfire Protection Plan
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Central
Texas Regional Air Quality Plan
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Austin/Travis
County Food Plan (under development)
We want to hear from you about what should be prioritized. Providing details isn't required, but will help us move your recommendation forward.
The intention of this effort is to go beyond business-as-usual
spending or incremental annual progress. We are tasked with identifying
the delta between our current trajectory and fully meeting our council-adopted
environmental goals. Focus on proposals where we can easily defend how an
investment would achieve the goal. The final product delivered to Council
in May will be a full menu of projects and programs with costs that could be
funded in various ways to move the needle on climate change mitigation and
sustainability in the next 5-10 years. Council will then work between May and August to match projects with available funding sources.
The JSC will host a public hearing at 6pm on March 27 in the City Council chambers to get input from the community. Please email rohan.lilauwala@austintexas.gov by noon on Wednesday, March 27 to sign up to speak remotely. In-person speakers can sign up at the meeting as long as there are still speakers in line.
