City of Emeryville Environmental Programs Update April 2, 2013 City Council Study Session

Environmental Division Programs

1. Energy Efficiency and Renewables 2. Green Building 3. Bicycling, Walking and Transit 4. Creeks, Bay and Stormwater 5. Recycling and Composting 6. Water Conservation 7. Litter, Bags and Packaging 8. Bay Friendly Landscaping and Gardening 9. Urban Forestry 10. Green Business 11. Sign Ordinance Red = Program required by State or County Regulation

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Green Vision: Guiding Documents, Ordinances & Policies

General Plan – Sustainability Element – United Nations: Urban Environmental Accords Climate Action Plan Pedestrian and Bicycle Plan Urban Design Guidelines Street Furniture Catalog Civic Green Building and Bay Friendly Landscaping Resolution Stormwater Ordinance and Green Development Guidelines Eco-Food Ware Ordinance Solid Waste Ordinance Construction and Demolition Materials Recycling Ordinance Waste Management Franchise Agreement

1. Energy Efficiency and Renewables

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Goals:

Reduce Energy Use in Buildings by 25% by 2020 Increase Renewable Energy Use by 25% by 2020 Reduce GHG Emissions related to Energy Usage by 25% by 2020 • • • • • •

Status

Building Energy Use up by 7.2% (2005-2011) (Natural Gas up 13.6% - Electricity up 1.7%) 2011 alone, Gas up 8.3% - Electricity up 4.8% 19 Solar PV systems with 1,235 kW of capacity installed between 2005- 2011 are now generating over 2 million kWh/year. This electricity now represents 1% of total used in Emeryville, the same as PG&E’s power mix.

PG&E’s renewable power mix is up from 9% to 19% (2004-2011) 15 million kWh saved in Emeryville (8,822 tons CO2e) through PG&E’s Energy Efficiency programs (2006-2011) Biotech, Offices, Hospitality, High Tech and Manufacturing/Transportation were the five largest energy use sectors representing 80% of all energy usage in 2011.

2. Green Building

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Goal:

Increase the Performance of Buildings City-wide by using certification, commissioning and benchmarking products from the US Green Building Council, EPA and Build It Green.

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Status

12 Buildings LEED Certified 9 Buildings Energy Star Certified 2 Buildings Green Point Rated 17 Buildings Benchmarked with EPA’s Portfolio Manager The City benchmarked all it’s buildings in 2005. City Hall has low score and went down in 2009.

The City’s new Police Station is expected to receive LEED Silver certification- 1 st City Building to be LEED certified.

Emeryville Businesses participating in Berkeley Benchmarking Awards program this summer.

3. Bicycling, Walking and Transit

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Goal:

Increase Bike Trips Increase Walking Trips Increase Transit Trips • • • • • •

Status:

Cyclists counted on Bike to Work Day tripled between 2006 and 2012 Emery Go Round trips up 10% in Fall of 2012 and vehicles at capacity.

Bike Racks on all Emery Go Round Vehicles.

New Ped-Bike Plan adopted.

Sidewalks all over the City are being replaced for ADA compliance.

New Signal Timing in Summer ‘13 will provide better clearance times for Bikes and Peds and Signal Pre-emption for EGR

4. Creeks, Bay and Stormwater

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Goals:

Reduce flooding, treat stormwater with vegetation and promote watershed awareness to the Emeryville Community Continue to meet other Regional Water Board requirements and report annually on programs • • • •

Status:

80 rain gardens and 6 green roofs in the City.

Stormwater Leader in California San Pablo Ave Green Streets Project at Apgar and West MacArthur in design phase.

62 nd -64 th Street Alameda County Flood Control Project completed.

5. Recycling and Composting

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Goal:

Reduce waste going to landfill by 50% from 2004 to 2020 (from 16,000 tons to 8,000 tons.) Ensure that construction projects comply with State Recycling law Continue to meet State Diversion goals and report annually on programs.

Status:

Tons Landfilled: 2005: 15,485 2006: 11,426 2007: 14,480 2008: 12,917 2009: 12,221 2010: 12,940 2011: 10,372 2012: 10,959* • • *estimated WMAC is required to meet the goal in the franchise agreement.

The City opted in to the Countywide Mandatory Recycling Ordinance.

6. Water Conservation

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Goal:

Reduce Per Capita Potable Water Consumption by 30% by 2030 over 2008 levels (Per cap use was 67,304 gallons per year in 2008) Ensure that Construction projects comply with State and City Water Efficient Landscape Requirements.

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Status:

EBMUD annual water budget reports for City landscapes.

All City Landscapes Bay Friendly Maintained.

City-owned property water use down by 16% (draft 2008-2011) Avg Emeryville resident used 67 gallons/day in 2008 vs. CA avg of 119 gpd (fewer yards.) Adopted Bay Friendly Water Efficient Landscape Ord. in Jan. ‘12 to reduce water.

City-wide water use down by 8% (2008-2011) – Probably caused by the Recession.

7. Litter, Bags and Packaging

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Goal:

Reduce litter by 75% by 2017 over 2009 levels from the MRP.

Reduce, Compost and Recycle food packaging and food waste from caterers, restaurants and other food related businesses.

Ban Single Use Plastic Shopping bags and Increase Use of Re-usable Bags Install Trash Capture Devices for 16 acres of land area by June 30 2014.

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Status:

To achieve litter reduction requirements, Litter crews (SWAP) picked up an estimated 160,000 gallons or 101 tons of trash around the City in 2011.

Plastic shopping bags gone and a 10 cent fee for paper bags on 1/1/13 at the City’s 11 packaged food stores. The City’s Eco-Foodware Ordinance - one of the most progressive in the Bay Area.

Pixar installed rain garden on Park Ave which is collecting trash and 64 th and Christie project to install device as part of their project.

8. Bay Friendly Landscaping/Gardening

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Goal:

Promote Bay Friendly Landscaping and Gardening Require BFL for all new parks and Maintenance Increase sustainability of Landscapes in the City by verifying and rating sites using Bay Friendly scoring • • • • • •

Status:

City adopted Bay Friendly Water Efficient Landscaping Ordinance Pixar using BFL Maintenance City has two Bay Friendly Parks with two more in process and uses BF Maintenance company City participates in Bay Friendly Garden Tours each year Four City staff certified in Bay Friendly Design and Maintenance.

Water use down by 16% on City owned properties (2008-2011)

9. Urban Forest

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Goal:

Increase Urban Canopy and Tree Planting.

Upgrade soil conditions for existing trees.

Conduct Tree Inventories every four years.

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Status:

Park Ave project planted over 100 new trees.

3572 trees city-wide in 2008.

Existing tree conditions improved at several sites such as 1275 Park Ave.

City wide Tree Trimming completed in 2012.

10. Green Business

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Goals:

Increase number of businesses certified Support and Promote the Green Business Program •

Status:

Businesses certified: 2002: 0 2012: 27 As a % of all businesses, Emeryville is 2 nd after Berkeley in Alameda County.

11. Sign Ordinance

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Goal:

Require businesses to get a permit to display signs in the public right of way in sidewalk areas.

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Status:

This is not an Environmental Program, but due to limited staffing this duty has been assigned to EP staff.

Four permits have been issued. Several businesses have removed signs, altered their sign location or otherwise complied with the ordinance.

Enforcement is complaint driven or as discovered by staff, so other businesses could be violating the ordinance.

Summary: Climate Change

• Goal: Reduce GHG emissions by 25% over 2004 levels by 2020.

• Status: 2004 to 2010 Inventory Results: Community Wide: Overall Emissions: Down 8% Energy Usage: Up 4% Energy Emissions: Down 1% Transportation Emissions: Down 13% Waste Emissions: Down 15% Municipal Operations: Overall Emissions: Up 14% Energy Emissions: Up 16% Vehicle Fleet Emissions: Up 12% Waste Emissions: Up 15% • • • • • 2011: Community Energy Emissions: Down Community Energy Usage: Up 6.5% The Recession is over The biggest one-year spike in 7 years.

Wet Season reduces emissions PG&E’s power mix getting greener

Other Trends, Regulations & Factors Regarding Climate Change

• • • • CALIFORNIA: CalGreen: Building code raising the bar by 30% on 1/1/14 PG&E Power Mix: 30% RPS by 2020 East Bay Energy Watch/BayRen: More funding for programs SB375: Regional Transportation Plans Investing in Transit, Bike and Ped infrastructure – Complete Streets requirements • • • • FEDERAL: EPA Car Standards - Increases in MPG Higher Gasoline Prices Natural Gas Prices: coal and diesel Electrification of Fleet Vehicle charging stations and hybrids • • • EMERYVILLE: Per Capita type metrics: The City is growing: As projected in the General Plan, Emeryville’s population is up 35% between 2004 to 2011. The City could look at per capita, per employee or other metrics that take growth into account as opposed to total emission numbers.

Averages: Since the City is 90% multi-family and most of that housing stock is recently built, the City’s average energy use per housing unit is relatively low compared with the CA or National average.

Minimal Commercial and Residential landscaping so water usage is below average.

Recycling-Composting 50% Environmental Technician - Current Time Allocation (17.5 hours per week) Construction and Demolition Plans 25% Events 5% DBE 5% Green Business 5% Schools 5% Litter-Bags-Packaging 5%

Bike-Walk Transit 14% Environmental Programs Analyst - Current Time Allocation (35 hours per week) Creeks-Bay-Stormwater 30% Recycling-Composting 25% Green Building 5% Energy Efficiency 5% Sign Ordinance 1% Urban Forest 5% BFL-Gardening 5% Water Conservation 5% Litter-Bags-Packaging 5%

Discussion

• • • If the Climate Action Plan goals are to be achieved more staff time will need to be allocated to: Energy Efficiency Green Building Active Transportation (Bike, Ped, Transit) Staff time allotments could be shifted, but given regulatory requirements and adopted council priorities, this would be limited.

Discussion – Continued Stormwater Inspections

The City has been contracting with EBMUD to perform the City’s required Commercial Stormwater Inspections. EBMUD has informed the City that the Cost for that program will double in FY 13-14, so the City is considering other options for the inspection work. One option is to contract with County Environmental Health. Another option is to have Environmental program staff take on that work which could cost less.

Discussion - Continued

Option to Consider: • • Increase part time Environmental Technician position to full time to add 17.5 additional hours per week allowing the Environmental Staff to: Bring Stormwater inspections in house Allocate more time to acheive the goals in the Climate Action Plan by focusing on these areas: Energy Efficiency Green Building Bike, Ped and Transit