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Create
Healthy
Urban Environments
We will improve Seattle's quality of life, protect and restore the environment, and
enhance neighborhood livability.
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Goals
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2004
Actions
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- Create and promote clean, green, livable urban neighborhoods
- Protect and restore Seattle's urban forest
- Protect and help restore lakes, rivers, creeks, and Puget Sound
- "Green" the built environment (buildings, streets,
etc.)
- Help protect and improve local and regional air quality, and
combat global warming
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- Integrate sustainable development practices into major
infrastructure and neighborhood redevelopment efforts (e.g. South
Lake Union, Central Waterfront/Center City, Northgate)
- Launch a new Green Seattle Initiative (expand scope of Clean
Seattle Initiative to include greening in 12 neighborhood
clean-ups/year; other components under development)
- Continue urban forest restoration projects; complete Urban
Forest Management Plan
- Acquire additional open space in the U-District, Denny Triangle,
Pioneer Square, International District, Capitol Hill
- Add two community gardens, focusing in underserved areas
- Continue creek restoration and stewardship programs; complete
Comprehensive Drainage Plan
- Complete natural drainage project in Broadview neighborhood
- Revise/strengthen comprehensive growth management plan and
Environmentally Critical Areas Ordinance (ECAO)
- Partner with Puget Sound Clean Air Agency on clean air
initiatives (e.g. no idling) and regional global warming action
plan
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A key to a more sustainable
Puget Sound
region is to channel the increasing numbers of people, jobs, and
households into already urbanized areas and away from rural areas, farms and
forestlands, and other green spaces. For
this growth management strategy to succeed, we must keep our urban
environments clean, attractive and livable.
The Healthy Urban Environments component of the Mayor’s
Environmental Action Agenda works to: protect what’s left of Seattle’s
natural systems, including the urban forest, creeks and watersheds, green
spaces, and wildlife habitat; and look for opportunities to restore these
natural systems as neighborhood plans are implemented, urban infrastructure
is updated, buildings are erected or remodeled, and large areas of the city
are redeveloped
"As we shore up our basic infrastructure and implement our
neighborhood plans, we'll have great opportunities to try some new
approaches to design and construction that are smarter, more efficient, more
durable, and better for both our communities and the environment."
Mayor Greg Nickels
Links
Agenda
Brochure
2004
Environmental Action Agenda Brochure (PDF 205.9 KB)
Agenda
Summary
2004
Environmental Action Agenda Summary (PDF 73.9 KB)
Complete
Agenda
2004
Environmental Action Agenda Targets & Indicators (PDF
213.1 KB)
Special
Report
Ecological
Footprint of an Urban Household (PDF 137 KB)
Environmental Education
Camp
Long nature center - Parks
Carkeek
Park environmental education center
- Parks
Cedar
watershed education center - SPU
Salmon
in the classroom - SPU
"Water
You Doing" the CD - SPU
Landscaping
Chip
and mulch tour - SPU
Composting
tips - SPU
Natural
landscaping - SPU
Natural
lawn care program - SPU
Natural
pest and weed control - SPU
Pesticide
reduction program - OSE
Salmon
friendly gardening - SPU
Natural
Drainage Systems - SPU
Sustainable
Building
DPD's
Sustainable Building Program
Sustainable
Building Policy (doc 24KB)
Sustainable
Building Resources
Sustainable
Building website
Sustainable
Building Advisor Certificate Program
Sustainable
Building Green Team
Urban Habitat
Cedar
River habitat conservation plan - SPU
Clean
Seattle campaign - Mayor's Office
Neighborhood
plan implementation
- DON
Open
space design strategy - City Design
P-Patch
program - DON
Salmon
friendly Seattle - SPU
Trails
program -
Parks
Trees
- Free for Seattle neighborhoods - DON
Urban
creek legacy - SPU
Urban
forestry program - Seattle Transportation
Other useful links
South
Lake Union - Mayor's Office
Open
Space - Parks
Environmentally
Critical Areas - DPD
Comprehensive
Plan - DPD
Central
Waterfront Plan -
DPD
Urban
Forest - SDOT
Puget
Sound Clean Air Agency
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