The document is a score sheet for evaluating how "green" a community is. It contains 30 criteria for sustainable development practices on a scale of 1 to 6, with 6 being the most environmentally friendly. Communities are encouraged to fill out the score sheet and submit their results online to track their progress on issues like transportation, land use, water and energy conservation, and community engagement.

1. How “green” is your community?
Score sheet
On a scale of 1 to 6 - with 6 being best, our community............
1. Encourages developm ent within or near the Worst............Best
existing “built-up” area or close to public
transportation? Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó
2. Encourages developm ent that is served by
existing rather than new water and waster water
facilities? Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó
3. Encourages developm ent in areas having no or
lim ited endangered or other ecological im pacts?
Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó
4. Encourages developm ent that conserves water
quality, natural hydrology, habitat - water bodies
and wetlands? Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó
5. Encourages developm ent that seeks to preserve
irreplaceable prim e agriculture and unique
farm hand? Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó
6. Encourages developm ent that seeks to preserve
open space - forested and other habitat
conservation lands? Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó
7. Encourages redevelopm ent opportunities even if
the site is com plicated by environm ental
contam ination? Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó
8. Encourages developm ent that seeks to reduce
automobile vehicle use in favor of alternative
transportation - walking, biking and m ass transit? Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó
9. Encourages housing developm ent in close
proxim ity to em ploym ent opportunities to reduce the
num ber and length of vehicle journey-to-work trips? Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó
10. Encouragers location of schools to facilitate
physical activity - walking to and from school? Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó

2. 11. Discourages developm ent of steep slope
topography to m inim ize storm water erosion by Worst............Best
preserving steep slope vegetation?
Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó
12. Encourages use of conservation design
principles in new developm ent that seeks to
preserve open space to protect native habitat,
wetlands and water features? Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó
13. Encourages inter connection of existing and new
developm ent to prom ote sidewalk, pathway and
street connectedness? Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó
14. Encourages higher density developm ent to
prom ote m ass transportation efficiency and greater
walkability/ Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó
15. Encourages developm ent that intersperses
owner and renter occupied housing available to a
wide range of household incomes? Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó
16. Encourages developm ent that orientates parking
away for street frontages to increase pedestrian use
of street frontages? Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó
17. Encourages use of m ass transit? Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó
18. Has a plan for direct and safe pedestrian
partway connections to local destinations,
neighborhood centers and other regional Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó
com m unities?
19. Has to provide a variety of open spaces and
recreational facilities close to resident work and Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó
hom e locations?
20. Encourages comm unity participation in project
planning by individuals m ost likely to be directly
im pacted by the project? Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó
21. Encourages comm unity -based local food
production prom oting direct access to fresh foods
while reducing long-distance food transport? Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó
22. Has requirem ents that lim it construction
activity pollution such as soil erosion, waterway
sedim entation and airborne dust generation? Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó

3. Worst..........B
..est
23. Encourages energy efficiency and use of “green”
building products for new construction? Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó
24. Encourages low-im pact landscaping techniques
and “rain gardens” to reduce landscaping irrigations
supporting water conservation and ground water Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó
recharge?
Encourages adaptive reuse of historic and other
buildings including reuse of scavenged building Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó
m aterials when possible?
26. Encou4rahes building designs that reduce “heat
islands” that can effect the m icro clim ate
surrounding the building? Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó
27. Discourages light pollution by lim iting light-
trespass and am ount of light produced by
luminaries? Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó
28. Maintains a com prehensive plan describing the
goals for future developm ent of our com m unity? Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó
29. Provides a m echanism to educate the residents
of the com m unity of the goals to “green” the
com m unity? Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó
30. Encourages com m unity participation in events Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó
promoting the “greening’ of the com m unity?
Please transfer you results to the attached
sheet for our collection.
Results will be posted on
http://greencitydevelopment.blogspot.com/

4. How “green” is your community?
Score sheet
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