Climate Action Plan
Climate Action Plan Approved
The City Council approved Coronado’s Climate Action Plan on Tuesday, March 15, and directed staff to move forward with preparing a draft implementation plan. The Climate Action Plan outlines ways the City can reduce its greenhouse gas emissions within the City to support the state’s strategy. The plan documents current and ongoing sustainability efforts, and provides a roadmap to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the future. Coronado has a long history of implementing sustainability practices, including constructing green buildings, conserving water, developing a bike and pedestrian friendly community, and other environmentally friendly practices. Reduction measures may include promoting rooftop solar installations and increased use of electric vehicles and charging stations. The community participated along the way by providing comments online or at three public workshops on how the community could reduce its carbon footprint. The implementation plan with recommendations, related costs and benefits is planned for presentation to the City Council by this summer. The Council also asked staff to back information on Community Choice Aggregations, or CCA’s, which are entities that allow member cities to purchase cleaner sources of energy for residents and businesses inside the city limits. For more information, contact Howard Lee (619) 522-2423 or at hlee@coronado.ca.us.
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Post your ideas of how the City can practically reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Draw from other cities' success stories that would make sense to implement here in Coronado. Provide comments on what others have posted and "like" the ones that you feel would be appropriate for the City.
View All Ideasalmost 3 years ago
Build Community Solar Farm Projects
Small Solar Farms can be co-owned by businesses/residents who cannot install their own solar on leased buildings or rentals. These can be built in the form of mid sized solar parking lot installations. This could be an excellent CCA local program after Coronado joins the JPA.
almost 3 years ago
Join Community Choice Energy JPA
Allow residents and businesses to support a non-profit municipal CCA and shift all their electric use to 100% renewable energy, as well as participate in community energy saving programs, and invest in local solar and storage.
almost 3 years ago
Install additional electric vehicle charging stations
The City could consider developing and implementing a feasibility plan to anticipate growth in the use of electric vehicles in the City.
almost 3 years ago
Incentivize Heat Pump Water Heater retrofitting
This eliminates 50% of a residence's gas use, and is 3.5x more efficient than traditional electric water heaters.
almost 3 years ago
Streets for people :)
What if more Coronado residents used bikes to shop and commute? How much less carbon would we generate, and how much healthier and happier would we be, if we got more of us out of our cars? Forward-looking cities all over the world are boldly returning priority on their streets from cars to people. Being compact and flat, Coronado is a perfect place to promote biking and walking. But we have conceded priority to cars in almost every square inch of our city's streets. A cornerstone of climate change policy, safe streets and well-being initiatives around the world has been encouraging people to think of bikes not just for recreation, but as functional replacements for cars for many local trips. How can we make biking and walking more appealing than driving? By creating protected bike lanes; increasing the available bike parking on public and commercial properties; increasing the cost or decreasing the availability of car parking on city streets; making it easier for walkers and bikers, and reducing the options for drivers, to cross Orange; by testing cargo bike purchase subsidies or rebates; by testing monthly car-free days on Orange. Let's think more about Orange as a dramatic example of the possibilities. Cyclists rarely ride on the street because it isn't safe. What if we replaced parking on Orange with protected bike lanes and wider sidewalks? How much more efficient and enjoyable would it be to ride or walk across town to eat or shop? Let's study the bold moves that cycle-friendly cities like Amsterdam, Bogota and Vancouver are taking to return streets to people and try some of them here.
Summary of Actions
Climate Action Plan Approved
The City Council approved Coronado’s Final Climate Action Plan on Tuesday, March 15, 2022, and directed staff to move forward with preparing a draft implementation plan for review and approval. The Final Climate Action Plan outlines current and ongoing sustainability efforts and provides a roadmap to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the future.
Coronado has a long history of implementing sustainability practices, including constructing green buildings, conserving water, developing a bike and pedestrian friendly community, along with other environmentally friendly practices. Reduction measures may include promoting rooftop solar installations, increased use of electric vehicles and charging stations, expanded or improved public transit and implementation of the City's Active Transportation Plan improvements.
The community participated by providing comments online and at three public workshops
Documents
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Climate Action Plan, approved March 15, 2022 (6.59 MB) (pdf)
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Final Draft Climate Action Plan (6.55 MB) (pdf)
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Coronado CAP Workshop (Nov 4, 2021) presentation.pdf (5.29 MB) (pdf)
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Coronado CAP Workshop #3 Flyer (184 KB) (pdf)
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Public Review Draft CAP (August 2021) (4.98 MB) (pdf)
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March 16, 2021, City Council Report - CAP Targets and Reduction Measures (1.44 MB) (pdf)
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Climate Action Plan- Comment Coronado Virtual Outreach Report (259 KB) (pdf)
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Climate Action Plan Workshop Polling Questions and Results (1.65 MB) (pdf)
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Coronado CAP Workshop (11/05/2020) presentation (5.14 MB) (pdf)
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Coronado CAP Workshop (11/05/2020) Flyer (191 KB) (pdf)
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Aug 18, 2020, City Council Report - Draft GHG Inventory and Forecast (671 KB) (pdf)
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GHG Inventory and Forecast (649 KB) (pdf)
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Public Workshop #1 - Flyer (1.69 MB) (pdf)
