Climate Action Plan
At a glance
On March 15, 2022, the Coronado City Council approved Coronado's Climate Action Plan 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.
>> Climate Action Plan
>> Proposed CAP Implementation Plan 2023-2025
Community Input
The community participated in the process by providing input online and at three public workshops focusing 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 in the summer of 2024. The City 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.
CAP Implementation Progress
>> CAP Implementation Progress Spreadsheet
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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 Ideasover 3 years ago
Living walls and green roofs
Construct living walls and green roofs in public and private spaces to help sequester carbon.
over 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.
over 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.
about 3 years ago
Require Shuttle Services for Large Scale Construction Projects such as the Hotel Del Coronado
Reduce GHG emissions, fuel expenses, traffic congestion and parking impacts by implementing a City requirement that companies provide shuttle services to their workers. Local school bus rental companies offer a cost effective and reliable means of transportation that could be used for the good of Coronado, and the planet.
over 3 years ago
Building Decarbonization
All new construction for residences and commercial buildings should be electric only. No gas. It would also be good to incentivize homeowners to switch out their gas appliances for electric. As the grid becomes cleaner, because of state mandates we can lower our carbon footprint by not burning gas in our homes. It will also help to clean the air within our homes.
Contact Us
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Planning Division
Phone 619-522-7326
Documents
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CAP Implementation Progress Spreadsheet.pdf (107 KB) (pdf)
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Proposed CAP Implementation Plan 12924.pdf (156 KB) (pdf)
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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)
