Marshall GreenStep City Advisory Committee presentation to City Council. PPTX developed by Erin Raveling @ Marshall Area Chamber of Commerce and delivered by Sharon Root @ Lyon County Environmental Office

1. MINNESOTA
GREENSTEP
CITIES
CITY COUNCIL
PRESENTATION
March 27, 2012

2. ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Tim Olson YMCA
Allan Bakke Western Community action
Mark Antony Marshall Municipal Utilities
Carol Biren Southwest Health and Human Services
Sharon Root Lyon County Environmental Office
Shane Waterman City of Marshall
Tom Hoff SW/WC Service Cooperative
Angela Chesley AVERA
Erin Raveling Marshall Area Chamber of Commerce
Will Thomas SMSU
Paul Kimman MN Pollution Control Agency
Southwest Regional Development
John Shepard Commission
Rebekah Reynolds SHIP Contractor for SWHHS

3. OVERVIEW
A voluntary program for cities:
 to challenge themselves to set goals and carry out
activities that benefit the Environment, Economic
Development, Community Health and City Budgets.
 to receive recognition for meeting Best Practices that
have been established as part of Minnesota
GreenStep Cities.

4. BACKGROUND
Minnesota GreenStep Cities grew out of a report to the 2009
Legislature. Governed by a public-private partnership of the
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) and several
non-governmental organizations, the program is led by the
MPCA.

5. BUILDINGS AND LIGHTING
 *Efficient Existing Public Buildings: Work with utilities
and others to assess and finance energy and sustainability
improvements for existing structures.
 *Efficient Existing Private Buildings: Work with utilities and others to assess and
finance energy and sustainability improvements for existing structures.
 New Green Buildings: Construct new buildings to meet or qualify for a green building
standard.
 Efficient Building & Street Lighting and Signals: Improve the efficiency of public
lighting and signals.
 Building Reuse: Create economic and regulatory incentives for redeveloping and
repurposing existing buildings before building new.

6. LAND USE
 *Comprehensive Plan and Implementation: Adopt a
comprehensive plan and tie regulatory ordinances to it.
 Higher Density: Enable and encourage a higher density of housing or commercial land
use.
 Efficient and Healthy Development Patterns: Mix land uses.
 Efficient Highway-Oriented Development: Adopt commercial development and design
standards for highway road corridors.
 Conservation Design: Adopt development ordinances or processes that protect natural
systems.

7. TRANSPORTATION
 Complete Green Streets: Create a network of multimodal green streets.
 Mobility Options: Promote active living and alternatives to
single-occupancy car travel.
 Efficient City Fleets: Implement a city fleet investment, operations and maintenance plan.
 Demand-Side Travel Planning: Use Travel Demand Management and Transit-Oriented
Design.

8. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
 *Purchasing: Adopt an environmentally preferable purchasing
policy.
 Urban Forests: Increase city tree and plant cover.
 *Efficient Stormwater Management: Prevent stormwater
generation.
 Green Infrastructure: Enhance city parks and trails.
 Surface Water Quality: Improve local water bodies.
 Efficient Water and Wastewater Facilities: Assess and improve drinking water and
wastewater facilities.
 Septic Systems: Implement an effective management program for decentralized
wastewater treatment systems.
 Solid Waste Reduction: Increase waste reduction, reuse and recycling.
 Local Air Quality: Prevent generation of local air contaminants.

9. ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT
 *Benchmarks & Community Engagement: Adopt outcome
measures for GreenStep and other city sustainability efforts,
engaging community members in ongoing education and
discussion.
 *Green Business Development: Document the use of
assistance programs for green business and job
development.
 Renewable Energy: Remove barriers to and encourage installation of renewable energy
generation capacity.
 *Local Food: Strengthen local food and fiber production and access.
 Business Synergies: Network/cluster businesses to achieve better energy, economic and
environmental outcomes.

10. OTHER MINNESOTA CITIES
Apple Valley (6/9/11) Farmington (5/2/11) Pine River (5/5/10)
Arlington (3/7/11) Hanover (1/3/12) Pipestone (Considering)
Austin (7/18/11) Hoffman (12/6/10) Red Wing (2/28/11)
Bemidji (2/6/12) Hopkins (11/1/10) Richfield (1/10/12)
Kasson (2/23/11) Rochester (12/6/10)
Blackduck (10/4/10)
Rogers (12/13/11)
Breezy Point (6/7/10) La Prairie (9/7/10) Rosemount (12/20/11)
Cottage Grove (12/1/10) Luverne (12/14/10) Royalton (9/7/10)
Delano (6/21/11) Mahtomedi (10/5/10) Saint Anthony (2/8/11)
Eagan (8/17/10) Mankato (8/9/10) Saint Cloud (6/7/10)
Eden Prairie (6/14/11) Maplewood (12/13/10) Shorewood (6/27/11)
Edina (1/18/11) Milan (6/1/10) Victoria (1/9/12)
Northfield (6/15/10) Warren (9/13/11)
Elk River (10/11/10)
Oakdale (3/8/11) White Bear Lake (12/13/11)
Falcon Heights (1/12/11) Willmar (3/5/12)

11. EXAMPLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS
 Mankato saved 700 million gallons of water by cooling the city’s
energy center with treated waste water.
 Willmar installed LED lighting in the parking lot of Kennedy
Elementary School.
 Red Wing adopted complete streets policy to increase walking
and bicycle traffic to their historic downtown.
 Milan committed to buying only energy star certified equipment.

12. MARSHALL GREEN STEPS
COMPLETED
 Rebates/Co-funding for energy efficiency improvements
 Library meets green building standards
 Odd/Even Sprinkling schedule
 High School built with some green building techniques
 Expansion of Bike Trails & Bike Racks
 Implemented Traffic Calming Measures
 Safe Routes to School (Trails & Tunnel)
 Shop Local campaign (Chamber & Newspaper)

13. WHAT’S NEXT?
 Get an approved resolution by the Marshall City Council
 Enter currently completed best practices onto the
Green Step City website
 (A CERTs GreenCorps member is available to assist GreenStep
Cities with energy benchmarking thru August 2012.)
 Green Step City Advisory Committee working with community
members and city officials to complete additional best practices
 Achieve level Green Step III status by 2014

14. QUESTIONS?