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New Brighton Climate Action Plan 1 -8 <br />The Process <br />The work that went into the <br />New Brighton Climate Action Plan: <br />17 month <br />planning timeframe <br />153 <br />community members <br />providing input <br />39 <br />planning team <br />members <br />5 <br />foundational research <br />study documents <br />6 <br />community partner <br />groups engaged <br />2 <br />on-line community <br />input survey efforts <br />The CAP was developed in collaboration with a 39-person planning team <br />of community members (CAP Team), business community members, in- <br />stitutional representatives, City commissions, and City of New Brighton <br />staff. The planning team was organized into sub-teams aligned with each <br />of the sectors included in this plan (see Plan Framework). The Energy <br />Sub-team also formed the Partners-In-Energy team which created the <br />Energy Action Plan (see Appendix A). The plan was developed through a <br />number of planning workshops from February 2023 through August <br />2023. The goals and actions identified in the Climate Action Plan are <br />grounded in community input, expert analysis, and best practices from <br />other cities throughout the United States. Strategic goals and detailed <br />actions were developed, refined, prioritized, and finalized by the Plan- <br />ning Team through a series of workshop meetings. The result of this pro- <br />cess is a collaboratively created, co-authored Climate Action Plan which <br />directly integrates the voices of New Brighton residents, businesses, City <br />staff, and representatives of under-resourced communities within the <br />city. <br /> <br />Research Based Climate Action Plan <br />In support of establishing the goals, strategies, and actions included in <br />this plan, paleBLUEdot also produced a Greenhouse Gas Inventory, a Cli- <br />mate Vulnerability Assessment, a city-wide Renewable Energy Potentials <br />Study, a community-wide Ground Cover, Tree Canopy, and Carbon Se- <br />questration Study, and a Climate Action Baseline Assessment. These as- <br />sessments created the foundation of the Climate Action Planning pro- <br />cess (see Appendix B) <br /> <br />Community Engagement <br />The goal of the New Brighton CAP community engagement effort was to <br />cultivate community co-ownership by engaging them early, often, at vari- <br />ous levels, in diverse ways, and facilitating or supporting their participa- <br />tion in decision-making. A signiflcant percent of the engagement effort <br />was focused on engaging traditionally under-resourced communities <br />who are most vulnerable to the risks and impact of climate change.