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New Brighton Climate Action Plan 7 -4 <br />CAP ACTIONS Strategy Action Greenspace and Trees <br />GT 2: Increase pollinator supportiveness of lawns and grasslands in City and <br />achieve a 5% turf replacement with native grasses and wildfiowers Communi- <br />ty-wide by 2030. <br />GT 2- 1 Use education programs and incentives to promote the use of native plants and trees on public and <br />private property. Include promotion of the state's lawns to legumes program. <br />GT 2- 2 Remove and ease lawn/grass requirements in ordinances. <br />GT 2- 3 Prioritize the use of native plants in landscaping at City-owned properties. Continue natural vegeta- <br />tion conversion for passive park areas. <br />GT 2- 4 Offer community-wide incentives and education to promote lawn conversion to pollinator friendly <br />yards. <br />GT 2- 5 Manage city-owned lawn/turf areas to enhance and maintain diverse natural communities. Replace <br />turf with native wildfiower and prairie grasses to increase plant diversity and pollinator-friendly habi- <br />tat. Adopt Carbon Gardening practices: eliminate synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, use high mow <br />deck settings, and apply biochar amendments and polyculture lawn mixtures. <br />GT 2- 6 Complete a Land Conversion Opportunity Study supporting the ground cover goals included in this <br />CAP. Analyze public and private property for unused turf and impervious areas, and create a Ground <br />Cover Conversion Implementation plan to convert to native plant and pollinator restoration areas, <br />permaculture areas, wetlands, shrub, tree coverage or urban agriculture uses with goals by census <br />tract. Include goals and an implementation plan to meet or exceed the CAP goals for tree, native pol- <br />linator area, and lawn conversion for City owned properties. Goals should be weighted by heat island, <br />water runoff, and equity needs. Identify incentive opportunities and establish an outreach campaign.