City of Monrovia

Monrovia's 21 Accords

ENERGY

Action 1: Adopt and implement a policy to increase the use of renewable energy to meet ten percent of the city's peak electric load by 2015.

Action 2: Adopt and implement a policy to reduce the city's peak electric load by ten percent within seven years through energy efficiency, shifting the timing of energy demands, and conservation measures.

Action 3: Adopt a citywide greenhouse gas reduction plan that reduces the jurisdiction's emissions by twenty-five percent by 2030, and which includes a system for accounting and auditing greenhouse gas emissions.

WASTE REDUCTION

Action 4: Establish a policy to achieve seventy-five percent diversion to waste disposal methods by 2015.

Action 5: Adopt a Municipal Code Ordinance that reduces the use of a disposable, toxic, or non-renewable product category by at least fifty percent by 2015.

Action 6: Implement "user-friendly" recycling and composting programs, with the goal of reducing by twenty percent per capita solid waste disposal by 2015.

URBAN DESIGN

Action 7: Adopt a policy that mandates a green building rating system standard that applies to all new municipal buildings.

Action 8: Adopt urban planning principles and practices that advance higher density, mixed use, walkable, bikeable and disabled-accessible neighborhoods, which coordinate land use and transportation with open space systems for recreation and ecological restoration.

Action 9: Adopt a policy or implement a program that creates environmentally beneficial jobs throughout the community.

URBAN NATURE

Action 10: Ensure that there is accessible public parks, trails or recreational open space within half-a-mile of every city resident by 2015.

Action 11: Conduct an inventory of existing canopy coverage in the city; and, then establish a goal based on ecological and community considerations to plant and maintain canopy coverage in not less than fifty percent of all available sidewalk planting sites.

Action 12: Adopt a Municipal Code Ordinance, in compliance with local, state and federal laws and regulations, which protects critical habitat corridors and other key habitat characteristics (e.g. water features, and shelter for wildlife and use of native species, etc.) from unsustainable development.

TRANSPORTATION

Action 13: Develop and implement a policy which expands affordable public transportation coverage within a quarter-mile of all city residents in ten years.

Action 14: Implement programs that phase down sulfur emission in diesel and gasoline fuels by fifty percent concurrent with using advanced emission controls on all buses, taxis, and public fleets to reduce particulate matter and smog-forming emissions from those fleets by fifty percent by 2015.

Action 15: Implement a policy to reduce the percentage of commute trips by single occupancy vehicles by ten percent by 2015.

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

Action 16: Annually, identify one product, chemical, or compound that is used within the city (with a focus on specific areas used by children and youth) that represents a risk to human health and reduce or eliminate its use by the municipal government.

Action 17: Promote wellness and fitness when planning or redesigning city facilities.

WATER

Action 18: Adopt and implement policies to reduce per capita water demand by ten percent by 2015 and thirty-five percent by 2030.

Action 19: Protect the ecological integrity of the city's primary drinking water sources (i.e., water ways and associated ecosystems).

Action 20: Adopt municipal wastewater management guidelines and reduce the volume of untreated wastewater discharges by ten percent in by 2015.

Action 21: Increase groundwater recharge by five percent by 2020.