ReVisioning Sustainability

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Santa Fe City Plan Map (1912)

City of Santa Fe

Santa Fe City Plan (1947)

City of Santa Fe

Santa Fe 2020-2045 Metropolitan Transporation Plan (2020)

Santa Fe Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO)

Considered a “basic human need,” transportation impacts our quality of life, economic prosperity, and environmental well being. Guided by a public engagement process, the plan envisions a well-connected, efficient, integrated, multimodal transportation system which increases access, efficiency, and freedom of personal mobility to everything from higher paying jobs to better schools, affordable housing, and health care. The plan considers various modes of transport, walk and bikeability, fitness, air quality, access to healthy food, traffic volume and congestion, safety, cost, demographics, employment, freight, waste, maintenance, fuel efficiency, technology, funding sources for road improvements, schedule frequency and efficiency, education, culture, sustainability, and connectivity between modes and systems. The transportation sector is acknowledged as the second largest greenhouse gas emitting sector, second to the energy sector.

Santa Fe Metropolitan Bicycle Plan (2019)

Santa Fe Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO)

Santa Fe has distinguished itself as a community in support of bicycling: its ideal setting, combined with a passionate and growing number of bicycle advocates, sets the stage for the continued growth and interest in bicycling. The 2019 Santa Fe Metropolitan Bicycle Master Plan (BMP) presents an update to the 2012 Bicycle Master Plan to incorporate current best practicies in municipal planning for bicycles. The 2019 BMP reflects the latest innovation in approaches and sets a goal of creating an 'all ages and abilities' bicycle network. It updates the extensive, prioritized list of projects to guide improvements to the bicycle network and recognizes the growing wave of bicycle-related events and awareness. Since the previous BMP, however, there has been a greater acknowledgement that the majority of the population does not feel comfortable riding in bike lanes at the edge of a busy street, but would feel safe in a protected bicycle lane. The 2019 BMP reflects a shift in emphasis towardsa a vision for a bicycle network that serves all ages and abilities, and that addresses issues of equity and access.

Santa Fe MPO Pre-Teen & Teen Independent Transit & Mobility Plan (2017)

Santa Fe Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO)

Santa Fe MPO hired a professional planning team from Sites Southwest to build on the existing Public Transit Master Plan. This effort focused solely on youth between the ages of 10 and 17, how they travel around and through the metro area, and what their perceptions, beliefs and interests are around multiple modes of travel including transit, biking and walking. Emerging national trends show that, specific to youth, the number of transit, bicycle and walking trips have been increasing steadily at the same time that there has been a reduction in the number of vehicle miles traveled (VMT). According to the 2010-2014 American Community Survey there are 13,554 youth ages 10-17 in the metro area. We believe that the travel patterns of youth in this age range are important to study as youth begin to become more independent and transition away from relying on parents for their transportation needs. The goal of this plan is to determine when this transition occurs, which transportation modes youth begin to use, and to what extent they can use these modes independently. Data, information, trends and direct input by local youth will be used to consider investments in our transit and transportation network that supports their and future generations mobility independence.

Water Bank Ordinance (2010)

City of Santa Fe

The purpose of the City Water Bank Ordinance is to establish a city water bank consisting of various accounts holding water rights, water credits and water conservation credits.

Water Rights Transfer Ordinance (2009)

City of Santa Fe

The purpose of the City's Water Rights Transfer Program is to administer water right transfers designated for development projects and water rights transfers designated for the City Water Bank.

Santa Fe Basin Study (2015)

Bureau of Reclamation, City of Santa Fe & Santa Fe County

Climate change, in concert with human development and other changes, promises to alter many aspects of life in the Santa Fe basin, including the availability of water to the City of Santa Fe and Santa Fe County, and the resources that depend on the Santa Fe watershed. The health of forests, fish and wildlife, and other ecosystems, as well as human development, food security, and quality of life are likely to be affected. The Santa Fe Basin Study was undertaken to evaluate these projected changes and to develop potential strategies for adaptation that can be used for future planning.

Local Choice Energy Act SB0374 (2019)

New Mexico Legislature

The Local Choice Energy Act, currently in front of the New Mexico Legislature, opens up the state's electricity markets to competition and puts local communities in control of who supplies their energy. It proposes to allow any local community in New Mexico to pool their electricity demand and create a local non-profit utility, which would then secure electricity supplies based on criteria defined by the local community. This new utility would work with investor-owned utlities in the service area to transmit and distribute electricity.

Local Choice Energy Act One-Pager (2020)

New Energy Economy

The purpose of the Local Choice Energy Act One-Pager is to provide a quick synopsis of the current challenges surrounding investor-owned utility monopolies within New Mexico and the solutions proposed by The Local Choice Energy Act that would bring more equity to the electrical utility market.

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (2015)

United Nations

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries - developed and developing - in a global partnership. They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.

The Future of Our Pasts: Engaging Cultural Heritage in Climate Action (2019)

Climate Change and Cultural Heritage Working Group, International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)

Climate Change was not on the agenda in 1966 when ICOMOS was founded with the mission to work for the conservation and protection of cultural heritage places. Yet today, climate change has become one of the most significant and fastest growing threats to people and their cultural heritage worldwide. Cultural heritage offers immense and virtually untapped potential to drive climate action and support ethical and equitable transitions by communities towards low carbon, climate resilient development pathways. Realizing that potential, however, requires both better recognition of the cultural dimensions of climate change and adjusting the aims and methodologies of heritage practice.

The New Net Zero (2020)

Boston Society for Architecture

This recent article from Boston Society for Architecture discusses achieving greenhouse gas mitigation targets through life cycle carbon accounting.