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Recommendation to Endorse the Annual Report on the Climate Action and Resiliency Plan and the Annual Report on Transportation
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To: Honorable Chair and Members of the Recreation and Park Commission
From: Amy Wooldridge, Recreation and Parks Director
Re: Recommendation to Endorse the Annual Report on the Climate Action and Resiliency Plan and the Annual Report on Transportation
BACKGROUND
The Climate Action and Resiliency Plan (CARP) 2022 Annual Report & 2023 Work Plan (Exhibit 1) presents the CARP’s vision and goals, 2023 work plan objectives, 2022 accomplishments and next steps, partnerships and staffing updates, and funding needs. To guide implementation, staff present Annual Reports to City Council and Boards and Commissions. This report also fulfills the annual reporting requirement for the Climate Adaptation and Hazard Mitigation Plan (2022).
The Transportation 2022 Annual Report & 2023 Work Plan (Exhibit 2) provides performance metrics about transportation in Alameda, a summary of 2022 accomplishments, and a work plan to move transportation forward in 2023. This report fulfills the Transportation Choices Plan (2018) and Vision Zero Action Plan (2021) requirements for an annual review of progress made toward meeting the City’s transportation and traffic safety improvement goals. Next year, this document will also include a report on the Active Transportation Plan, which the City Council adopted in December 2022.
These documents show City progress towards its goals as well as priority actions for the coming year. The CARP, Climate Adaptation and Hazard Mitigation Plan, Vision Zero Action Plan, and the Transportation Choices Plan all require the preparation and presentation of annual reports that the City Council accepts each year. These documents serve as the annual report for all of these plans.
DISCUSSION
The goals of the CARP are reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 50 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 through transportation, building energy, carbon sequestration and waste reduction actions; increasing resiliency to flooding, drought, extreme heat, hazardous air quality and earthquakes; and building social resilience and local government capacity. In addition to the numerical GHG reduction goal, the CARP aims to achieve net zero carbon emissions as soon as possible in accordance with Alameda’s Climate Emergency Declaration, which was passed in March 2019 by the City Council.
Transportation goals set by the General Plan Mobility Element (2021), Active Transportation Plan (2022), Vision Zero Action Plan (2021), and Transportation Choices Plan (2018) include: eliminating traffic fatalities and severe injuries by 2035; providing for the mobility needs of the full diversity of Alameda community members; expanding and improving alternatives to low occupancy automobile trips to incentivize mode shift; and reducing the transportation system’s impacts on the environment.
The City Council is slated to consider accepting the final reports in March 2023. Staff invites the community to review and comment on both Annual Reports, particularly 2023 work program priorities.
FINANCIAL IMPACT
RECOMMENDATION
To endorse the Annual Report on the Climate Action and Resiliency Plan and the Annual Report on Transportation.
Respectfully submitted,
Amy Wooldridge, Recreation and Parks Director
Exhibits:
1. CARP Annual Report 2022
2. Alameda Transportation Draft 2022 Annual Report and 2023 Work Plan