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Green Communities 2008 Action Plan Outline
Community Services
- New green threshold criteria for all new funding applications
- Model stormwater pilot project
Growth Management
- Present new sustainable community principles for review of annexation requests
Housing
- New green threshold criteria for new and rehab multi-family projects and new single-family home construction
- New green minimum building standards for owner-occupied home rehabilitation projects
Downtown Resource Center/Iowa Main Street
- New green threshold criteria for funding applications
- Sustainable design services for Main Street communities
Tourism
- Provide technical assistance to become a green tourist site
- Provide green traveling tips
- Establish pilot sustainable tourism sites & recycling education at welcome centers
Volunteer Iowa
- Revise AmeriCorps grant requirements to reflect green community emphasis
- Establish an Iowa Green Corps to implement community energy efficiency and stormwater projects
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