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BOROUGH OF POINT PLEASANT BEACH, NEW JERSEY

Adopted by the Planning Board: ______

______Deborah Alaimo Lawlor, FAICP, PP Nicholas A. Dickerson, PP, AICP License No. 33LI00428400 License No. #33LI00628700

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION 1

GREEN TEAM & SUSTAINABLE JERSEY INITIATIVES 1

LOW IMPACT DEVELOPMENT AND GREEN 2

GREEN BUILDING AND INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNIQUES 5

ENERGY 6

RESILIENCE PLANNING 9

IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES 11

sustain and optimize Point Pleasant Beach’s Introduction quality of life. These goals are as follows: GOAL 1: Continue Improving the is a term used to describe practices Borough’s Sustainability Efforts and tools that link the environment to the economy and human society. The etymology of GOAL 2: Implement Green Building this term came from a 1987 report by the United Techniques into Future Nations World Commission on Environment and Development Development (“The Brundtland Commission”), where it describes sustainability as GOAL 3: Pursue Clean Energy “development that meets the needs of the present Alternatives and Reduce without compromising the ability of future Energy Consumption generations to meet their own needs.” GOAL 4: Improve Borough’s Resiliency The Environmental Protection Against Storm Events Agency (USEPA) states that “Everything that we need for our survival and -being depends, either directly or indirectly, on our natural Green Team & environment. Sustainability creates and maintains the conditions under which humans Sustainable Jersey and nature can exist in productive harmony, that Initiatives permit fulfilling the social, economic, and other requirements of present and future generations. On the local level, Sustainability is “green teams” have important to making served to help sure that we have and municipalities will continue to have incorporate the water, materials, sustainable practices. and resources to These teams generally protect human health consist of municipal and our staff, elected officials, 1 environment.” and community volunteers. Many of This Element these green teams evaluates the existing coordinate their efforts in Point actions with Pleasant Beach to Sustainable Jersey, a address sustainability nonprofit through these organization that different facets. provides tools, Smart growth is training, and financial development that incentives to support serves the economy, environment, and communities as they pursue sustainable community equally by concentrating programs and actions. These actions include development into already existing communities. physical improvements, plans, studies, and With an understanding of the existing efforts public outreach. For example, actions underway and issues facing Point Pleasant considering the municipal use of clean energy Beach, the purpose of this Element is to define include the audit and evaluation of existing goals and implementation strategies that will energy usage as a way to identify and implement

projects that will improve efficiency. Public the long-term goal of a sustainable New Jersey outreach can include actions such as hosting a and world. “green fair” to introduce sustainability to the broader community. To reach the level of Bronze Certification, Point Pleasant Beach participated in a number of Municipalities and schools that choose to different initiatives that showed its commitment participate in the Sustainable Jersey program get to a more sustainable future. The Borough, for priority access to grant funding and training. A example, established a farmer’s market—which green team is the only mandatory requirement operates free of charge to vendors on municipal for participation in Sustainable Jersey. Similar to lands—that operates as a part of the Borough’s other sustainability-related initiatives, Sunday market. Point Pleasant Beach is also Sustainable Jersey has established a certification active in fostering a safe environment for its program that municipalities and schools can children, adopting both a Safe Routes to School utilize to quantify their efforts. Based on the policy as well as an ordinance banning smoking number of creditable sustainable actions taken, in key public places such as parks and municipalities can be recognized by Sustainable playgrounds. A large portion of the points Jersey as “Bronze Certified” or “Silver Certified.” earned toward the Sustainable Jersey certification Municipalities with Silver Certification are also came from the Borough’s commitment to waste eligible for a “Gold Star” recognition for actions management; a borough-wide ban on single-use in a specific area of sustainability, which are plastic bags was adopted, the Green Team currently limited to the areas of Energy and worked to educate residents on backyard Waste. The various actions used to accrue points composting, and the Borough maintains a service for certification have expiration dates at its Depot for household hazardous independent of a town’s overall certification, and waste such as used motor oil, antifreeze, and several actions may not be completed twice, as batteries. Other measures will be noted they are used as prerequisites for subsequent throughout this Element. actions.

Out of Ocean County’s 33 municipalities, two (2) Low Impact municipalities received Sustainable Jersey certification at the silver level, and six (6) Development and municipalities, including Point Pleasant Beach, Green Building received Sustainable Jersey certification at the bronze level. Sustainable building and development practices help to mitigate and even improve the Point Pleasant Beach achieved Sustainable Jersey surrounding landscape and quality of life. In certification at the bronze level in 2009, followed contrast, for example, roads and surface parking by a recertification in 2018 and 2019, areas create more heat in summer months demonstrating that the Borough has made a (known as the “urban heat island effect”), which commitment to sustainability and succeeded in can exacerbate localized air that then implementing the first significant steps. The affects sensitive individuals, such as older adults bronze certification requires an accrual of a total and those with asthma. Older may of at least 150 points as recognized by Sustainable contain drafty windows and doors, resulting in Jersey, and, while the borough completed its increased energy use and costs for heating and most recent certification at a total 215, it may wish cooling. to reach further certifications such as a silver certification, which requires at least 350 points. To remain certified at the bronze level, Point Pleasant Beach must recertify in 2022. Certified towns are an outstanding group of municipalities that are making important contributions toward

LOW IMPACT DEVELOPMENT AND source, thereby reducing stormwater pollution from routine weather events, while also freeing up capacity for the gray system during more Development of roads and buildings creates extreme weather events. impervious surfaces which inhibit natural of water, leaving runoff to collect and Under existing guidelines from the New Jersey transport materials, chemicals, or even heat from Department of Environmental Protection these surfaces into the ground or waterways, (NJDEP), major developments are required to polluting them and causing greater problems. incorporate green infrastructure “to the Traditionally, runoff from these surfaces is maximum extent practicable” (N.J.A.C. 7:8); managed through drains, pipes, outfalls, and however, NJDEP recently acknowledged that basins to collect and quickly remove stormwater, this involved a certain measure of subjectivity. In a system often referred to as “gray” response, the Department recently adopted infrastructure. changes to the state’s stormwater management rules (N.J.A.C. 7:8) that will require developers to Green infrastructure, or Low Impact utilize green infrastructure to meet the minimum Development (LID) refers to design techniques stormwater management standards for water used to manage stormwater in a way that mimics quality, groundwater recharge, and stormwater or employs natural processes to capture volume control as part of any major stormwater where it falls, enabling it to absorb developments, which are scheduled for into the ground or planted areas, evaporate, or be construction starting in 2021. stored for reuse, instead of immediately directing it toward a storm sewer. Green infrastructure can include vegetated green roofs, downspout COMPLETE AND GREEN STREETS planter boxes, planted strips along roadways and A safe and efficient transportation system is one sidewalks, and rain gardens, but can also include that meets the mobility and accessibility needs of rain barrels and porous pavements. its users in a safe, timely, and cost-effective manner. The concept of “complete streets” are Green infrastructure is often employed in systems that ensure that roadways can conjunction with gray infrastructure by accommodate users of all ages and abilities by managing the first inch or two of rain at the providing multiple modes of travel, including

walking, bicycling, mass transit, and the community design. It can also include green automobile. This is addressed by municipalities infrastructure. who adopt a complete streets program as part of a roadway improvement or development project, Several organizations, most notably the U.S. where the needs of all users and abilities is Green Building Council (USGBC), 3 have created considered. rating systems used to quantify the extent to which “green” building practices were utilized. The “green streets” concept offers an additional The USGBC’s program, known as Leadership in way to improve and manage stormwater as part Energy and (LEED), is of future capital improvements to roads and used to certify design, construction, operations, drainage systems. Green streets incorporate and maintenance for new buildings, renovations, green infrastructure into roadway design, operations, and even neighborhoods and reducing negative effects such as stormwater municipalities. Similar to the CRS program, runoff and emissions.2 various activities are assigned a point value, and the total number of points awarded to a project GREEN BUILDING determine its certification level, which start at “Certified,” and then progress to the higher Green building design refers to construction levels of “Silver,” “Gold,” and “Platinum.” techniques utilized to minimize negative external impacts to the natural environment and human Point Pleasant Beach Borough adopted, in 2015, a health, and can include conservation of water, Master Plan Reexamination Report and Master wastewater, and energy. Some green building Plan Amendments, where, in the Land Use practices even attempt to enhance the Element, it was recommended that the Borough surrounding environment using resource- update its development regulations to build efficient building and design processes. Green resiliency throughout the municipality. Green building can range from efficient fixtures and building infrastructure techniques, originally appliances, to energy collection (including wind, prepared as part of the 2015 Master Plan solar, and geothermal), sourcing of construction Reexamination, has been reproduced in the materials, maintenance and operations, and following section.

Green Building and used by plants, infiltrated into the ground, and evaporated. They may be installed in a variety of Infrastructure locations and can be an attractive element of site design. In addition, it is important to note that Techniques rain gardens can be installed in a variety of locations. Green building and infrastructure techniques are an important tool for promoting resiliency in Indeed, they may be installed in any properly Point Pleasant Beach Borough. They use graded unpaved space, and in parking lots and permeable surfaces (e.g., porous , gravel, paved areas through the construction of mulch, etc.), landscape formations (e.g., channels, specialized planter boxes that collect and absorb depressions), plant material, or other runoff. technologies to reduce stormwater runoff by promoting natural infiltration. Their use can BIOSWALES promote resiliency by mitigating flooding (i.e., Bioswales are open, linear channels with reducing the risk and impacts of flooding) and vegetation, mulching, or xeriscaping that slow helping the borough to quickly recover from stormwater runoff and attenuate flooding storms. potential while conveying stormwater runoff In addition, they provide numerous co-benefits, away from critical infrastructure. While they not the least of which are: reducing long-term convey stormwater runoff away from critical maintenance and operation costs of stormwater infrastructure, their permeable surface permits infrastructure; and, capturing runoff pollution the natural infiltration of stormwater. They are (e.g., particulate matter, heavy metals) and often used as an alternative to, or enhancement preventing their entry into sensitive terrestrial of, traditional stormwater drainage systems. and coastal waterways. PERMEABLE PAVEMENTS The Land Use Plan Element recommends the Permeable pavements help to reduce stormwater incorporation of green building and runoff, which helps to improve the quality of infrastructure techniques in the borough’s terrestrial waters and mitigate flooding. With development regulations. Recommended green traditional (i.e., impervious) pavement, building and infrastructure techniques are stormwater runs into drains and inlets, which described in the following subsections. places a burden on such infrastructure, and may result in the discharge of pollutants (e.g., DOWNSPOUT DISCONNECTION sediment, oil residue, etc.) into terrestrial waters. Downspout disconnection refers to the rerouting Permeable pavements, however, infiltrate, treat, of rooftop drainage pipes to specialized or store rainwater where it falls. Key examples of containment devices (e.g., rain barrels, cisterns) permeable pavements include pervious concrete, and permeable areas, instead of traditional porous asphalt, and permeable interlocking stormwater drainage systems. This allows pavers. stormwater runoff from building roofs not only to infiltrate soil, but also to be collected for later GREEN ROOFS use (e.g., watering lawns and gardens), which Green roofs are roofs that are covered with reduces demand on public water supplies. substrate and vegetation that enable the infiltration of rainwater. This not only minimizes RAIN GARDENS stormwater runoff, but leads to reduced building Rain gardens are shallow, vegetated basins that operating costs and energy consumption by absorb stormwater runoff from impervious providing improved insulation of the roof surfaces (e.g., rooftops, sidewalks, and streets). surface, and absorbing less heat on the roof Runoff is channeled into rain gardens, and is then surface (i.e., increasing the roof surface albedo

over traditional roof surfaces). Flat and low- environments, improvement of water quality via pitched roofs are most suited to filtration of upland runoff; and creation of habitat development and retrofitting therewith. for aquatic and terrestrial species.4

TREE COVER Increased tree cover in developed areas is an important example of green infrastructure. Trees Energy reduce and slow stormwater by intercepting precipitation in their leaves and branches. In Local governments spend about 10 percent of addition, their root systems help to aerate soil, their budgets on energy.5 While up-front costs which facilitates natural infiltration of associated with alternative energy systems, stormwater and reduces runoff. Trees also purify sources, and energy-efficient design and the air and can help to cool developed areas by equipment are often higher than conventional providing shade, and through evaporative development, the long-term costs are often cooling and increased latent heat flux (i.e., the mitigated through reduced energy demand. The dissipation of sensible heat). Tree cover can be systems in New Jersey commonly associated expanded within public parks and open spaces, with alternative energy are wind and solar along roadways, and on private lots. power. In addition, heat pumps (a type of ) are also recognized by the LIVING SHORELINES New Jersey Clean Energy Program as a way to Living shorelines are an approach to shoreline minimize outside energy use, which uses the stabilization that uses wetland plants, moderated temperature of the earth to manage submerged aquatic plants, oyster reefs, coir fiber the indoor temperature of a building, therefore logs, sand fill, and stone to provide shoreline requiring less energy to heat and cool. Renewable protection and maintain important habitat areas. energy generation that supplements or replaces They offer numerous benefits over hardened the energy needed to power municipal facilities structures (e.g., bulkheads and concrete walls), can reduce the amount of energy that needs to be including protection of the riparian and intertidal purchased from the grid.

The Borough, since 2010, took steps to increase investments can help reduce long-term operating energy efficiency such as conducting an energy costs, such as efficiency measures for audit for key municipal buildings. This led to construction of new municipal facilities, retrofits Point Pleasant Beach upgrading HVAC of existing facilities, and improvements made equipment, LED lighting, windows, roofing, and during regular maintenance activities (such as water heater units. In 2018, a list of facility energy replacing lights, appliances, and windows when upgrades and potential projects for municipal needed). Such investments can be informed buildings was compiled, and then, with the help through an “energy audit,” which studies energy of the New Jersey Clean Energy Program, the use and demands from buildings and vehicles, Borough determined what projects would be identifying specific action strategies intended to covered under the Direct Install Program. The provide the greatest return on investment. The Chamber of Commerce was also proactive in New Jersey Clean Energy Program provides 100 outreach to local business members on how to percent reimbursement for energy audits of reduce energy usage and operating costs. Similar public facilities. efforts were made towards the residents of the Borough, where informational panels were set up 2019 NEW JERSEY ENERGY MASTER at the boardwalk to inform residents, as well as a PLAN letter regarding energy reduction sent to all Governor Murphy unveiled the finalized 2019 residents from the mayor. New Jersey Energy Master Plan (EMP) Pathway Energy is required to maintain Point Pleasant To 2050 in January 2020, envisioning initiatives to Beach’s quality of life and economy. It is achieve 50 percent clean energy by 2030 and 100 necessary for powering vehicles and appliances, percent clean energy by 2050. The plan concedes heating and cooling buildings, and the ever- that the State’s current trajectory will not allow it increasing number of “smart” devices which to meet these goals, so the Master Plan identifies often rely upon a power source and wireless major contributors to the state’s carbon internet. footprint—such as transportation and electric generation—and evaluates carbon neutral Unfortunately, the use of these non-renewable solutions. In reducing the dependence on fossil fossil fuels such as natural gas, gasoline, diesel, fuels, the EMP outlines seven key strategies and coal contribute to , guiding New Jersey’s path to energy efficiency, which are a global problem with local each with underlying goals and objectives consequences. The ongoing accumulation of intended to aid the transition to a clean energy these emissions into the atmosphere will future. continue to modify the landscape through rising sea levels and exacerbates both routine and While the strategies, goals, and objectives of the extreme weather events. Energy-efficient Energy Master Plan are geared primarily toward practices and tools that reduce energy usage can state agencies and policy, many have the help curb the amount of greenhouse gases that potential for replication on the local level, are generated. These practices can include including, conversion of fleet vehicles to electric, techniques used to maximize energy efficiency, installation of charging such as the use of LED lighting and “smart” infrastructure, increasing transportation options, technology that adjusts lighting and reducing congestion, encouraging transit heating/cooling in rooms when they are being oriented development, installation of alternative utilized, but also alternative energy systems such energy systems, improving energy efficiency in as solar and geothermal. new and existing construction, develop shared bike and scooter programs, and incentivize Incentive programs from the state and federal energy efficient purchasing. As such, Goal 6.1 governments have helped reduce the sticker and its underlying objectives seek to encourage shock associated with the up-front costs of municipalities to establish and enact community equipment and installation. Strategic capital energy plans that will allow them to identify their

own priorities and obstacles that will allow them municipalities to consider Electric Vehicle to complement the Energy Master Plan. The EMP Charging Infrastructure as part of the master suggests that a Community Energy Plan could plan, periodic reexamination of the master plan, include community redevelopment mechanisms and redevelopment plans. The following to increase public space, walkability, and bike- summarizes these new requirements. ability; decrease congestion and idling; and enable equitable, multi-modal transportation Land Use, Circulation, and Green Buildings and opportunities to improve public health and Environmental Sustainability Plan Elements are quality of life. The EMP suggests that solid waste required to identify potential electric vehicle reduction plans, such as through a municipal charging stations. A green buildings and composting program, could provide numerous environmental sustainability plan should benefits, including the reduction in energy encourage and promote the development of resulting from a reduction in waste that is sent to public electric vehicle charging infrastructure in the . locations appropriate for their development, including commercial districts, areas proximate ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING to public transportation and transit facilities and transportation corridors, and public rest stops. STATIONS In 2019, the New Jersey State Legislature adopted As part of a Master Plan Reexamination, the Senate Bill 606 (P.L 2019, Chapter 267), which reexamination shall include a section that made amendments to the Municipal Land Use recommends locations appropriate for the Law (N.J.S.A. 40:55d-1 et. seq.) and the Local development of public electric vehicle Redevelopment and Housing Law (N.J.S.A. infrastructure, including commercial districts, 40A:12a-1 et. seq.), intended to encourage areas proximate to public transportation and

transit facilities and transportation corridors, and charging infrastructure at locations such as public rest stops; and recommended changes, in municipal properties and parking lots, as well as the local development regulations necessary or at the borough train station. appropriate for the development of public electric vehicle infrastructure. Resilience Planning For a redevelopment plan, the plan shall indicate the project area’s relationship to the development The concept of resilience planning has emerged of public electric vehicle charging infrastructure as an important aspect of managing extreme in appropriate locations. The plan shall also weather, particularly in the aftermath of include proposed locations for public electric Hurricane Sandy in 2012. In this context, vehicle charging infrastructure within the project resilience refers to the ability of a community to area in a manner that appropriately connects safely manage weather events, from protecting with an essential public charging network. The people and property, to allowing them to quickly following outlines how Point Pleasant Beach will return to daily life with as minimal interruption address this issue. as possible. As a result, resilience addresses many aspects of land use, transportation, safety, and Accommodating all users into the transportation operations: network will increasingly require attention to electric and other vehicles. • Identifying ways to remove people, Electric vehicles and partial electric vehicles property, and infrastructure from risk to the (vehicles with internal combustion engines that greatest extent possible, and where these are used to extend the range of a vehicle) have items cannot be moved, become one way to reduce vehicle emissions. Continued advancements in technology, • Identifying approaches that minimize increased competition between automakers, and damages. financial incentives at the state and federal levels Resilience, as a component of sustainability have enabled the price of electric vehicles to represents a comprehensive approach to decrease, making them more competitive with managing the built and natural environment. standard internal combustion vehicles.

One of the top impediments to electric vehicle use HURRICANE SANDY in New Jersey, however, is the concern that there The New Jersey Department of Community is insufficient charging infrastructure available, Affairs (NJDCA) established a Post Sandy often referred to as “range anxiety.”6 As the Planning Assistance Grant Program, to support Alternative Fueling Stations map indicates, long range planning for community public charging stations in town are still limited. redevelopment in municipalities and counties While vehicles can often be charged in a that would address conditions created or household garage with a regular outlet, a exacerbated by the storm, and to provide challenge persists for those that live in approaches to rebuilding a community to be apartments or do not have a driveway. To begin more resistant to damage from future storm addressing this issue and expanding the reach of events and encourage sustainable economic electric vehicles, the State of New Jersey has growth. recently adopted changes to the Municipal Land Use Law and the Local Redevelopment and This program required communities to first Housing Law which require communities to prepare a Strategic Recovery Planning Report identify potential charging sites; the State has (SRPR) to evaluate the impacts of the disaster on also offered grant funding for private developers, community features, focusing on planning goals, employers, and municipalities to develop strategies, and priorities leading to actions that publicly accessible charging infrastructure. Point are needed for public safety and economic Pleasant Beach should consider possible

recovery as a prerequisite to additional grant • Investigate opportunities for shared funding. services and mutual aid, in particular with adjoining communities, to improve Point Pleasant Beach adopted a SRPR in May emergency response for a greater number of 2014. The report documents the extensive residents. damage affecting the borough, including damage done to the Point Pleasant Beach Boardwalk, • Consider providing a new generator at the Fisherman Memorial Inlet Parking Lot, the Point municipal building. Pleasant Beach Bathhouse and Food Concession Stand, Bulkheads and Dunes, and various • Provide natural gas backup service for municipal parks. The storm highlighted several generators. key vulnerabilities within the borough, such as • life-threatening wave action and dune-erosion- Provide the Department of Public Works with an emergency staging facility. caused flooding, that posed major fiscal impacts on the municipal budget. The below is a • Provide temporary housing for emergency summarized list of recommendations provided personnel. in the Point Pleasant Beach SRPR for reducing future storm vulnerabilities. A number of these • Update the Floodplain Management Plan. have been enacted and continue to be implemented: • Automate and expedite processing of building and zoning permits. • Incorporate the principals of Ocean County’s 2014 Multi-Jurisdictional All • Reexamine the borough’s Master Plan Hazard Mitigation Plan into the Point Elements and prepare a sustainability Pleasant Beach Borough Master Plan. element to address post-Sandy strategies

and policies related to hazard mitigation, • Floodplain management plans; community resiliency, and forecasted sea level rise and its impacts. • Drainage system maintenance;

• Prepare and adopt a debris management • Emergency preparedness and response; plan. and,

• Revise the borough’s zoning ordinance in • Providing information to the public on accordance with the updates of the master flood risk and how to minimize flood plan and floodplain management plan. damage.

• Streamline the development review process. Each activity is credited a certain number of points, which then translate to the percent • Develop a GIS database and user interface reduction for the community’s flood insurance to catalog and inventory all infrastructure premiums, of up to 45 percent. Currently, Point owned by the borough, including roadways Pleasant Beach participates both in the National and its stormwater and sanitary sewer Flood Insurance Program and the Community collection systems. Rating System program.

• Reinforce existing and provide new bulkheads at various locations. Implementation

• Investigate feasibility of providing dunes Strategies along entire beachfront.

• Develop recovery information resources GOAL 1: CONTINUE IMPROVING THE (e.g., guidebooks, pamphlets, and websites) BOROUGH’S SUSTAINABILITY and a training program for borough staff. EFFORTS

• Continue to participate in the National • Maintain Sustainable Jersey certification. Flood Insurance Program. • Take actions to increase the Borough’s certification from Bronze to Silver. COMMUNITY RATING SYSTEM • Reduce impermeable surfaces, heat island The Federal Emergency Management Agency impacts, and stormwater runoff through the (FEMA) provides communities the ability to use of green infrastructure. access subsidized flood insurance through • Promote smart growth development in participation in the National Flood Insurance downtown and neighborhood centers. Program (NFIP) if they agree to regulate • Consider enhancing the Borough’s Complete floodplain development based on a minimum set of standards. Under the Community Rating Streets Policy. System (CRS), communities that wish to adopt • Incentivize local businesses to participate in higher standards than the NFIP minimum New Jersey Smart Workplaces. requirements can receive additional reductions • Consider design standards and supportive in flood insurance premium rates. zoning requirements around the train station Participation in the CRS program rewards in an effort to incentivize a Transit-Oriented communities for activities that help reduce flood Development (TOD). risk, which include:

• A mix of regulatory actions;

• Acquisition of flood-prone properties;

• Permit electric vehicle charging stations as GOAL 2: IMPLEMENT GREEN accessory uses in all zones. BUILDING TECHNIQUES INTO FUTURE • Consider adopting an ordinance that permits DEVELOPMENT rooftop production as an • Adopt a resolution which promotes green accessory use in appropriate zones. building and infrastructure techniques for • Promote multi-modal transportation commercial and residential developments, opportunities as part of redevelopment and redevelopments and expansions. capital projects. • Construct or update public/commercial buildings to comply with LEED or GOAL 4: IMPROVE BOROUGH’S comparable green building standards. RESILIENCY AGAINST STORM EVENTS • Adopt a borough light pollution reduction • Complete assessment such as the “Getting to policy for public facilities. Resilience: Community Planning Evaluation • Consider installing efficient landscaping that Tool,” which will evaluate readiness to deal conserves water and reduces the use of harsh with flooding situations. chemicals around municipal buildings. • Prepare Coastal Vulnerability Assessment to • Implement a borough-wide composting evaluate the borough’s assets that may be program. impacted by sea level rise and storm-related coastal flooding. GOAL 3: PURSUE CLEAN ENERGY • Prepare an Extreme Temperature Event Plan, ALTERNATIVES AND REDUCE ENERGY identifying strategies to properly manage CONSUMPTION extreme heat/cold events. • Install electric vehicle charging infrastructure • Identify proper emergency communications at public facilities. and educate the public on how to best • Require electric vehicle charging communicate in times of emergency. infrastructure as part of future redevelopment.

1 Definition of Sustainability. New Jersey Department of another sustainable construction certification program, Environmental Protection. www.nj.gov/dep. that is used in more than 70 countries (including the https://www.nj.gov/dep/aqes/definition- United States). There are also “green” certification sustainability.html. Accessed December 3, 2020. programs for different products, such as the EPA’s Energy Star program, which certifies electronics, 2 For example, as part of a 2012 update to their Master appliances, and new homes that utilize energy Plan Transportation Element, Passaic County adopted efficiency. The Forest Stewardship Council certifies guidelines for green streets, providing guidelines about forest products that utilize sustainable forestry practices. siting and design considerations for green infrastructure, along with information on potential best management 4 2015 Point Pleasant Beach Borough Master practices based on different street types. Reexamination and Master Plan Amendments, prepared by Martin Truscott, PP, AICP, LEED GA of T&M 3 While USGBC’s LEED program is one of the more well- Associates, adopted November 4, 2015. known and adopted assessment and certification programs, particularly in the United 5 Action: Energy Efficiency for Municipal Facilities. States, this should not suggest that it is the only program Sustainable Jersey. www.sustainablejersey.com. available. The Living Building Challenge, a program http://www.sustainablejersey.com/actions- created by the Living Future Institute, is a building certification/actions/#close. Accessed December 3, certification program that recognizes buildings that 2020. produce more energy than they use and collect and treat all water on site, among other requirements. The 6 Electric Vehicles in New Jersey: Opportunities and United Kingdom’s BREEAM (Building Research Obstacles. Presentation by Melissa Evanego, Bureau of Establishment Environmental Assessment Method) is Mobile Sources, New Jersey Department of

Environmental Protection Air Quality, Energy and Sustainability. Northern Transportation Air Quality Summit, August 7, 2018.