Sustainable City Plan
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Sustainable City pLAn First Annual Report 2015-2016 1 Contents Introduction Letter from Mayor Eric Garcetti 04 How to Read the Report 06 Meet the Departmental Chief 08 Sustainability Officers Environment 01. Local Water 10 02. Local Solar 16 03. Energy Efficient Buildings 22 04. Carbon & Climate Leadership 28 05. Waste & Landfills 34 First Annual Report Economy 2015-2016 06. Housing & Development 38 07. Mobility & Transit 46 08. Prosperity & Green Jobs 52 09. Preparedness & Resiliency 58 Equity 10. Air Quality 64 11. Environmental Justice 70 12. Urban Ecosystem 76 13. Livable Neighborhoods 82 14. Lead by Example 88 After Acknowledgements 94 Letter from Mayor Eric Garcetti We released Los Angeles’ just presented to City Council, helping tie resources to first ever Sustainable City results, including solar and EV infrastructure for City pLAn last year. It is the first of L.A. facilities And we continue to provide metric comprehensive vision for updates on our progress. protecting the environment, growing our economy, and We still have a lot to do. We need to move more improving equity for every quickly on achieving our local solar goals and build Angeleno. Here are some of on innovative process improvements at DBS and our incredible results in just LADWP that have removed red tape and improved over a year: interconnection times. We may have the most solar of any city in the U.S., but we must continue to move · Reducing water use by 19%, nearly achieving our aggressively forward and ensure that the abundant goal of 20% water reduction a year ahead of time sunshine that falls on our neighborhoods is not wasted. and continuing L.A.’s leadership as the most water efficient city per capita of any big city in the U.S.; We also have faced unexpected challenges. The disastrous gas leak at SoCal Gas’ Aliso Canyon facility · Exceeding our goal of 1,000 publicly available EV disrupted the lives of over 10,000 residents. It was the charging stations by 2017 ahead of time. L.A. is largest methane gas release in our nation’s history that now home to the most in any city in the U.S.; laid bare our dependency on fossil fuels, further proof that we need to redouble efforts to move as quickly as · Reducing our greenhouse gas emissions by 20% possible toward a carbon free future. since 1990; Introduction Much work remains on the pLAn outcomes we have · Hosting the first US-China Climate Leaders’ Summit, set for 2017 and beyond. That is why I am so pleased leading to multiple city-to-city partnerships on that over 60 nonprofits, businesses, universities, schools, Introduction clean transportation, air quality, and clean tech; and individuals have made commitments to “Adopt the pLAn.” This is only the beginning, and I hope that you · Being the first big U.S. city to raise the minimum will be inspired to make your own commitment as you wage to $15; see how far we have come with the actions here in the report. · Enacting the Clean Up Green Up ordinance, groundbreaking policy providing tools to Together, we will make Los Angeles the most communities suffering from air quality, polluting sustainable city in the U.S., and the world. Thank you industries, and other injustices to help ensure for everything you do to make that vision possible. healthier neighborhoods. Sincerely, In this first annual report, we lay out our progress in achieving the outcomes and targets in the pLAn along with other milestones. I am proud of the 27 Departmental Chief Sustainability Officers who are championing sustainability in their departments, and Mayor Eric Garcetti across the City. These amazing women and men are the heart and soul of the pLAn, working closely with their General Managers and my Chief Sustainability Officer Matt Petersen--and his team--to collaborate across departments, deliver results, and drive innovation. That’s not all. I am holding my GM’s accountable for the results. The pLAn is also reflected in my budget I 4 5 How to Read the Report Chapter Title Local Water Local Water Color Guide Vision Feature Story City Early Wins Feature Story City Early Wins A visual progression of the pLAn section The vision statement from the pLAn for each Replenishing L.A.’s Incentivized Rebates: Water Supply DWP and Conservation colors to inform the reader where they are in topic that is ambitious and achievable in the Highlighting In May 2015, Mayor Garcetti, Los Angeles World “We must re-imagine our L.A.’s award-winning Save the Drop campaign Progress by helped mobilize Angelenos to replace 33 Airports and Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation signed relationship with water, million square feet of turf, resulting in over 1 an agreement authorizing construction of a $39 million billion gallons of water saved per year. We also the annual report next 20 years a story facility aimed at cleaning up polluted stormwater runoff We must be responsible with how a City of L.A. saved nearly 3 billion gallons of water through from LAX before it can flow into the Santa Monica Bay. we treat it, across its entire cycle. toilets, smart irrigation controls, and other This underground facility will put 60 million gallons of devices for which DWP provides rebates. demonstrating water into the groundwater basin each year to replenish We can no longer afford to let department on the water supply. The five-acre open field (a byproduct stormwater runoff as pollution into of these efforts) will also become park space. our ocean. Photo credit: LADWP progress on Approximately $32 million of the project’s cost will be an outcome, covered by bond proceeds from the voter-approved We must clean it, we must capture Proposition O to pay for water clean-up projects. it, and we must put it to good use.” a significant Mayor Eric Garcetti initiative and/or at the project site near LAX Expanding recycled outcome, May 7, 2015 water in Griffith Park related project LA DWP and Rec & Parks began constructing a water storage tank as Environment initiative, and/ part of a larger recycled water project in the last year for Griffith Park and the Roosevelt Golf Course, which will produce 120 million gallons of recycled water per year. or project Environment Photo credit: LADWP Local Water Chapter 01 Transforming LAX Vision Angelenos have with drought tolerant reduced their water landscaping LAWA converted 2.39 acres of turf Progress usage by 19%. in the Central Terminal Area to low We lead the nation in or no water landscaping. 63% of the water conservation and Equivalency Thanks to the efforts of Angelenos to facilities at LAX have been converted Local respond to the call for conservation to recycled water irrigation. Potable and the Save the Drop campaign, water irrigation at LAX has been source the majority of Over 304 billion gallons have been reduced from 5 days a week to 2 our water locally. saved in L.A. since November 2014. Photo credit: LAWA WaterWise Project days a week. (Deccember 2015) That is equivalent to four billion cubic feet, which would fill the entire Rose Water Bowl 200 times! Introduction Progress on Select Outcome Targets 12 1313 2017 2017 2017 Environment -20% Environment Introduction Reduce average per capita Replace 95 miles of water Reduce annual sewer potable water use by 20%. pipe infrastructure. spills to fewer than 100. Angelenos have reduced DWP has replaced 38 miles of Spills totaled 118 in FY 2014-15, water use by 18%. water main through January 2016 down from 175 in FY 2013-2014. Los Angeles has embraced the “new normal” (DWP, 12/15) (Bureau of Sanitation, 2015) in the fifth year of a persistent drought. The pLAn’s Local Water goals ensure a strong future for our growing economy while protecting one of our most precious resources. It does this by developing local water supply, through capturing In the Last Year and cleaning storm water, through groundwater recharge and recycling wastewater – all to help significantly reduce our dependency on imported 2015 was the warmest Governor Jerry Brown LA DWP established a new water. In addition, it prepares us to bounce back year on record, as one extended the State of cistern rebate—in addition to Local Water Local Water from possible disasters, and keeps our rivers and of the worst droughts in California’s statewide rain barrels--to encourage beaches clean, usable, and thriving with wildlife. California history… emergency conservation Angelenos to capture and restrictions on water use reuse more water during the Feature Story:Partner Early Wins through October 2016 rainy season Partner Early Wins Heal the Bay set to Replenishing LA’simprove water literacy in Los Angeles 14 GettyImages-533971191 credit: Photo 15 Progress on Water Supply Heal the Bay, Pacoima Beautiful and Pacific American Volunteer Association launched a program to improve water literacy and an outcome, In May 2015, Mayor Garcetti, Los Angeles World “enhanceWe must Angelenos’re-imagine understanding our of our Airports and Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation signed currentrelationship dependency with water, on water imports and an agreement authorizing construction of a $39 million the potential for increasing local water supply. initiative, Adopt facility aimed at cleaning up polluted stormwater runoff We must be responsible with how from LAX beforePhoto it cancredit: Healflow the intoBay the Santa Monica we treat it, across its entire cycle. Bay. This underground facility will put 60 million gallons the pLAn of water into the groundwater basin each year to We can no longer afford to let replenish the water supply. The five-acre open field(a stormwater runoff as pollution into byproduct of these efforts) will also become park space.