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Clerk 01/20/2011
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A MOTION requesting the executive to apply for membership for King County in the Seattle 2030 District.
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WHEREAS, the Seattle 2030 District is comprised of public and private entities in downtown Seattle seeking to develop realistic, measureable and innovative strategies to assist district property owners, managers and tenants in meeting aggressive goals that reduce environmental impacts of facility construction and operations, and
WHEREAS, through collaboration among diverse stakeholders, leverage of existing and development of new incentives and financing mechanisms and development and communication of shared resources, the Seattle 2030 District seeks to prove the business case for: sustainability; reducing energy and water use; and reducing of carbon emissions from auto and freight, and
WHEREAS, the Seattle 2030 District now includes the following Seattle neighborhoods in its current and planned boundaries: South Lake Union; Uptown; Belltown; Denny Triangle; Downtown Retail Core; Capitol Hill; First Hill; Waterfront; West Edge; Pioneer Square; International District; and SoDo, and
WHEREAS, the Seattle 2030 District has established the following goals for existing buildings: a minimum-ten-percent reduction in energy use below the national average by 2015, with incremental targets reaching a fifty-percent reduction by 2030; a minimum ten percent reduction in water use below the national average by 2015, with incremental targets reaching a fifty-percent reduction by 2030; and a minimum ten-percent reduction in carbon emissions from auto and freight below the current downtown average by 2015 with incremental targets reaching a fifty-percent reduction by 2030, and
WHEREAS the Seattle 2030 District has established the following goals for new construction: a sixty-percent reduction in energy use below the national average beginning immediately with incremental targets, reaching a target of no net contribution of carbon e...

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