CE4: Government Education

(1 or 4 points)

Purpose

Educate local governmental agencies about environmental design.

Criteria

Government Education-Attempt (1 point) Work with local government officials to try to change existing codes or ordinances to accommodate any strategy required or proposed within the EarthCraft Communities Certification Program.

OR

Government Education- Succeed (4 points) Succeed in changing existing codes or ordinances to accommodate a strategy required or proposed within the EarthCraft Communities Certification Program.

Verification 

• Electronic copy or link to existing ordinance(s) from which the project is requesting a variance. 
• Narrative including the name of the ECC requirement or credit directly relating to the ordinance.
• Agenda(s) & Meeting minutes clearly indicating the request was discussed at a governmental meeting and/or written correspondence from governmental officials describing how they intend to handle the request for code change, barriers to the change, reasons for engaging the issue or not, etc.

OR 

• Narrative including the name of the ECC requirement or credit directly relating to the ordinance. 
• Electronic copy or link to the new ordinance(s).