11.2 Sustainable Community Development

(2.55 points)

Rationale

Sustainable Community Development Practices promote physical, social, and affective ties of occupants to a community, contributing to increased economic stability and enhanced social capital.

Strategy Requirements

Implement a minimum of two of the following practices to promote sustainable community development:

• Sustainable hiring practices (e.g. implement equitable contracting and procurement policy, living wage policy, etc)
• Project impact assessment (e.g. evaluate and report on the project's impacts on the community, including fiscal, employment, housing, and quality of life impacts)
• Community benefits agreement (e.g. execute an agreement that sets the benefits and priorities of the development by working with a coalition of community groups to address local priorities)
• Housing supports 
• Homeless support services
• Levy developer exactions and impact fees

Design Certification

Submit an official or draft statement describing a minimum of two qualifying sustainable community development practices that will be implemented.

Built Certification

Submit an official statement describing a minimum of two qualifying sustainable community development practices that will be implemented.