Creating a cleaner, greener, and healthier Detroit, together
Meeting the needs of our current generation without sacrificing the needs of future generations
• Established in 2017 • Mission is to facilitate healthy, green, vibrant, accessible neighborhoods where all Detroiters can contribute and benefit through: • Collaboration between City departments and agencies; • Engagement and partnership among the City, citizens, and relevant organizations; and • Process and policy improvement • Sustainability Action Agenda launched in 2019
• Established in 2017 • Mission is to facilitate healthy, green, vibrant, accessible neighborhoods where all Detroiters can contribute and benefit through: • Collaboration between City departments and agencies; • Engagement and partnership among the City, citizens, and relevant organizations; and • Process and policy improvement • Sustainability Action Agenda launched in 2019
• Empowered 14 residents as Sustainability Ambassadors (2 per council district) to build local support and buy-in • Engaged 6,800+ Detroiters through townhalls, meetings, web, and surveys • Worked with 28 City departments though Interdepartmental Workgroup • Guided by a Sustainability Advisory Commission (Co-chaired by Bedrock, DTE Energy, and DEA) • Leveraged expertise and technical support from Bloomberg Associates and AECOM
Equitable, Green City All Detroiters thrive and prosper in an equitable, green city; have access to Clean, Connected Neighborhoods affordable, quality homes; live in clean, connected neighborhoods; and Affordable, Quality Homes work together to steward resources.
Healthy, Thriving People Clean, Connected Neighborhoods • Transform vacant lots and structures • Improve air quality and reduce impacts into safe, productive, sustainable spaces from pollution • Reduce waste sent to landfills • Increase access to healthy food, green • Make it easier and safer to get around spaces , and recreation opportunities Detroit without a personal vehicle • Advance equity in access to economic opportunity Affordable, Quality Homes Equitable, Green City • Enhance infrastructure and operations to • Reduce the total costs of housing, improve resilience to climate impacts including utilities • Reduce municipal and citywide • Improve the health and safety of existing greenhouse gas emissions and new housing
Sample Outcome Goal Indicator Increase access to healthy food, green Percentage of residents within a 10-minute spaces, and recreation opportunities: walk to a park HTP HTP Improve air quality and reduce exposure Number of trees planted in the 20 most to pollution vulnerable census tracts Number of low-income households served by water efficiency programs Reduce the total cost of housing, AQH AQH including utilities Average residential energy consumption per capita Citywide recycling and composting diversion CCN Reduce waste sent to landfills rate Municipal greenhouse gas emissions Reduce municipal and citywide EGC EGC greenhouse gas emissions Community greenhouse gas emissions
Healthy, Thriving People Clean, Connected Neighborhoods • Transform vacant lots and structures • Improve air quality and reduce impacts into safe, productive, sustainable spaces from pollution • Reduce waste sent to landfills • Increase access to healthy food, green • Make it easier and safer to get around spaces , and recreation opportunities Detroit without a personal vehicle • Advance equity in access to economic opportunity Affordable, Quality Homes Equitable, Green City • Enhance infrastructure and operations to • Reduce the total costs of housing, improve resilience to climate impacts including utilities • Reduce municipal and citywide • Improve the health and safety of existing greenhouse gas emissions and new housing
Healthy, Thriving People Clean, Connected Neighborhoods • Transform vacant lots and structures • Improve air quality and reduce impacts into safe, productive, sustainable spaces from pollution GSD has renovated over 148 • Reduce waste sent to landfills • Increase access to healthy food, green parks, adding over 100 acres of • Make it easier and safer to get around spaces , and recreation opportunities parkland Detroit without a personal vehicle • Advance equity in access to economic opportunity Affordable, Quality Homes Equitable, Green City • Enhance infrastructure and operations to • Reduce the total costs of housing, improve resilience to climate impacts including utilities • Reduce municipal and citywide • Improve the health and safety of existing greenhouse gas emissions and new housing
Healthy, Thriving People Clean, Connected Neighborhoods • Transform vacant lots and structures • Improve air quality and reduce impacts into safe, productive, sustainable spaces from pollution GSD has renovated over 148 • Reduce waste sent to landfills GSD has renovated over 50 parks, • Increase access to healthy food, green parks, adding over 100 acres of • Make it easier and safer to get around adding over 12 acres of parkland spaces , and recreation opportunities parkland Detroit without a personal vehicle • Advance equity in access to economic opportunity Affordable, Quality Homes Equitable, Green City • Enhance infrastructure and operations to • Reduce the total costs of housing, improve resilience to climate impacts HRD has facilitated the creation of including utilities over 750 new affordable units • Reduce municipal and citywide • Improve the health and safety of existing greenhouse gas emissions and new housing
Healthy, Thriving People Clean, Connected Neighborhoods • Transform vacant lots and structures • Improve air quality and reduce impacts We have created over 43 miles of into safe, productive, sustainable spaces from pollution GSD has renovated over 148 bike lanes in the last 3 years, the • Reduce waste sent to landfills GSD has renovated over 50 parks, • Increase access to healthy food, green parks, adding over 100 acres of most of any city in North America • Make it easier and safer to get around adding over 12 acres of parkland spaces , and recreation opportunities parkland Detroit without a personal vehicle • Advance equity in access to economic opportunity Affordable, Quality Homes Equitable, Green City • Enhance infrastructure and operations to • Reduce the total costs of housing, improve resilience to climate impacts HRD has facilitated the creation of HRD has facilitated the creation of including utilities over 750 new affordable units over 600 new affordable units • Reduce municipal and citywide • Improve the health and safety of existing greenhouse gas emissions and new housing
Healthy, Thriving People Clean, Connected Neighborhoods • Transform vacant lots and structures • Improve air quality and reduce impacts Our entire bus fleet is now We have created over 43 miles of We have created over 43 miles of into safe, productive, sustainable spaces from pollution equipped with Wi-Fi, enabling GSD has renovated over 148 bike lanes in the last 3 years, the bike lanes in the last 3 years, the • Reduce waste sent to landfills GSD has renovated over 50 parks, • Increase access to healthy food, green passengers to access the internet parks, adding over 100 acres of most of any city in North America most of any city in North America • Make it easier and safer to get around adding over 12 acres of parkland spaces , and recreation opportunities while taking the bus! parkland Detroit without a personal vehicle • Advance equity in access to economic opportunity Affordable, Quality Homes Equitable, Green City • Enhance infrastructure and operations to • Reduce the total costs of housing, DWSD built green infrastructure to improve resilience to climate impacts HRD has facilitated the creation of HRD has facilitated the creation of including utilities manage stormwater from > 900 over 750 new affordable units over 600 new affordable units • Reduce municipal and citywide • Improve the health and safety of existing acres of impervious surfaces greenhouse gas emissions and new housing
Timeline To be complete in 2020 Accomplishments Impacts • 120 buses currently have Wi-Fi • Already met goal of • All will have in 2020 120 buses outlined in • Increased digital connectivity for Agenda Detroiters • Transportation • Workforce Partners • Technology
Timeline New programming in summer 2020 Impacts Accomplishments • Nutrition education, cooking classes, • Tasting stations at and gardens at four rec centers day camps • Commercial kitchen opportunities • Procured grant to • Farmer’s Market expand programming • Parks and • Keep Growing Recreation Detroit Partners • Health • United Way • Eastern Market
1-year program began Fall 2019 Timeline Year 2 expansion Accomplishments Impacts • 100 home pilot • Brought together • 20% reduction in cost of water bill philanthropy and • Employ/train adults and youth in private sector skilled trades • Increasing skilled • Expand to 500- 1,000 homes annually trades training • DWSD • Wayne Metro Partners • Cedar Tree • Kohler/Dupont Foundation • ECN
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