Chapter 2.66
COMMUNITY SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE
Sections:
2.66.005 Established – Membership.
2.66.005 Established – Membership.
The community sustainability committee is established and shall consist of five voting members including no less than three members who are current residents of the city and up to two members who live outside the city but within the city urban growth boundary. The committee shall also consist of certain nonvoting ex officio members, the planning and community development department director, or designee, serving as the primary staff liaison and secretary of the commission. (Ord. 2017-05 § 2)
2.66.020 Powers and duties.
The community sustainability committee shall be advisory only and shall be empowered to study and recommend to the council on the subject of education and promotion of wise and efficient use and conservation of energy and natural resources by the city of Lincoln City and all its citizens and visitors. In doing so, the committee shall recommend to the city council the adoption of ordinances, rules, regulations, policies, implementation strategies and funding related to the community portion of the 2007 Lincoln City Sustainability Plan (adopted by Resolution 2007-29) and supported in Resolutions 2007-30 and 2007-31. Such implementation includes but is not limited to:
A. Promotion of environmentally, socially, and economically improved alternatives for development, operations, and maintenance in the Lincoln City community at large;
B. Education and awareness of energy and resource conservation issues;
C. Green building codes and green power generation;
D. Recycling, composting, source reduction and solid waste/landfill reduction issues;
E. Electric and water conservation issues;
F. Planting of native vegetation, invasive species removal, nonpoint pollution/watershed protection; and
G. Mass transit, affordable housing and alternative transportation. (Ord. 2017-05 § 2)