Creating a Sustainable City
Project Introduction

Sustainability Master Plan - Creating a Sustainable City

On December 18, 2007, the Mayor and City Council adopted the City's first Sustainability Master Plan. The Sustainability Master Plan is meant to serve as a policy framework for the City of Sacramento to ensure that sustainability concerns are incorporated into the City's decision making processes.

The Sustainability Master Plan is intended to be a means for Creating a Sustainable City, not an end. The plan is a tool for future operational and policy decisions. To proceed in a sensible way to change long-standing environmental practices, we have developed focus areas, goals and targets to be achieved.

As a major landowner, employer, building manager, fleet operator, utility owner and operator, consumer of goods and services, and service provider, the City of Sacramento has both the opportunity and the capacity to bring about significant improvements in environmental quality in and around the region.

By integrating environmentally sustainable practices into City policies, procedures, operations, and fostering collaboration across City government, the City's sustainability Master Plan - Creating a Sustainable City, will work to protect and enhance the quality of life for current and future generations in the City of Sacramento. Leading by example, the sustainability Master Plan promotes responsible management and effective stewardship of the City's built and natural environments; transforming the City of Sacramento into a model government agency that is clean, healthy, resource-efficient, and environmentally conscientious.

2008 Sustainability Implementation Plan

On February 12, 2008, the Mayor and City Council adopted the 2008 Sustainability Implementation Plan. (A smaller black-and-white version is also available.) This is a companion document to the Master Plan. It identifies key initiatives that staff plans to implement in 2008 to move the City towards the goals and targets identified in the Master Plan. The plan was developed by subject matter experts within the City and the community. While the plan does not fund new City programs, the initiatives within the plan will have a great impact on reducing energy usage by City facilities and will begin to educate City employees and the public on how to live more sustainably.