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The
Plan - Campaign Four: Environmental Stewardship
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Policy:
It is the policy of our city to maintain and
enhance, through individual and collective efforts of
our citizens, businesses and governments, the overall
quality of our environmental assets and resources (air,
land and water quality), our community's three great waterways
(Lake Ontario, the Genesee River and the Erie Canal),
our unique and historic parks system, our open space areas
and urban forest and our clean neighborhood environments.
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GOALS |
STRATEGIES |
(A)
Reduce the amounts of litter in our community and expand
recycling and composting activities and efforts among
our citizens and businesses.
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1. Develop
a coordinated anti-litter, anti graffiti, and recycling
public information and education program |
| (B) Reduce
the amounts and toxicity of the various forms of pollution
entering our environment and the public health threats
from all forms of environmental pollution and contaminants.
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1. Work
with Monroe County's Household Hazardous Waste Program
to promote and expand collection.
2. Promote and participate with State and County pollution
prevention programs.
3. Develop and conduct targeted information and educational
activities on the effects of contaminants of concern and
ways to prevent pollution.
4. Promote and facilitate investigation and action regarding
toxic contaminants.
5. Develop a community-wide plan to respond to lead poisoning
especially in children
6. Coordinate with Monroe County on its implementation
of the Rochester Embayment Remedial Action Plan (RAP)
and the County's Health Action pollution prevention recommendations.
7. Develop and promote local pollution prevention incentives
for businesses.
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| (C) Encourage,
undertake and review development and activities in a way
that protects and sustains our varied ecosystems and neighborhood
environments. |
1. Implement
and enforce new development and project review requirements.
2. Provide the public information and educational opportunities
on the importance of sustainable development and ecosystem
preservation.
3. Implement and enforce landscape and urban forest controls
and protection measures.
4. Increase and promote neighborhood cleanup as a regular
part of citizenship.
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(D)
Create awareness, among our citizens, of the health
dangers associated with exposure to harmful materials.
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1. Collaborate
with existing public health information and education
efforts to address pollutants of concern.
2. Hold a Rochester symposium or convention on environmental
health issues. |
(E)
Preserve and enhance our waterways, parks, urban forest,
recreation and open space areas through a regional "no-net-loss"
approach and maximized environmental benefits derived
from those resources and assets.
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1. Promote
existing water quality and open space protection efforts
and collaborate with County and State activities.
2. Promote the use, understanding and improved management
of parks, waterways and the urban forest. |
(F)
Create an environmentally aware community that practices
the values of environmental stewardship and responsibility
and communicates those values to future generations.
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1. Develop
and implement a pilot program to teach the value of environmental
stewardship to a specific target audience
Linkage to Campaign 8 to promote our environmental
assets as a tourist attraction |
(G)
Support constituencies that promote recognition, preservation
and enhancement of our parks, recreation and open space
system and other environmental assets.
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1. Continue
(or become) an active partner in area and regional environmental
organizations and activities
2. Hold a Rochester "Environmental Issues and Assets Symposium"
for environmental constituencies
3. Develop and implement an environmental stewardship
award program
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| (H) Reclaim
designated "brownfields" and other contaminated land,
facilities and waterways for useful, productive development.
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1. Complete
and maintain an inventory of underutilized and abandoned
industrial and commercial properties, areas and waterways
for targeted cleanup, marketing and promotion
2. Continue and refine targeted City Investigation and
Cleanup Program
3. Lobby and advocate for new, balanced, streamlined state
and federal voluntary cleanup & brownfield legislation
4. Establish City brownfield redevelopment guidance program
for the development industry
5. Establish local industrial/commercial land reuse policies
that create competitive advantages for reuse and encourage
private sector investment |
