Empowering Municipal Sustainability: A Guide for Towns, Cities, and Citizens

ISBN-13: 9783110689815 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 243 str.

Alexandra Lajoux

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION

PART I: SETTING SUSTAINABILITY GOALS

Chapter 1: Identifying Your Key Environmental and Financial Issues

Chapter 2: Mapping Your Municipality (Key Assets and Players)

Chapter 3: Encouraging Activist Involvement in Local Elections

Chapter 4: Building Public-Private Partnerships

PART II: EXTERNAL FINANCING SOURCES

Chapter 5: Land Trusts

Chapter 6: Municipal Bonds

Chapter 7: Government Grants

Chapter 8: Corporate and Private Foundation Grants

Chapter 9: Using Resources Already Available

PART III: TOOLS FOR CHANGE

Chapter 9: Setting Budgets and Tax Rates

Chapter 10: Passing Ordinances for Zoning (Industrial, Commercial, Residential), Density, and Preservation

Chapter 11: Asserting Eminent Domain

Chapter 12: Impact Fees, Annexation, and Other Tools

CONCLUSION

APPENDICES

O autorze

Alexandra Reed Lajoux, Chief Knowledge Officer Emeritus, National Association of Corporate Directors, USA