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John Shardlow, Senior PrincipalStantec Consulting Services Inc.

League of Minnesota Cities Conference, Duluth, Minnesota

June 24th-25th, 2015

Sustainable Infrastructure and

Complete Streets

Patrick Hollister, Active Living PartnerPartnerSHIP 4 Health

David Montgomery, Chief Administrative OfficerCity of Duluth


Complete Streets



John Shardlow, FAICPStantec Consulting Services Inc.



Presentation Overview

• 1. Introduction – Framing the Issues

• 2. GreenStep Cities & New Tool for Your

Use – Regional Indicators Initiative

• 3. Case Study #1 City of Battle

Lake/MnDOT Road Diet

• 4. Case Study #2 City of Duluth,

Superior Street Complete Streets

project

Presentation Overview

• Break

• 5. Envision Sustainable Infrastructure

Rating System

• 6. Panel Questions

• 7. Questions From the Audience

John Shardlow, FAICPStantec Consulting Services Inc.




Complete Streets



Sustainable Infrastructure

• Includes “Complete Streets”, but it isn’t

limited to complete streets

• The Wayzata Water Treatment Facility

recycles 90% of the backwash water

that used to be dumped on the ground

or discharged to surface waters

• Peak Energy Use reduces energy use

by

Objectives For This Session:

• Expand your thinking about

sustainability

• Hopefully frame the issues in ways that

aren’t divisive

• Expose you to some excellent and

diverse examples

• Introduce you to some new tools

Sustainability

• - a requirement of our generation to

manage the resource base such that

the average quality of life that we

ensure ourselves can potentially be

shared by all future generations

• …”non-decreasing quality of life”

World Bank 1994

Can we just maintain the Status-

quo?

• New ideas have entered the

sustainability conversation

• Resiliency – planned steps to provide

protection against future hardship or

weather events (for example)

• Public Health – in broad and diverse ways

from walkability to access to quality food

and much more

Framing the Conversation

• All of the content in this session relates to community conversations about sustainability

• Information is power

• “What if we approached it differently”?

• “How can we manage traffic effectively and better support bicycles, pedestrians, improve air quality & more”?

A Proven Phenomenon

• Any organization, place, campus or

community that takes the time to

measure its total energy use tends to

experience about a 30% reduction in

consumption

State of Minnesota has set a

goal for reducing Greenhouse

gas emissions

• But no implementation strategy or

commitment and

• We are not making significant progress

toward meeting the goal

Who believes human activity

has contributed to climate

change?

• 97% of the Scientific community

• The Pentagon

• Every Insurance Company

• The Pope

• The Hague District Court, Netherlands

Despite all of that…

• I strongly recommend that you leave the whole ‘Who’s to blame’ piece out of your community conversation

• “If the 3 scientists out of 100 are right and human activity doesn’t cause global warming, what’s the worst thing that can happen if we acted as though it does”?, - Falcon Heights Mayor, Peter Lindstrom

Results:

• Cleaner air – less respiratory illness

• Save money

• Conserve natural resources

• Myriad public health benefits

• Build an economy for the 21st Century

Regional Council of Mayors

Healthy & Resilient Communities

Committee; ULI Minnesota

• Regional Indicators Initiative

• Done in collaboration with the

GreenStep Cities Program, MPCA

• Rick Carter, AIA, Becky Alexander, LHB

Architects

Set out to answer the question:

• Can we measure the energy

consumption for an entire city?

REGIONAL INDICATORS INITIATIVEAn Inventory of Energy, Potable Water, Travel, Waste, and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

for Twenty Seven Minnesota Cities from 2007 to 2013

RegionalIndicatorsMN.com

REGIONAL INDICATORS INITIATIVE

BACKGROUND

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s

GreenStep Cities Program:

• Choose from 28 best practices

• GreenStep Cities tracks which practices cities

have adopted, but does not currently have a

method of tracking the effectiveness of these

strategies

• GreenStep Cities Pilot

Regional Indicators Initiative Pilot

• Edina

• Falcon Heights

• Saint Louis Park

BUILDINGS AND

LIGHTING

LAND USE

TRANSPORTATION

ENVIRONMENTAL

MANAGEMENT

ECONOMIC AND

COMMUNITY

DEVELOPMENT


METRICS

ENERGY (IN BTUS): electricity, natural gas, and district

energy consumed citywide (subdivided into residential and

commercial/industrial)

WATER (IN GALLONS): potable water consumed citywide

(subdivided into residential and commercial/industrial)

WASTE (IN POUNDS): citywide municipal solid waste

managed via recycling, composting, combustion, and

landfilling (prorated from countywide data)

TRAVEL (IN VEHICLE MILES TRAVELED): on-road distance

traveled within city limits

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS (IN TONNES CO2E): citywide

greenhouse gas emissions associated with each of the four

indicators

DEMOGRAPHICS

All data is reported both

as a total as well as in

units/capita. Residential

data is reported in

units/household, and

Commercial/Industrial

data is reported in

units/job

AREA

City Area (sf)

WEATHER

Heating Degree Days

Cooling Degree Days

Precipitation (in)

COST (IN DOLLARS): cost estimates associated with each of

the four indicators

COMMON METRICS

ADDITIONAL DATA


RII follows the method outlined in the

ICLEI Community Protocol

Many cities have done greenhouse gas

inventories, but this is the first

state-wide effort of this scale

For RII cities, energy is the largest

contributor to emissions

RII’s primary metrics comprise over

90% of all in-boundary emissions

Other emission sources were also

calculated, including air travel and

wastewater

A COMMON METRIC

BREAKDOWN OF GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS – 2012 (22 cities)

AIR

TRAVEL

6%

WASTE

WATER

1%

ENERGY

67%

VMT

25%

WASTE

1%


TOTAL ENERGY USE

(kBtu/capita/day)


7 YEAR TRENDS

TWENTY-TWO CITIES – WEATHER NORMALIZED ENERGY USE

222 230 234 226241

221 222

0

50

100

150

200

250

300

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

kBtu

/jo

b/day

COM./IND. ENERGY

Electricity Natural Gas Other

267273 270

264

277

256 259

0

50

100

150

200

250

300

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

kBtu

/pers

on/day

TOTAL ENERGY

261 266 265 263 270250 257

0

50

100

150

200

250

300

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

kBtu

/house

hold

/day

RESIDENTIAL ENERGY

Electricity Natural GasCommercial/IndustrialResidential


RII AVERAGE, 241

KBTU/HOUSEHOLD/DAY - 2012

CENTRAL/STAND-ALONE CITIES

237INNER-RING SUBURBS

222OUTER-RING SUBURBS

259

RESIDENTIAL ENERGY USE

202215

250

317

202

148

193209

295

189

233251

239224 225

263246

277 284 293 296

393

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RII AVERAGE, 224

KBTU/JOB/DAY - 2012




200

COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL ENERGY USE

209

237259

339

161

230

178

285

156

399

140

214 208 206 202 202221

176159

204

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189

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TOTAL POTABLE WATER USE

(gallons/capita/day)


7 YEAR TRENDS

TWENTY-TWO CITIES – WATER USE

Commercial/IndustrialResidential

119113

110107 107

115

104

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

gallons/

pers

on/day

TOTAL WATER

70 68 6771 69 72

66

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

gallons/

job/day

COM./IND. WATER

166157 155

143 145158

142

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

180

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

gallons/

house

hold

/day

RESIDENTIAL WATER


RII AVERAGE, 64

GALLONS/CAPITA/DAY - 2012




91

RESIDENTIAL WATER USE

MN AVERAGE*, 68

US AVERAGE*, 98

*State and national data for 2005 from U.S. Geological Survey

55

35

59

49 47

7470 72

103

37

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66

96

8287

82

90

9893

106

99

48

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25

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75

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125

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City of Hugo

• Faced with DNR & court ordered

”protective elevations” for White Bear

Lake

• City pumps 400 M gal/yr. from aquifer

• Golf course conversion from ground to

surface water irrigation results in 100-

200 M gal/yr recharge


TOTAL VEHICLE MILES TRAVELED

(VMT/capita/day)


17 18 1921

30

18

26

10

29

17

2725 25 24

37

25

31

27

37

2421

49

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VEHICLE MILES TRAVELED INCREASES AT GREATER DISTANCES FROM CENTRAL CITIES


VMT/CAPITA/DAY - 2012

RII AVERAGE, 22.7

MN AVERAGE, 28.9US AVERAGE, 25.8


18.3INNER-RING SUBURBS

25.8OUTER-RING SUBURBS

29.4


TOTAL GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

(tonnes CO2e/capita/year)

US AVERAGE (2011) – 17.3

WORLD AVERAGE (2011) – 4.9


TONNES CO2E/CAPITA/DAY - 2012


74%INNER-RING SUBURBS

64%OUTER-RING SUBURBS

61%

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

AVERAGE % OF GHGEMISSIONS FROM ENERGY

ENERGY

VMT

WASTE

AIR TRAVEL

WASTEWATER

GHG EMISSIONS FROM:

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7-YEAR TRENDS

22 CITIES - WEATHER NORMALIZED GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Waste Air Travel RII AverageEnergy Vehicle Travel Wastewater

Non-travel energy is the largest

contributor to emissions

(67%)

Per capita emissions decreased

13% from 2007-2013, due

primarily to a steadily

cleaner grid.

0

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2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

tonnes

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SO WHAT?

TOTAL GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS FROM PRIMARY SOURCES

RII DATA PROJECTIONS


SO WHAT?

WEDGE DIAGRAMMING

Res. Decarbonization

Identify city-specific goals and select reduction strategies to commit to.

Create a wedge diagram template for use by cities in sustainability

planning.


FIVE-YEAR PLAN

Undergo peer review

Develop automated online database to manage

data

Collect and publish data for all metro area

cities in time for use in comprehensive

planning process

Develop tools to assist cities in comprehensive

planning (i.e. summary of city data,

wedge diagram template, workshops)

Expand program to be statewide, and

incorporate into state’s climate action

plan

Continue to track annual data to measure

progress toward goals

Carleton College Climate Action Plan (2011)

PlaNYC 2030 (New York City, 2007)

What if the established

precedent (30% reduction) held

true?

• And every Minnesota City simply had

access to this information?

• Effort is underway to provide it to every

community in the Metropolitan Area as

the next round of Comp Plans

(2018)are prepared


Bemidji

Bloomington

Burnsville

Coon Rapids

Duluth

Eagan

Eden Prairie

Edina

Elk River

Falcon Heights

Hopkins

Kasson

Lake Elmo

Maplewood

Minneapolis

Minnetonka

Oakdale

Richfield

Rochester

Rosemount

Shoreview

Saint Anthony

St. Cloud

St. Louis Park

St. Paul

White Bear Lake

Woodbury

CITIES

PARTNERS

DATA SOURCESPUBLIC AND PRIVATE UTILITIES

Anoka Municipal UtilityCenterPoint EnergyConnexus EnergyDakota Electric AssociationDuluth Comfort SystemsDuluth Steam CooperativeGreat River EnergyHennepin Energy Recovery CenterMinnesota Energy ResourcesMinnesota PowerMinnesota Valley Electric CooperativeNRG EnergyOlmsted County Waste to Energy FacilityRochester Public UtilitySt. Paul District EnergyUniversity of Minnesota (Southeast Steam)Western Lake Superior Sanitation DistrictXcel Energy

STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Duluth Port AuthorityHennepin CountyMetropolitan Airports CommissionMetropolitan Council of the Twin CitiesMinnesota Department of AdministrationMinnesota Department of Employment and Economic DevelopmentMinnesota Department of Natural ResourcesMinnesota Department of TransportationMinnesota Pollution Control AgencyRochester International AirportU.S. Energy Information AdministrationUniversity of Minnesota

OTHER

Degree Days.netICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability

RegionalIndicatorsMN.com

2013 Highway 78 Complete Streets Project

What are “Complete Streets”?

Complete Streets is a transportation policy and design approach that requires streets to beplanned, designed, operated, and maintained to enable safe, convenient and comfortable travel and access for users of all ages and abilitiesregardless of their mode of transportation.Complete Streets allow for safe travel by thosewalking, bicycling, driving automobiles, ridingpublic transportation, or delivering goods.

Minnesota communities withlocal CS policies or resolutions!

Bloomington, Rochester, Hennepin County, St. Paul,

Albert Lea, Duluth, Independence, Byron, Stewartville,Big Lake, Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Council ofGovernments, St. Louis Park, New Hope, Red Wing,

North St. Paul, Pipestone, Breckenridge, St. Cloud Area

Planning Organization, Rochester-Olmsted Council ofGovernments, Battle Lake, Dilworth, Wilkin County,

Eagan, Falcon Heights, St. Cloud, Clay County, Otter Tail County, Northfield, Austin, Fergus Falls, Frazee, Ottertail, andParkers Prairie!

Battle Lake adopted a Complete Streets Policy and startedthe Highway 78 planning process on June 14, 2011!

Battle Lake met monthly to plan forMnDOT’s 2013 Highway 78 project!

Battle Lake voted to submit their Concept Plan toMnDOT on Oct. 25, 2011!

Battle Lake’s Concept Plan!

MnDOT Open House for 2013 Highway 78 ProjectJune 19, 2012, Battle Lake City Hall

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The Battle Lake City Council approved the plan onSeptember 25, 2012!

Highway 78 Complete Streets Project Began Late Summer 2013!

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Thank you, City of Battle

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APA-MN Annual Conference, Bemidji, September 23-25, 2015

Special Pre-Conference Session on Planning and Public Health Wednesday, September 23, 8:00am – 11:30am

Presentation: Complete Streets in Rural CommunitiesWednesday, November 4, 2015

Stefanie Seskin, Smart Growth America, Washington , DC Patrick Hollister, PartnerSHIP 4 Health, Fergus Falls, MN

Patrick HollisterPartnerSHIP 4 HealthBecker, Clay, Otter Tail, and Wilkin [email protected]

Contact me for more information!

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CASE STUDY # 2

• A Complete Streets Project in a Much

Different Context

Superior Street

Reconstruction

Finding Balance in a Multi-

Model World

Superior Street (1870)

• One of Duluth’s oldest streets.– “Superior Street was a

mere trail cut through the woods, so rough that sledges and wagons, which constituted traffic, had to wind their way carefully around tree stumps and boulders…Wolves, bears, and deer living in the surrounding woods used to come to the edge of town to peer curiously at the usurping humans, and at night the cries of wild animals could be heard . . . “

• E.A. Silberstein (Duluth, 1870)


• The City Grows

– What year were

Duluth’s current

water and sewer

systems installed?

Commercial and retail

hub

History of transportation

challenges – “Poor old downtown Superior Street.

Almost everybody knows it’s overused . . . an 80-ft-wide strip of

street and sidewalks that is being

used at 20 percent above its

carrying capacity . . . used daily by

17,000 vehicles and 13,000

pedestrians” (DNT, 1975)

Superior Street (1950s)


1980s

I-35 Extension &

Downtown Renaissance Projects

District Heating System - Today

Steam supplies 90% of the thermal

energy provided to customers

– No condensate return

– Inefficiencies inherent in steam

distribution

Over 90 million gallons

of water consumed

annually

Coal fueled

Duluth Community Energy

System

The VisionUtilize local energy sources and reduce

carbon emissions

Enhance system efficiency

Remain reliable & resilient

Remain cost competitive

Traffic Circulation

Project design will

need to address space

allocation related to:

Vehicle Traffic

Transit

Parking

Pedestrians

Bicyclist

1. Fewer Millennials Want

Cars2. Complete Streets – For All

Users

3. Biking

Gaining in

Popularity

In Duluth …

How to connect?

Public & Stakeholder

InvolvementOctober 2013 thru Summer 2015

Six Public Meetings are planned:

Meeting 1 – Project intent, timing and potential funding

Meeting 2 – Community Workshop to generate ideas

Meetings 3 & 4 – Concept alternatives (street layout, streetscape options and materials)

Meetings 5 & 6 - Preferred layout, design elements, construction phasing and potential funding.

Additional meetings as needed such as individual business and property owner sessions.

June 2015

ENERGYGeothermal

Hydroelectric

Nuclear

Coal

Natural Gas

Oil/Refinery

Wind

Solar

Biomass

WATER

Potable water distribution

Capture/Stora

ge

Water Reuse

Storm Water

Management

Flood Control

WASTESolid waste

Recycling

Hazardous

Waste

Collection &

Transfer

TRANSPORTAirports

Roads

Highways

Bikes

Pedestrians

Railways

Public Transit

Ports

Waterways

LANDSCAPEPublic Realm

Parks

Ecosystem

Services

INFORMATIONTelecommunications

Internet

Phones

Satellites

Data Centers

Sensors

What Types of Infrastructure

Will Envision Rate?

60 Credits in 5 Categories

Purpose, Community, Wellbeing

Siting, Land and Water, Biodiversity

Materials, Energy, Water

Collaboration, Management, Planning

Emission, Resilience

QUALITY

OF LIFE

LEADERSHIP

RESOURCE

ALLOCATION

NATURAL

WORLD

CLIMATE

AND RISK

Levels of Achievement

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5

10

15

20

25

30

Improved Enhanced Superior Conserving Restorative

Po

ints

QL1.1 IMPROVE COMMUNITY QUALITY OF LIFE

No Negative Impact

Online Scoresheet

Table Continues for All of Your Projects

Online Scoresheet

Table Continues for All 60 Credits

Scoring Summary

Award Levels

AwardMinimum Applicable

Points

Bronze

Silver

Gold

Platinum

30%

40%

50%

20%

Fee Schedule

Project Size ($) Non-Member Price ISI Member Price

Up to 2M $3000 $2400

2-5M $8500 $7000

5-25M $17,000 $14,000

25-100M $25,000 $21,000

100-250M $33,000 $28,000

Over 250M$5000 per 100M above base price of

$20,000

3. Optional Appeals Fee: $500 per credit

1. Registration Fee: $1000

2. Verification Fee:

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