Greenhouse Gas Policies & Compliance Checklist

The Town has updated its General Plan Greenhouse Gas (GHG) policies and developed a GHG Consistency Checklist to facilitate the reduction of greenhouse gases consistent with State and Town goals. The GHG Consistency Checklist allows for streamlined GHG environmental review of development projects. A GHG Consistency Checklist Flowchart was created to summarize the GHG Consistency Checklist process. This project was funded by a Clean Energy Planning Program grant through the California Energy Commission.  

Documents

• General Plan Greenhouse Gas Policies
• Greenhouse Gas Consistency Checklist
• Greenhouse Gas Consistency Checklist Flowchart

Environmental Document

• EIR Addendum

Public Hearings

Town Council, February 4, 2026

• Agenda and Video (Archived Meeting)
• Staff Presentation

Planning Commission, January 13, 2026

• Agenda and Video (Archived Meeting)
• Staff Presentation

Previous Community Engagement

Survey Results

The survey closed on September 7, 2025. A summary of the survey results is available here Version OptionsGreenhouse Gas Policies & Compliance ChecklistHeadline Version OptionsGreenhouse Gas Policies & Compliance ChecklistHeadline. 

Previous Community Meetings

Meeting No. 1 - General Plan GHG Policies, August 25, 2025

Information about the GHG Emissions section of the Town’s 2040 General Plan and what it means to create updated climate policies that are specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely was presented. 

The meeting video is available here Version OptionsGreenhouse Gas Policies & Compliance ChecklistHeadline Version OptionsGreenhouse Gas Policies & Compliance ChecklistHeadline. The PowerPoint presentation is available here Version OptionsGreenhouse Gas Policies & Compliance ChecklistHeadline.

Meeting No. 2 - Future GHG Compliance Checklist, August 28, 2025

The focus of this meeting was on the creation of the GHG Compliance Checklist. 

The meeting video is available here Version OptionsGreenhouse Gas Policies & Compliance ChecklistHeadline Version OptionsGreenhouse Gas Policies & Compliance ChecklistHeadline Version OptionsGreenhouse Gas Policies & Compliance ChecklistHeadline. The PowerPoint presentation is available here Version OptionsGreenhouse Gas Policies & Compliance ChecklistHeadline.