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04/22/2013 Redwood City has consistently been ahead of the curve on solid waste diversion, achieving a 55 percent diversion rate in the 2005 baseline year and exceeding 60 percent in recent years. The City has adopted an ordinance banning polystyrene foodware and a single use bag ordinance effective in 2013. Because of ineasures like these, not only is the AB 341 mandate of a 75 percent diversion rate by 2020 achievable for Redwood City, but this Plan proposes setting an 85 percent diversion rate goal for 2020. To help promote and meet that goal, the Plan proposes incrementally implementing a zero waste policy for municipal operations for marketing in advance of community programs and ordinances aimed at zero waste. Zero waste refers to an approach to minimizing solid waste through a variety of source reduction, reuse, recycling, and composting policies and programs. Actions would include, but are not limited to, developing an Environmentally Preferred Purchasing (EPP) policy, establishing a Zero Waste policy for municipal events, and requiring municipal recycling of construction and demolition debris. �.2 Community Measures As with the municipal measures, the measures for reducing communitywide emissions are divided into the same three categories corresponding to the major emissions sectors: energy, transportation and land use, and solid waste. The applicable General Plan goals are again included before the descriptions of the community measures. The City of Redwood City is likewise already in the process of implementing many of the community measures proposed below, and in some cases, this Plan simply recommends continuing implementation of existing measures. �.2.� Community Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy In the communitywide sector, as in the municipal sector, energy use in buildings and facilities provides the greatest opportunity for affordable emissions reductions. Because of the relative affordability of energy efficiency measures and the fact that the same principle of"reduce, then produce" applies in the community as in municipal operations, these measures focus on energy efficiency rather than renewable energy. Reducing energy use by implementing energy efficiency measures first means that renewable energy systems can be smaller and less expensive. This section identifies the related General Plan goal and describes the communitywide measures that will promote energy and water efficiency in both new and existing residential and commercial buildings. General Plan Goal (NR-4): Maximize energy conservation and renewable energy production to reduce consumption of natural resources and fossil fuels. 12 RESO.#15258 MUFF#205