Source: Tammy Grubb, NEWS & OBSERVER, 4/25/19


Having clear climate-change goals is important if the town is going to get more energy-efficient homes and buildings, Town Council members say. The challenge, member Rachel Schaevitz said Wednesday night, is providing the flexibility to ensure developers meet the goals no matter what technology their buildings use. “You can’t say, well, I can’t do the solar [panels] because there’s trees, and so I guess I don’t have to anything,” Schaevitz said, “because what I really want is to see that all new development is improving on our carbon reduction, beyond what we established more than 10 years ago.”

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