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• Establish special Cool Zone overlay with the City to test GHG reduction strategies (reduce parking allocation, dedication of 50% of N-S streets as green streets with 1-way traffic, stormwater gardens, reconfigure streets with curb projections and green bus stops to filter water.

• Conduct audits to explore synergies between each business and building’s needs and waste products.

• Use the metro tunnel as a conduit for shared resources.

• Convert asphalt parking lots to open spaces seeded with native grasses, drought tolerant plants or food producing trees.

• Build vertical parking structures to free surface lots for parks. Use permeable surfaces to reduce water run-off.

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The following are the big picture ideas from the Eco Charette for discussion.

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Goal: District to act as single entity/community to take advantage of proximities and synergies

Short term strategies:

• Utilize BID to negotiate utility contract savings
• Utilize BID to negotiate reductions on retrofit materials
  • Light bulbs
  • Window film
  • Cool Roofs

Mid-term strategies:

• Audit district to determine existing synergies between current waste products and required resources.
• Connect building owners and business owners to trade/share resources and wastes.
  • BID personnel and property owners
  • BID would commission audit
• Building owners participate
• Establish zoning Special Use District
  • Requires property owners and city to work together

Long-term strategies:

• Implement Programs

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Goal: Reduce dependency on automobile; create stronger sense of community

Short term strategies:

• Create new streetscape plantings that include food producing trees
• Wilshire Corridor to include bus-only lanes
• Wilshire Corridor to include bike-only lanes

Mid-term strategies:

• Reinforce 6th and 8th streets as “East-West Regional” streets.
• Reconfigure 4th, 5th and 7th streets to create “Local Pedestrian/bicycle streets”.
• Dedicate 50% of N-S streets as green – community streets with one-way auto circulation and new stormwater gardens and parks and recreation opportunities
  

Goal: Increase local energy production (look at existing rooftop and parking lot opportunities)

Short term strategies:

• Utilize existing rooftops, south sides of buildings and parking lots for photovoltaic and wind-turbine systems
  

Goal: Increase local energy production (look at existing rooftop and parking lot opportunities)

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Mid-term strategies:

• Utilize existing methane sources (by drilling existing surface parking lots or new green streets), existing geothermal opportunities to produce local energy at district level.
• Utilize Metro tunnel under Wilshire to share excess power.

Long-term strategies:

• 100% on-site renewable energy
• Fuel cell,
• Geothermal
• Biogas generator

Goal: Reduce water consumption and stormwater run-off in district

Short-term strategies:

• Change existing landscaping for drought tolerant plantings
  • Building owners
• Change existing irrigation systems for high efficiency systems
  • Building owners with DWP rebates

Mid-term strategies

• Investigate and harvest ‘nuisance’ water (collect at base of buildings and reduce flow)
  • building owners and BID audit, sanitation/stormwater
• Reconfigure the existing street fabric to include curb projections and green bus stops (to filter water, add landscaping, etc).
• Plantings to include food producing trees and landscaping
• Planning, DOT and BID and council district to collaborate
• Reduce water run-off from existing parking lots with permeable paving and cisterns
  • property owners, Building and Safety