Draft Summit Report Outline

Outline of follow up to the Detroit Environmental Summit, May 5, 2011.

Purposes:
· to provide an overview of the Summit;
· to summarize the attendees’ major environmental values and ideas for improving Detroit;
· to provide a series of policy recommendations for the City of Detroit; and
· to put forth a preliminary guide to how those recommendations may be implemented, including examples from other communities where similar measures are succeeding.

NOTE: Reference to the existing policy audits needed to be placed.




REPORT PHASE 1: SUMMARY

1. Overview of Event
a. Background on planning process & logistics
b. Attendance – who, how many, demographics, city employees, residents
c. Program speakers and breakouts

2. Values and Principles
a. Air, land, water, waste, transportation, agriculture, energy and buildings and the major values from each. Emphasis on common threads.

3. Big Ideas Examples highlighting community concerns and interconnections between various areas
a. How they interact with other environmental issues
b. How they interact with other city issues

REPORT PHASE 2: RECOMMENDATIONS

4. Policy Recommendations (DRAFT ideas below)
a. Establish Office of Sustainability to work with community members and city officials to further explore issues
b. Adopt sustainability standards on all new developments and renovations
c. Set up a green jobs fund to train and hire local workers to remediate soils, retrofit buildings, etc. etc.
d. Reform land and zoning policies so neighbors can purchase land in their area easily, deeds may be cleared, etc.
e. Explore exemption to the Right to Farm Act –work with other MI cities

5. Action Items in order to explore the policy recommendations
a. Study existing related policies
b. Explore funding opportunities
c. Pursue city commitment

ONGOING WORK:
6. Existing Work: a case studies of similar projects and policies in Detroit and in other cities, states, countries.
a. Who is involved, how it came about
b. What has worked? What hasn’t?
c. What are positive outcomes from the projects and policies?
d. How do those outcomes apply to Detroit or not?

7. Community Support: incorporate the Summit discussions and broader community responses into policy recommendations
a. Results from follow up street team surveys
b. Quotes from Summit questionnaires and video testimonials
c. “Validation process” to gauge community interest and support

8. Suggested Process and Next Steps
a. Community input, forums, etc. etc. etc.
b. Gauge the areas that are best supported