Tell the City: Climate Action Plan must Protect Trees

Urgent:Tell City Climate Action Plan must protect trees & limit densification
On July 1, 2022 after three years of preparation, the city released its draft Climate Action and Adaptation Plan (CAAP) and has given the public 30 days to comment with comments due July. Click for the plan. 

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To: Sacramento Planning Department, Mayor and City Council
The recently released preliminary Climate Action and Adaptation Plan (CAAP) must be revised to:

• Protect urban open space and trees that are critical in addressing climate action and ensuring livability in Sacramento because they sequester carbon, reduce energy use needed for cooling, provide street shade conducive to biking and walking, improve water quality, improve air quality and provide habitat.
• Restrict upzoning and densification projects, including in existing single family neighborhoods. Creating a right to densification in R-1 zones that allows for cutting down trees to build ADUs, duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes will both eliminate yard space that supports carbon sequestration and recharges ground water AND create holes in the city’s tree canopy, especially when such projects are clustered, creating urban heat islands.

Send your message by copying and pasting these emails:
GSandlund@cityofsacramento.org, JVenema@cityofsacramento.org, LAtalla@cityofsacramento.org, CAP@cityofsacramento.org, publiccomment@cityofSacramento.org, 
MayorSteinberg@cityofsacramento.org, aashby@cityofsacramento.org, sloloee@cityofsacramento.org,  jsharris@cityofsacramento.org, kvalenzuela@cityofsacramento.org, jschenirer@cityofsacramento.org, eguerra@cityofSacramento.org, rjennings@cityofsacramento.org, district8@cityofsacramento.org, 
Please cc. SaveSacramentoNeighborhoods@gmail.com

SSN is working with other groups that will be submitting comments on the Climate Action and Adaptation Plan. As these comments are finalized, they will be posted on the SSN website, click here.
For more actions including on pending State legislation, click here.