The plan also includes recommendations to use educational campaigns, outreach, awards, and recognitions to improve energy efficiency through individual actions, with a primary focus on builders and businesses.
Paul, Minnesota, has done. Nashville could also benefit from incorporating green infrastructure solutions—including trees, rain gardens, parkland, native flora, and pervious pavements—throughout the city. This infrastructure cools hot streets and roofs, which radiate extra heat on hot days and absorb carbon pollution.
Meeting this goal would not only alleviate heat islands, but it also would improve air quality, especially for communities with disproportionately high levels of air pollution. Impoverished communities in Nashville have worse air quality than communities above the poverty line.
And, disconcertingly, communities of color above and below the poverty line experience more air pollution than white communities. Cleaner air would reduce public health risks, such as asthma, heart disease, and heat stroke that are exacerbated by rising temperatures.
As heavy downpours increase, green infrastructure can play an important role in reducing flood risks in heavily developed areas near streams and in cleaning water as it flows to the Cumberland River. After the flood, analysis by local and federal planners showed the great extent to which houses were located within the floodplain.
Green infrastructure can also meet critical needs specific to low-income communities, such as hunger and nutrition. As of , more than 17 percent of Davidson County residents do not have access to affordable, healthy food. After the flood, with assistance from the federal government, Nashville used a buyout program to purchase land that had repeatedly flooded from homeowners who volunteered to find new housing in other communities.
While food deserts are an issue in the metro area, access to land that can be converted to community gardens in those areas can be difficult to come by. By championing urban agriculture strategies, such as the conversion of buyouts and green spaces into community gardens, the metro government can better meet climate, flood mitigation, public safety, and food production goals outlined in Livable Nashville. Nashville should scale up urban gardening operations and work closely with community groups and residents to assist in capacity building to help make new and expanded farming operations and green infrastructure installations a long-term success.
For example, it recommends expanding access to public transportation and improving the safety of pedestrian and bicycle pathways. Through these strategies, officials aim to increase the number of residents who commute by transit, walking, and biking to 7 percent of the population by and to 30 percent by Not only will these mobility strategies improve access to job opportunities and services as well as cut down on commuting time, but they will also provide residents with alternative means to get to safety in the event of extreme weather.
According to a U. Improving and expanding public transportation options would be especially beneficial for low-income communities and communities of color. The living wage shown is the hourly rate that an individual in a household must earn to support his or herself and their family. The assumption is the sole provider is working full-time hours per year. The tool provides information for individuals, and households with one or two working adults and zero to three children.
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