Your Voice Matters: Shape Santa Monica's Green Future Today!

Introduction:

Exciting changes are on the horizon for Santa Monica, and we need your input to guide them! The City is embarking on a bold journey towards carbon neutrality, aiming to slash emissions and foster a greener future. But with these ambitious goals come significant decisions that could impact you as a property owner. Here's your chance to influence how we transition to cleaner, more sustainable energy practices.

Santa Monica Property Owners Urged to Take City Survey on Plans to Go Green

Please Let Your Opinions Be Known: Take the “Existing Building Reach Code Survey”

The City of Santa Monica is seeking to lower carbon emissions to attain City Council imposed goals of 80% emissions reductions by the year 2030 and carbon neutrality by the year 2050 or sooner. PROPERTY OWNERS BEWARE, THIS TRANSITION TO CARBON NEUTRALITY AND LOWERING OF EMISSIONS WILL COST YOU MONEY, SO LET THE CITY KNOW YOUR OPINIONS. This survey is intended for Santa Monica residents and property owners of buildings under 20,000 square feet.

Survey Link: Green Survey.

The City has outlined some of its “key strategies” to include decarbonizing buildings though clean energy, energy efficiency, and electrifying (eliminating all gas appliances) at both new and existing buildings. The survey is seeking both resident and property-owner opinions on policy that will lead to the transition of small, existing buildings (under 20,000 square feet) away from fossil fuel-powered appliances. (Larger buildings are to be addressed through a separate policy called “Building Performance Standards,” which is currently undergoing a separate stakeholder engagement process.)

The survey is designed to help the City understand community priorities and barriers to help develop an Existing Building Reach Code policy.

Santa Monica receives 100% renewable energy from Clean Power Alliance, so switching to electric equipment or “electrifying” is, in the City’s view, an effective way to reduce greenhouse gases associated with building operations irrespective of the likely high cost of transitioning to electric appliances. The City claims that jurisdictions statewide are actively working to develop equitable approaches to support local property owners in this transition…we’ll see about that!

Here's the link to take the survey: Green Survey.