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Work Plan & Timeline In an effort to reduce any confusion in the development community with the advent of CALGreen and its interface with the City's existing green building requirements, staff is proposing an adoption of CALGreen which will have local amendments that harmonize with Pleasanton's existing Green Building ordinance. The goal is to create uniformity with the State's standards and forms, while preserving Pleasanton's existing green building provisions. Since CALGreen contains its own checklists, staff is working to ensure that existing City requirements for LEEDTM and Build It Green TM points are still achieved for "Covered Projects ", but require builders to adhere only to the checklist that is modeled after the CALGreen measures (rather than multiple checklists and point sheets). Based on staffs initial analysis and input from stakeholders (Exhibit B), staff has prepared the Draft Ordinance (Exhibit A). Staffs goal is to present the proposed ordinance to the City Council, and have CALGreen adopted with local amendments, as well as the other related municipal code amendments, prior to the state -wide effective date for CALGreen (January 1, 2011). Additional information regarding the work plan for this process is in Exhibit E. IV. ANALYSIS Based on research and internal discussions, staff has formulated an initial recommendation for adoption of CALGreen with local amendments, to maintain the City's existing green building requirements, construction and demolition debris mandates, and other policies of the General Plan. Additional background information regarding CALGreen is provided in Exhibit E. The proposed amendment conforms to the General Plan (see Exhibit F for more information). The following is a summary of Exhibit A (Draft Ordinance): 1. Adopt CALGreen Tier 1 for those "Covered Projects" currently subject to the Pleasanton Green Building Ordinance. This would result in the CALGreen "voluntary" Tier 1 measures' becoming required measures for such "Covered Projects ", which recommendation is based on staff research that Tier 1 is substantially similar to the points required by Pleasanton's current green building standard, and new policies in the General Plan ' For example, as discussed above, CALGreen's basic requirements are that beginning July 1, 2011, baseline water usage be reduced by 20 %. To achieve the Tier 1 level for indoor water use in a new residence, the kitchen sink faucet cannot flow more than 1.5 gallons per minute. Such water use reduction earns a "point" under the Build It Green "' system currently in effect, and similarly meets the CALGreen Tier I recommendation. PRZ -55, Green Building Planning Commission Page -4-