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The City of Bloomington recognizes sustainability as a key component of nurturing Bloomington's long-term environmental, economic and social integrity. The City's Unified Development Ordinance offers developers certain bonuses and allowances for buildings including features that help meet particular sustainability goals. These benefits are for developers, not individual residents. For a full description of the incentives, see section 20.05.049 of Bloomington's Unified Development Ordinance.
Sustainability Goals:
Energy and resource efficiency
Features that meet the energy and resource efficiency goal include green roofs, improved building performance rating, the use of non-polluting and/or renewable on-site energy sources, recycling and/or salvaging at least 50 percent of non-hazardous construction and demolition debris, or utilizing building materials and products sourced within 500 miles.
Landscape and site design
Qualifying designs include the use of at least 25 percent permeable pavement, utilization of natural vegetation and other techniques to convey and filter storm water, employ systems to recycle at least 50 percent of greywaterand storm water, retention of 90 percent of area tree canopy, and/or conservation of land with a slope of 12 percent or greater.
Public policy
Public policy commitments include incorporating mixed use development, providing 100 percent of the required long-term bicycle parking spaces, decreasing automobile parking while increasing bicycle parking, and providing subsidized Bloomington Transit passes or a private van or shuttle.
Public Transportation
Qualifying projects are located near a transit stop, activity center, downtown, public school or park, or multiuse trail.
Incentives are based on a three three-tiered, with bonuses accorded to the number of sustainable practices included in the projects.
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