The DC Office of Planning is launching a Ward 3 Neighborhood Sustainability Indicators Pilot Project (the Sustainability Project). Ward3Vision is a community-based smart growth organization which embraces sustainability as part of its core mission and guiding principles. To begin our participation in this community dialogue and as a means of generating conversations around the ways in which our community can address “sustainability,” we have prepared this working paper. Among our goals are to:
- Raise awareness about issues of sustainability
- Provide initial suggestions as to ways in which our community might participate in sustainability
- Identify ways in which general qualities surrounding sustainability can be turned into measurable action items, as the initiative moves from planning to implementation