...Have public meetings — lots of ’em. One thing that’s clearly changed in Greensburg is the whole approach to public meetings. There are more of them and more people seem to attend since the storm. That’s probably because, in the months following the tornado, FEMA and local stakeholders held a bunch of meetings to plan the town’s recovery. At the first one I attended in February 2008, more than 200 people showed up, many of them from nearby FEMAville.
It was in these meetings that residents discussed and ultimately ratified — together — the bold decision to “go green.” It is Greensburg city code today that any public building constructed in city limits must be built to LEED Platinum specifications. And many locals spent a little extra to build their homes back with features that went well beyond the energy savings of a standard new housing unit.
Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/05/24/2899089/what-joplin-can-learn-from-greensburg.html#ixzz1Ns50HhD7
No comments:
Post a Comment