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Exhibit A Updates to the Austin Climate Equity Plan Staff Recommendation Transportation and Land Use Goal 1 (Pgs. 58-59): Goal: By 2030, 80% of new non-residential development is located within the city's Imagine Austin activity centers and corridors. Amend Strategy 4 to add under the header How we’ll get there: - Ensure all City policies for reduced parking, remote-work, and telecommuting align with the goals of the Comprehensive Plan and establish Austin as a leader for workplace and environmental policies to reduce single-occupancy vehicle trips. - City of Austin should develop remote work policies through a collaborative, all-employee process to develop clear goals and measured outcomes as a means of reducing parking demand at City facilities. In developing City policies, Austin should build on the successful Travis County telework policy. Transportation and Land Use Goal 3 (Pgs. 61-63): Goal: By 2030, 50% of trips in Austin are made using public transit, biking, walking, carpooling, or avoided altogether by working from home. Add: Strategy 7: Promote remote and flexible work policies Actively promote remote work, telework and flexible commute policies so as to maintain and encourage further reductions in single-occupancy vehicle trips. How we’ll get there: - Ensure that all policies for telework, remote work, or mandatory commuting that impact City of Austin employees are in full alignment with the goal of reducing single-occupancy vehicle trips in the region, and that any future changes to City policies contribute towards reaching the 50% mode-shift goal by 2030. - Whenever appropriate, encourage City partners, consultants, contractors, and stakeholders who engage with the City to adopt remote work policies or flexible commute policies that support the 50% mode-shift goal. - Wherever possible, encourage private employers and local businesses to consider adopting remote work and telework policies. Food and Production Consumption Goal 3 (Pg. 75): Goal: Aggressively pursue waste reduction, organics composting, and recycling to achieve a new zero-waste goal following adoption of the new Austin Resource Recovery Zero Waste Plan Amend to: Aggressively pursue waste reduction, organics composting, and recycling and maintain a per capita disposal rate of 4 pounds disposed per ARR-serviced household per day in the near-term and work to achieve 1 pound disposed per ARR-serviced household per day over time.