Sustainability
Current Projects
- Green Team Environmental Sustainabilty Plan (DRAFT)
- Greenhouse Gas Inventory
- Graywater Harvesting Ordinance
- Rainwater Harvesting and other landscape codes and water conservation requirements
- Energy Audit
- Environmentally Sensitive Lands Ordinance (new webpage coming soon)
- Energy Efficiency & Conservation Block Grant
- Town of Oro Valley Energy Efficiency Conservation Strategy
- Water Harvesting Engineering Memorandum
The Town of Oro Valley Vision:
To be a well planned community that uses its resources to balance the needs of today against the potential impacts to future generations. Oro Valley’s lifestyle is defined by the highest standards or environmental integrity, education, infrastructure, services, and public safety. It is a community of people working together to create the Town’s future with a government that is responsive to residents and ensures the long-term financial stability of the Town.
What is Sustainability?
A buzz word in an increasingly environmentally conscious world, sustainability has as many definitions as there are groups trying to define it, as it applies to development, communities, businesses, as well as agriculture.
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Yet what all these definitions have in common is the underlying message to promote the long term well-being of economic, social, and environmental health. Sustainability requires managing individual, community, national, and global scales of decision making in ways that ensure that our economy and society can continue to exist without destroying the natural environment on which we all depend. A view of community as three concentric circles: the economy exists within society, and both the economy and society exist within the environment. |
Oro Valley’s Goals for Sustainability
Sustainability is a journey—not a destination. It is a complex process requiring each generation's creativity and innovation to work toward a more sustainable planet.