Climate and Energy Action Plan (CEAP)

APPENDIX A. OPEN HOU SE STATION RESPONSES Ashland Climate and Energy Action Plan: Baseline Public Input Summary Page | 13 Station 2. How Climate Change Affects Ashland WHICH CLIMATE IMPACT S TO THE ASHLAND COM MUNITY CONCERN YOU M OST? Total responses = 118 HOW DO YOU THINK THE CITY AND COMMUNITY S HOULD PREPARE FOR CL IMATE IMPACTS?  Make adaptation and mitigation central to every city department and codify our goals  Conserve our ecological diversity  Electric buses, solar government buildings, legally binding climate plan  Geoengineering the atmosphere is the primary criminal here  Don’t see how we can pick one over the other here. They each effect the other  Change the common ground cover (esp. for SOU* campus) to a water conserving plant - not grass. Watering grass is only aesthetic and waste  In migration when other part of the country realize Ashland has water growth  Make climate change a public health equity issue –poor and minorities more impacted  Became more of a REGIONAL player on these issues —fire, water management and heat  Focus on prevention stop doing what contributes to climate change  Get the Public Health Dept. (Jackson County) involved to protect low -income households (living in trailers)  We need to know the truth. Please research and establish what the white lines (over 24 today) in the sky. Is this good or bad for the climate or us ?  Water conservation -serious program to reduce our base demand including tracking water needs to fish and wildlife 0 510 15 20 25 30 35 40 45Temperature Increase and Extreme HeatHeavy Rainfall and Drought RiskWildfire RiskChanges to Snowpack and Water Availability Number of VotesWhich climate impact concerns you most?