The Commission encourages all properties, developments, and proposed applications for site plan to consider the environmental impacts of development and to provide site designs and development that encourage energy-efficient designs, forms, and patterns of development, including but is not limited to:
(a) Passive solar energy techniques that maximize solar heat gain and minimize heat loss during the various seasons.
(b) Renewable energy sources for heating, cooling, and electrical.
(c) Site design techniques, such as, building orientation, street and lot layout, vegetation, natural and man-made topographical features, and solar access.
(Ord. 147-2018. Passed 7-2-18.)