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Most localities, especially those in the San Joaquin Valley, can
reduce greenhouse gas emissions from new development by requiring
photo-voltaic panels on the roof of all commercieal, industrial and
residential buildings, both existing and being built. (Installation
is cheaper if done while a structure is being built.) Sunshine is
abundant in California, especially in the San Joaquin Valley. We
usually need to turn on our least efficient natural gas fired
plants to power our air conditioners in the afternoon; that is just
when we would be generating the most electricity from the sun.
Solar PV maintainance costs are low enough to allow home owners to
save more on their first several years of electric bills than they
pay to install solar. Government subsidies are available. (New
Paragraph)

Requiring LEED buildings, white roofs and water conservation
(pumping takes energy) are other ways local government can decrease
energy use and thus carbon dioxide production. We should outlaw
watering lawns.(New Paragraph)

Please make the land use target for local governments at least 14
MMT.

Thanks, Art