Big Move: Sustainability

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What does Sustainability mean in Lewisville?

The original Lewisville 2025 planning process demonstrated that sustainability was a concept that was highly valued by people in Lewisville. This Big Move strove to create a community that is sustainable enough so it will still be desirable to people and businesses when Lewisville celebrates its 100th birthday.

This updated plan continues to use Lewisville’s definition of the term sustainability. For Lewisville, sustainability means that limited resources (such as land, water, energy, clean air, natural assets, and public funds) are used efficiently to provide a desirable quality of life and business climate that today’s residents and businesses need and want, without reducing Lewisville’s ability to provide that same quality of life and business climate so future generations of residents and businesses can succeed here too.

This Big Move recognizes that a holistic approach to sustainability will create a community that is resilient, desirable, and equitable both now and in the future. Sustainability seeks to increase the community’s access to green spaces, improve overall health and wellness, and preserve and protect the city’s environmental resources. Innovative approaches to these community-level problems will be crucial as Lewisville moves forward.

The foundation created by the Lewisville 2025 plan has laid the groundwork for many of the current sustainability initiatives in the city. These successes have included:

An electricity reduction of over 3,868,074 kWh since 2015
Resulting cost savings of over $1,303,141 since 2015
The addition of 14 hybrid vehicles and 10 electric vehicles to the City Fleet since 2015
Cost savings resulting from fuel usage reductions (since 2014) total $654,097
City has received three Bronze, one Silver, and most recently, a Gold Fleet Award from the North Central Texas Council of Governments Clean Cities for its contribution in sustainability, greener fleet, fuel reduction, and reduced carbon emissions.

As a result of the Lewisville 2025 plan’s focus on Sustainability, the City began work in 2019 to develop a detailed, short-term Sustainability Action Plan. The Action Plan establishes specific steps to take and sets targets to reach for eight important aspects of sustainability. The update of this Big Move has been coordinated with the creation of the new Sustainability Action Plan. The Action Priorities in this Big Move reflect the broad focus categories used to organize the Sustainability Action Plan. The Sustainability Action Plan provides much more information about the factors impacting each aspect of sustainability; it defines specific tasks to achieve a more sustainable Lewisville.

Work over the past five years to make Lewisville a more sustainable community has brought with it a new recognition – that actions related to many different parts of the community are contributing to increased sustainability. Action priorities identified in the other Big Moves and in the Strategic Moves will help achieve the goal of this Sustainability Big Move. In order to recognize these connections, a leaf symbol is used for Action Priorities in all other Big and Strategic Moves that support sustainability.

Link to Sustainability Action Plan