San Francisco Green Roof Legislation

Earlier this year san francisco passed a bylaw that required new developments to include solar roofs.

San francisco green roof legislation. San francisco green roofs and solar bylaw. New york now joins cities like denver san francisco toronto and portland oregon in making green roofs a requirement he added. Following in the footsteps of toronto san francisco denver and portland oregon all new residential and commercial buildings in the city must top roofs with either plants solar panels mini wind turbines or a combination of all three. Through direct lobbying efforts from green roofs for healthy cities members and other partners new york city will quickly become a leader in reducing the effects of climate change from its buildings.

San francisco s legislation came out of work started in 2013 by the san francisco bay area planning and urban research association s green roof task force. So san francisco joins the growing group of cities with such bylaws in north america. San francisco supervisor scott wiener introduced legislation that builds on the city s existing solar roof mandate and the san francisco planning commission unanimously approved it. Legislation will add green roofs also known as living roofs as an option to meet existing solar mandate requirement making san francisco the first city in the country with a comprehensive solar.

This legislation arrives as a direct result of the international green roof conference cities alive which san francisco co hosted in the fall of 2013 and the concurrent spur issued policy recommendations in greener and better roofs. In addition to this ground breaking law this week green roofs were also added as an alternative. City to mandate solar and living roofs on most new construction with the passage of this legislation between 15 and 30 of roof space on most new construction projects will incorporate solar living roofs or a combination of both. A roadmap for san francisco said jeff joslin deputy director of the san francisco planning department.

A june 2016 study by the consulting firm arup group that looked at the costs and benefits of green roofs in san francisco concluded that owners tend to bear all costs for living roofs even. The new legislation will allow owners and developers the option of building 30 of roof space as green roofs or a combination of green roofs and solar panels.