The County shall encourage battery energy storage systems as an option for optimizing the management of electricity generated by renewable resources.
Climate Action Plan
COS-9.1 Open Space Preservation
The County shall preserve natural open space resources through:
- the concentration of development in Urban Areas and Existing Communities;
- use of cluster or compact development techniques in discretionary development adjacent to natural open space resources;
- maintaining large lot sizes in agricultural areas, rural and open space areas;
- discouraging conversion of lands currently used for agricultural production or grazing;
- limiting development in areas constrained by natural hazards; and
- encouraging agricultural and ranching interests to maintain natural habitat in open space areas where the terrain or soil is not conducive to agricultural production or grazing.
COS-9.3 Open Space Preservation
The County shall place a high priority on preserving open space lands for recreation, habitat protection, wildlife movement, flood hazard management, public safety, water resource protection, and overall community benefit.
COS-10.1 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Reduction Strategy
The County shall maintain and refer to the General Plan and its integrated greenhouse gas (GHG) Reduction Strategy as the County’s comprehensive plan for reducing community-wide GHG emissions in the unincorporated County.
COS-10.2 Community Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Target for 2030
The County shall work toward achieving a community-wide GHG emissions reduction target of 41 percent below 2015 levels by 2030.
COS-10.3 Community Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Goals for 2040 and 2050
The County shall work toward achieving longer-term, post-2030 community-wide GHG emissions reduction goals, as follows:
- 61 percent below 2015 levels by 2040, and
- 80 percent below 2015 levels by 2050.