GFL-Solid Waste Engineering Services SOQ

Environmental Justice

Key Elements to a Successful Environmental Review

1. Transparent and equitable process that meaningfully incorporates a diversity of perspectives. „ Taking time to build trust and common understanding among internal stakeholder groups including representatives from marginalized communities, advocacy organizations, city, county, and other relevant agencies. „ Helping the public and stakeholders navigate contentious issues and arrive at implementable solutions. „ Ensuring the most vulnerable communities have a voice in

2. Reliable understanding of codes, ordinances and their real and potential disparate impacts, now and into the future. „ Analyzing multiple viewpoints including our team’s range of expertise in environmental justice, engineering, science, resilience, economics, planning, policies and law. „ Leveraging the team’s interdisciplinary expertise and deep knowledge of local and regional planning contexts, codes and ordinances, and climate, hazard, social, and economic data to efficiently assess, synthesize, and translate impacts to support decision making. „ Translating science into plain language that stakeholders and the public can understand

3. Prioritized set of long-term strategies combined with practical and implementable near-term actions. „ Providing assessments of disparities or inequities identified and making recommendations for addressing them including leveraging best practices locally, regionally and nationally, to identify examples of transformative and implementable projects, programs, and changes to policy and regulations. „ Identifying clear pathways for funding and implementing recommendations as well as institutionalizing resilience for the long-term. „ Collaborating with other local entities to ensure proposed strategies align with all ongoing and planned initiatives and that all are committed to the encouragement and enforcement of proposed code and ordinance changes.

the process, incorporating local knowledge into assessments and considering the potential social benefits of proposed policies, projects, and programs.

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