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# Group will help make Santa Monica greener
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/group-will-help-make-santa-monica-greener/
- Published: 2003-11-04T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T03:09:41.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Government & Politics, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

The City Council last week established an 11-member task force to advise it on a program designed to keep Santa Monica environmentally friendly.

Called the “Sustainability Advisory Task Force,” the team will advise the City Council for five years regarding policies, actions and strategies for creating a sustainable city — or one that uses renewable energy sources and has a minimal negative impact on the environment.

The task force will be comprised of council-appointed members with areas of expert-ise in planning and zoning, housing, recreation and parks, social services, environmental policy, health care and education. The members will represent business, labor and neighborhood groups.

By 2008, the “Sustainable City Plan,” which was first adopted in 1994 and updated in February of 2003, should be fully incorporated and running smoothly, officials say.

The plan was developed with the assistance of the “Sustainable City Working Group,” including elected and appointed officials, City Hall staffers and representatives of neighborhood organizations, schools, business community and other groups.

The process resulted in a comprehensive update of the 1994 Sustainable City Program and expanded the focus of the program beyond the four original goals of resource conservation, environmental and public health, transportation and community, and economic development to include four new areas. Those are: Housing, economic development, open space and land use, community education and civic participation, and human dignity.

Since the inception of the Sustainable City Program in 1994, the Task Force on the Environment has served as the principle advisory body to the City Council on sustain-ability issues.

In recognition of the expansion of the SCP beyond the original four goals, the Task Force on the Environment and the Sustainable City Working Group recommended the formation of an advisory group with broad representation in the community and expert-ise in the new goals to provide leadership and guidance.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on November 4, 2003.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/110403.pdf?ref=smdp.com)