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Recommendation GB3: Provide incentives that encourage green design, construction, and deconstruction and begin removing disincentives

Provide incentives that encourage green design, construction, and deconstruction practices. Research, assess and begin instituting incentives that will increase green building demand and participation. Also, identify and begin to remove regulatory barriers and other disincentives that serve to discourage green building practices. Encourage the lending industry to embrace green building. Additional assessment is needed to develop specific incentives that will be highly effective in expanding green building practices. This will involve considering several different types of incentives, including various economic incentives as well as permitting and regulatory incentives. It is important to recognize that different areas and circumstances call for different types of incentives to be offered.

Once regulatory and other barriers are clearly identified, a strategy for building support to remove the ones that most significantly discourage green building practices will be developed. The new provisions should encourage, rather than simply accommodate, green building practices. Provisions that prohibit – or seem to prohibit – green building practices may be found in reviews of the State Building Code, local building codes and other applicable state regulations, specifically including those related to land use, zoning, stormwater management, water resources and shoreline protection.

Related Milestone

Some economic incentives are in place and in use, and government has removed at least one major regulatory barrier to green building.

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