CONSERVATION PROGRAMS

In recent months, City departments were asked to evaluate their business operations in the context of efficiencies and preserving the environment.  Every department responded with solutions.  Here are just a few conservation efforts we are implementing citywide. 

• We use solar powered school speed limit signs at City schools.

• Orlando Utilities Commission uses a small fleet of electric cars, which employees drive between OUC facilities.

• To preserve Florida’s delicate water balance, we use reclaimed water to irrigate everything from citrus groves to golf courses to foliage nurseries.

• Our Street Tree Trust Fund and Trees to Good Homes programs increase our urban forest and improve air quality and wildlife habitat.

• A future cornerstone park at Baldwin Park will be developed using recycled material from the old Naval Training Center.

• As part of our decentralization of police operations, the new Northwest Community Policing Office puts police in neighborhoods to reduce response times, thereby emitting less pollution.

• Leu Gardens has developed the “Right Plants in the Right Places” program to determine which plants are appropriate for the Florida environment.  This program also helps reduce the need for pesticides on City properties by approximately 75 percent.