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From YouTube: Beacon Planning Board Training 3-8-22
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Beacon Planning Board training session on "Heat Island Effects."
A
B
B
I've
been
really
interested
in
the
heat
island
effect
and
how
it
might
affect
our
future
and
climate
change.
For
those
not
familiar
with
the
phrase.
Cities
tend
to
be
much
warmer
than
the
surrounding
Countryside.
They
capture
heat,
they,
the
heat,
gets
bottled
up
between
buildings
and
reflected
off
asphalt
and
other
Imperial
services,
and
so
cities
tend
to
be
somewhere
between
two
and
eight
degrees
warmer
than
the
surrounding
Countryside,
and
that
leads
to
a
lot
of
problems
surprising
to
me
he
kills
more
Americans
each
year
than
all
other
weather
related
effects.
B
So
you
hear
about
tornadoes
and
hurricanes
and
all
the
rest
of
them,
but
he
kills
more
people
every
year
by
far
than-
and
nobody
has
an
absolute
number
on
how
many
people
it
actually
kills,
because
it
affects
the
heart
and
other
sorts
of
issues
that
might
end
up
on
a
death
certificate.
So
he'd
also
hotter
cities
lead
to
more
violence,
more
aggravation,
more
crime,
and
so,
as
climate
change
and
global
warming
gets
worse.
B
B
Cities
otherwise
have
a
lot
of
environmental
and
benefits?
In
fact,
Doug
kelbaugh
who's
written
about
these
issues,
and
particularly
climate
resiliency
in
cities,
calls
cities
the
LastPass
hope
of
our
civilization
that
that's
how
many
much
benefits
come
from
living
in
the
cities
from
a
climber's
perspective.
So
if
you
look
at
lower
greenhouse
gas
production,
much
more
efficient
energy
use
because
you
have
smaller,
closer
housing
units,
less
water
use,
more
Transportation,
affordability,
there's
more
options
about
how
to
get
around.
B
More
people
live
in
cities,
the
less
nature
is
impacted
in
biodiversity
and
Extinction
levels
of
other
species
and
the
whole
rest
of
it.
Agriculture
protection
there's
just
a
slew
of
reasons.
Why
it's?
If
you're
environmentally
conscious,
you
should
live
in
a
centralized
place,
but
he
rival
in
effect
what
Kell
ball
caused
the
pair.
B
B
How
do
you
mitigate
the
urban
need?
Highland
effect?
That's
the
question!
So
here's
a
a
map
that
I've
shown
before
I
think
that
shows
greenhouse
gases
by
location
by
ZIP
code.
Essentially,
and
so,
if
you
go
down
to
Manhattan,
you
know
28.830
metric
tons
per
year
per
household.
If
you
go
up
to
Beacon,
it's
44
and
a
half,
if
you
move
out
into
Fishkill
and
more
commutable
areas,
it's
up
in
the
80s,
so
Beacon
isn't
perfect.
It's
not
Manhattan
Green
Manhattan,
but
it
is
relatively
good
from
a
greenhouse
perspective.
B
The
one
on
the
top
is
like
from
one
of
the
hottest
days
ever
recorded,
110
degrees,
and
you
can
see
all
over
the
city.
This
is
Manhattan,
I
mean
New,
York,
City,
there's
hot
hot
spots
everywhere.
Generally
speaking,
you
get
hot
spots
between
the
major
Park
systems
and
the
water
waterfronts,
wherever
there
isn't
good
breezes
and
their
lower
scale.
B
Buildings
help
with
winds
and
and
the
exchange
of
temperature
and
that
sort
of
thing,
and
obviously
the
Park
Central
Park
and
Prospect
Park,
and
all
the
major
green
systems
in
the
city
lower
the
ambient
temperature
around
them
to
a
certain
degree,
but
even
Suburban
areas.
If
you
look
at
the
thermal
map
of
rooftops
they're
creating
their
own
heat,
it's
just
mitigated
by
a
lot
of
greenery
around
them,
more
more
Greenery
around
them.
So.
B
C
B
B
The
first
one
and
the
easiest
and
cheapest
one
actually
the
most
cost
effective
one-
is
to
paint
roof's,
wife,
White,
there's
a
measurement
called
libido
that
measures
the
amount
of
radiant
energy
that
reflects
off
the
surface
of
some
surface
and
heads
back
out
into
space
that
doesn't
create
heat
that
reflected
rays
of
the
Sun.
And
so,
if
you
just
paint
rooftops,
White
or
other
there's
now
other
versions
of
colors
that
are
just
as
reflective
as
pure
white,
because
white
gets
dirty
fast
and
you
lose
some
of
that.
B
So
there's
obviously
other
reasons
other
ways
of
dealing
with
this.
It
maybe
aren't
as
efficient
economic
land
in
terms
of
reflective
value,
but
have
other
values.
You
know
like
green
roofs,
so
green
rooms
absorb
more
heat,
but
they
through
the
photosynthesis
and
transfer
the
trans
piration
operation
process.
They
absorb
that
heat
and
use
it
for
other
things,
other
than
producing
heat
in
the
environment.
They
put
out
enough
Vapors
and
and
reflected
heat
that
they
are
much
better
than
your
standard
asphalt
roof.
B
Something
like
a
quarter
of
the
average
city
is
rooftops
and
something
about
a
third
of
of
a
city
or
more
can
be
pavement.
So
you
can
see
how
much,
if
you
have
black
asphalt
and
black
rooftops
you're,
just
asking
it
for
the
absorption
of
heat
and
that
radiated
heat
just
keeps
coming
up
and
coming
up.
B
C
B
C
A
B
A
B
B
D
Yeah
normal
roof
loads
and
a
roof
there.
There
are
systems
that
you
can
find,
but
they're
not
like
they're.
You
know
they're
sort
of
playing.
If
you
go
to
the
you,
can
the
Clark
Institute
down
by
right?
There's
a
green
roof
on
that,
and
it
is
also
Sedum
and
it's
it's
meant
to
absorb
the
water.
There's
a
lot
of
practical
water
retention
aspects
to
it
that
are
and
as
well
as
the
solar
aspects.
C
D
In
New
York
City,
you
have
to
use
a
green
roof
or
a
Blue
Roof,
which
is
a
water
retention
system
or
a
some
sort
of
planted,
or
there
are
a
couple
different
options,
but
you
have
to
in
the
Solar
it's
another
option
and
that
this
comes
up
to
me
exactly
what
it
is.
But
yeah
that's
a
requirement.
They
have.
A
B
C
C
We
wanted
to
find
criteria
like,
let's
say
an
applicant
said:
well
we're
interested
in
doing
a
Green
Roof
Inn
ex
you
know
as
a
as
part
of
a
you
know,
an
application.
Could
we
find
criteria
to
say
well,
we
would
consider
x,
y
and
z,
you
know
a
fully
functioning
green
roof
and
so
that
you
know,
if
you're,
if
you're,
offering
that
it's
not
just
a
couple
of
Planters
it's
these
things.
You
know
that
we
can
then
verify
or
you
know,
review
via
design
and
approve.
B
B
B
So
that's
the
first
strategy
is
to
deal
with
roofs.
The
second
one
is
to
plant
trees
everywhere
and
plant
vegetation
everywhere.
Just
make
sure
that
you
don't
have
exposed
pavement
for
the
most
part,
and
so
a
lot
of
cities
have
set
tree
cover,
goals
and
40
seems
to
be
the
you
know,
sort
of
aspiration.
If,
if
you
measure
the
tree
cover
by
Aerials,
you
get
40
tree
cover.
A
B
B
But
if
you
go
to
site
certain
section
of
Main
Streets,
you
may
have
trees
along
the
street,
but
they're
providing
almost
no
shade
or
very
little
shade.
Now,
maybe
over
time,
they'll
grow
up,
but
a
lot
of
the
species
that
have
been
planted
in
smaller
species
that
work
with
sidewalks
better
but
don't
necessarily
provide
abundant
shade
and
the
idea
I
think,
is
to
create
canopy
trees
as
much
as
possible
so
that
you
don't
have
exposed
pavement
and
there's
other
places
like
here
around
Fountain
Square,
where
you
can't
see
a
tree
in
sight.
B
C
B
Hudson
River
on
the
west,
which
gives
you
that
sort
of
Breeze
from
the
ocean
to
the
mountains
that
tends
to
create
it
and
even
a
block
system
might
be
created.
I
have
no
idea
if
this
is
why
they
thought
about
it
when
they
set
out
the
the
block
system
in
Beacon,
but
it
runs
from
west
to
east
on
a
bit
of
us
from
Northwest
and
north
south
east,
which
is
the
prevailing
wind
pattern
coming
off
the
river
So.
In
theory,
the
winds
tend
to
blow
down
the
streets
rather
than
being
blocked
by
the
buildings.
B
B
But
if
you
look
at
it,
you
know
the
obviously
you
can
see
the
tree
cover
is
intermittent
at
best
in
the
in
the
city
center,
so
the
idea
would
be
to
take
that
and
within
the
city,
grow
a
40
and
have
that
as
a
goal
put
a
certain
amount
of
budget
into
it
each
year
to
plant
trees
to
save
existing
trees
to
make
them
grow
better
to
care
for
them.
So
they
don't
end
up
dying
in
five
or
ten
years,
which
a
lot
of
Street
trees
do
is.
C
B
B
So
in
some
places,
they've
started
to
put
the
trees
in
the
street
in
the
street.
So
instead
of
having
Street
trees,
you
have
trees
in
the
street
and
it
it
breaks
up
the
parking
Lane
acts
as
a
better
calming
traffic
calming
element
it's
in
front
of
the
wires
rather
than
under
the
wires.
So
you
can
plant
bigger
species
more
canopy
that
can
flow
over
the
street
better
because
it
just
trimmed
on
the
back
side
rather
than
across
the
top,
which
kills
a
tree
in
the
long
run,
and
there
are
precedents
for
this.
B
You
know
I.
If
you
go
down
to
Charleston,
you
see
a
lot
of
trees
in
the
street
down
in
the
lower
end
of
Charleston.
I
have
a
couple
examples
from
Reinbeck
in
which,
even
today,
there's
a
tree
in
the
street
on
one
of
the
side
streets.
They
just
cut
this
one
down,
unfortunately,
but
historically,
that
you
know
the
trees
used
to
be
in
the
streets.
B
So
I'm
not
saying
that
this
is
going
to
work
on
Main
Street
and
you
have
sewer
and
water
pipes
to
deal
with
that's
sort
of
the
main
constraint
and
snow
plows
I'm
sure
that
it
without
always
come
up
when
you
deal
with
this.
But
even
you
know
right
now
they
put
the
new
bump
outs
and
curb
extensions
on
Main
Street.
That
makes
it
more
difficult
to
plow,
so
they
have
to
be
a
little
careful,
so
you
can
work
around
trees
as
well.
B
A
B
A
B
A
B
A
B
B
The
way
it
is
now
which
has
almost
nothing
in
terms
of
shade
and
has
a
lot
of
other
issues,
and
so
the
Main
Street
access
committee
retrofitted
this
and
you
ended
up
with
12,
more
parking
spaces
and
dozens
of
more
trees
and
trees,
and
you
can't
even
provide
what
they
call
tree
diamonds
in
in
the
corners
of
parking
spaces.
So
you
create
a
park
a
tree
every
four
day,
six
spaces
without
affecting
the
parking
count,
because
the
the
they
act
as
a
curb
stop.
B
D
One
of
the
things
that
I've
noticed
atoms
when
they
built
the
Adams
parking
lot
for
the
new
atoms
up
down
there
on
90
around
9..
They
had
swales
in
the
medians
between
the
parking
rather
than
having
stops
and
a
raised
area
like
a
curb
area.
They
actually
depressed
it
so
that
all
the
water
went
into
these
long,
gravel
filled,
deep,
gravel
filled,
they're.
Obviously,
water
infiltration
areas,
and
they
looked
really
nice
they're
safe.
Because
you
don't
you
can't,
there's
nothing
to
damage
your
car
against
right
and
it
seemed
dirt
cheap
and
attractive.
D
So
I
was
wondering
if
there
are
there's
something
like
things
like
that:
they're,
like
best
practices
for
both
environmental.
You
know
water
mitigation
and
groundwater
Improvement.
That
sort
of
thing
that
you
can
do
in
these
very
large.
We
only
have
a
few
of
these
really
large
parking
areas,
but
they're
the
sort
of
thing
that
generate
a
lot
of
rain
water
right
and
that's
pollution,
all
the
all
the
bits
that
are
coming
off
your
car
get
into
the
creek
and
into
the
Hudson,
and
you
know
we
could
use
it
as
a
as
an
example.
B
And
we're
proud
reminder
that
there
was
two
other
things
and
I
wasn't
only
going
to
mention.
I
didn't
have
any
slides
on
them
in
terms
of
addressing
it:
fewer
cars,
fewer
car
trips,
so
cities
are
good
at
that,
providing
a
Transit
and
other
options,
because
that
creates
a
lot
of
waste
Heat
and
the
last
one
was
passed
passive,
Energy
System,
so
you
don't
need
as
much
air
conditioning.
B
So
you
have
natural
flow
of
as
opposed
to
relying
on
closed
windows
and
air
conditioning
all
the
time,
because
that
just
recycles
Heats
into
the
environment.
So
those
are
the
four
sort
of
techniques
we
have
to
deal
with
in
order
to
combat
this,
and
you
can,
through
a
combination
of
things,
bring
that
temperature
down
where
it's
equivalent
with
the
rural
area.