The City of Agoura Hills Climate Action and Adaptation Plan (CAAP) provides the foundation on how the City will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change.

Michael Hendrix worked with the City of Agoura Hills to develop its Climate Action and Adaptation Plan (CAAP). Two of the phases of the project have been completed. Phase 1 involved community and stakeholder outreach to understand community priorities for a successful CAAP; development of the City baseline GHG inventory for the year 2018 which included a city-wide vehicle miles traveled (VMT) analysis, and projections into 2020, 2030, and 2045; target setting and GHG reduction measures; and adaptation strategy development. One of the key components of this project is to estimate the GHG emissions associated with different economic sectors, including the transportation sector for the years 2018, 2020, and 2030. Michael worked closely with the City’s traffic engineers to obtain the VMT data derived using the SCAG Regional Transportation Demand Model. The VMT data was used to estimate the GHG emissions associated with transportation. In addition, Michael Hendrix assisted the City with developing Transportation Demand Management (TDM) strategies that could be adopted to reduce GHG emissions through VMT reductions. Reductions in VMT related to telecommuting using broadband by businesses within the City were calculated and constitute the largest VMT reduction related to traffic demand management(TDM). Michael Hendrix also provided downscaled global climate modeling at a city level to forecast climate change impacts within the City and develop adaption measures to increase the resiliency of the City. Phase 2 of the project was CEQA compliance of the CAAP using an Initial Study and Negative Declaration which was completed in April 2022. Phase 3 of the project will be implementation of the CAAP including an automated tracking and reporting system and is scheduled to begin in the summer of 2022.