Section 20. Office of long-term planning and sustainability

a. The mayor
  shall establish an office of long-term planning and sustainability. Such
  office may, but need not, be established in the executive office of  the
  mayor  and  may  be established as a separate office or within any other
  office of the mayor or within  any  department  the  head  of  which  is
  appointed  by  the  mayor. Such office shall be headed by a director who
  shall be appointed by the mayor or by the head of such  department.  For
  the purposes of this section only, "director" shall mean the director of
  long-term planning and sustainability.
    b.  Powers  and duties. The director shall have the power and the duty
  to:
    1. develop and coordinate the implementation of policies, programs and
  actions to meet the long-term needs of the city,  with  respect  to  its
  infrastructure,   environment   and   overall  sustainability  citywide,
  including but not limited to the  categories  of  housing,  open  space,
  brownfields,  transportation,  water  quality  and  infrastructure,  air
  quality, energy,  and  climate  change;  and  regarding  city  agencies,
  businesses, institutions and the public;
    2.  develop  measurable sustainability indicators, which shall be used
  to assess the city's progress in achieving sustainability citywide; and
    3. take actions to increase public awareness and  education  regarding
  sustainability and sustainable practices.
    c. Sustainability indicators. No later than December thirty-first, two
  thousand  eight  and  annually thereafter, the director shall identify a
  set of indicators to assess and track the overall sustainability of  the
  city  with  respect  to the categories established pursuant to paragraph
  one of subdivision b of  this  section  and  any  additional  categories
  established by the director, and prepare and make public a report on the
  city's  performance with respect to those indicators. Such report may be
  prepared and presented in conjunction with the mayor's management report
  required pursuant to section twelve of this chapter.  The  report  shall
  include, at a minimum:
    1.  the  city's  progress  in achieving sustainability citywide, which
  shall be based  in  part  on  the  sustainability  indicators  developed
  pursuant to paragraph two of subdivision b of this section; and
    2.  any new or revised indicators that the director has identified and
  used or will identify and use to assess the city's progress in achieving
  sustainability citywide, including, where an indicator has been or  will
  be revised or deleted, the reason for such revision or deletion.
    d.  Population  projections.  No  later  than April twenty-second, two
  thousand ten, and every four years thereafter, the  department  of  city
  planning   shall  release  or  approve  and  make  public  a  population
  projection for the city that covers a  period  of  at  least  twenty-one
  years, with intermediate projections at no less than ten year intervals.
  Where   feasible,   such   projections   shall  include  geographic  and
  demographic indicators.
    e. Long-term sustainability plan. 1. The director  shall  develop  and
  coordinate    the   implementation   of   a   comprehensive,   long-term
  sustainability plan for the city. Such plan shall include, at a minimum:
    i.  an  identification  and  analysis  of   long-term   planning   and
  sustainability issues associated with, but not limited to, housing, open
  space,  brownfields,  transportation,  water quality and infrastructure,
  air quality, energy, and climate change; and
    ii. goals  associated  with  each  category  established  pursuant  to
  paragraph  one  of  subdivision  b  of  this  section and any additional
  categories established by the director, and a list of policies, programs
  and actions that the city will seek to implement or undertake to achieve
  each goal by no later than April twenty-second, two thousand thirty.

    2. No later than April twenty-second,  two  thousand  eleven,  and  no
  later  than  every four years thereafter, the director shall develop and
  submit to the mayor and the speaker  of  the  city  council  an  updated
  long-term  sustainability plan, setting forth goals associated with each
  category  established pursuant to paragraph one of subdivision b of this
  section and any additional categories established by the director, and a
  list of policies, programs and  actions  that  the  city  will  seek  to
  implement  or  undertake  to  achieve  each goal by no later than twenty
  years from the date each such updated long-term sustainability  plan  is
  submitted.  Such  updated  plan  shall  take into account the population
  projections required pursuant to  subdivision  d  of  this  section.  An
  updated  plan  shall include, for each four-year period beginning on the
  date an updated plan is submitted to the mayor and the  speaker  of  the
  city  council,  implementation  milestones  for each policy, program and
  action contained in such plan. An  updated  plan  shall  report  on  the
  status  of the milestones contained in the immediately preceding updated
  plan. Where any categories, goals, policies, programs  or  actions  have
  been  revised in, added to or deleted from an updated plan, or where any
  milestone has been revised in or deleted from an updated plan, the  plan
  shall  include  the  reason for such addition, revision or deletion. The
  director shall seek public input  regarding  an  updated  plan  and  its
  implementation  before  developing  and submitting such plan pursuant to
  this paragraph.  The director shall coordinate the implementation of  an
  updated long-term sustainability plan.
    f.  Review  and  reporting.  1. No later than April twenty-second, two
  thousand nine, and no later than every April  twenty-second  thereafter,
  the  director  shall  prepare and submit to the mayor and the speaker of
  the  city  council  a  report  on  the  city's  long-term  planning  and
  sustainability  efforts.  In  those  years  when  an  updated  long-term
  sustainability  plan  is  submitted  pursuant  to   paragraph   two   of
  subdivision  e of this section, such report may be incorporated into the
  updated long-term sustainability plan. The report shall  include,  at  a
  minimum:
    i.  the  city's  progress  made  to  implement  or undertake policies,
  programs and actions included in  the  sustainability  plan  or  updated
  sustainability plan required by subdivision e of this section, since the
  submission of the most recent plan or updated plan or report required by
  this paragraph; and
    ii.  any  revisions  to  policies, programs or actions in the previous
  long-term sustainability plan, including the reason for such revision.
    g. There shall be  a  sustainability  advisory  board  whose  members,
  including,   at   a   minimum,   representatives   from   environmental,
  environmental justice, planning, labor, business and  academic  sectors,
  shall  be  appointed by the mayor. The advisory board shall also include
  the speaker of the city council or a designee and the chairperson of the
  council  committee  on  environmental  protection  or  a  designee.  The
  advisory  board  shall  meet,  at  a  minimum,  twice per year and shall
  provide  advice  and  recommendations  to  the  director  regarding  the
  provisions of this section.
    h.  The  director  shall  post  on  the city's website, a copy of each
  sustainability plan required by subdivision e of this section,  and  all
  reports  prepared  pursuant  to  this  section, within ten days of their
  completion.