If I was to plan out an environmentally sustainable city I would put heavy emphasis on recycling and sustainable forms of transportation. My city would regulate recycling practices and enforce strict fees for failure to properly recycle. I would also intertwine the economy to waste management by giving tax reductions if local businesses support the ban of unnecessary packaging like plastic and styrofoam. I will create road laws that help ensure the safety and quality of biking around my city, giving my citizens the sustainable benefits of biking such as lowering greenhouse gas emissions and noise pollution. The city would be somewhat similar to San Francisco, being near the ocean and in a northern climate. I would like to live in this environmentally sustainable city.

Benefits of biking:
http://www.walkandrollpeel.ca/cycling/benefits.htm

Information on how San Francisco handles waste:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/13/how-san … ement.html

I definitely agree with everything you said. However, I would add heavy enforcement on composting. While recycling is better than putting something in a landfill, it still uses a lot of energy, water, and labor to do. Compost is a simpler way to reduce waste in landfills and is simpler. On a smaller scale, it can be done at home fairly easily and I would have it be taught at school so kids know how to do it from a young age. Additionally, I would have the city grow perishable fruits and vegetables, as well as other things, locally to eliminate all the fuel that goes into transporting them from farms that are far away. There is typically a lot of wasted space in cities such as on rooftops. I would use this space to plant gardens that local people could run as a business as a way to create more jobs as well as have some rooftop community gardens where people with a lower income could go to have access to healthy foods.

Source: https://ensia.com/notable/sustainable-cities/