OUR PLANS

Shelby County Solid Waste Management Plan

The Solid Waste Management Plan will serve as a blueprint of best practices and strategies for Shelby County and its municipalities to implement over the next 30 years. This plan will identify key considerations that allow local government to set data-driven goals that balance the operational and financial impacts of implementing programs that support long-term environmental benefits of sustainable materials management.

*This is the April 2026 DRAFT version of this plan.

Mid-South Community Climate Action Plan (CCAP)

The Mid-South Community Climate Action Plan (CCAP) builds on the Mid-South Climate Action Plan: Priority Reduction Measures (PCAP). The plan expands on the PCAP's priority measures to include measures under all greenhouse gas accounting sectors. It also identifies near- and long-term ghg emissions reduction targets and outlines recommendations and targeted actions to take to achieve those goals. 

Mid-South Climate Action Plan (PCAP)

Mid-South Climate Action Plan: Priority Reduction Measures is a collection of targets and recommendations that will guide the Memphis Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) toward a low carbon economy, combat the adverse effects of climate change, and promote a sustainable future. 

Mid-South Regional Resilience Master Plan

The Mid-South Regional Resilience Master Plan is a comprehensive step toward addressing environmental challenges that threaten our region and laying out a roadmap to achieve a more resilient future for the Mid-South.

Memphis Area Climate Action Plan

The Memphis Area Climate Action Plan is a framework for achieving significant reductions in our community's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and fostering a more equitable, healthy, and prosperous community. The plan provides information on existing emissions and outlines specific actions in three sectors - energy, transportation, and waste - to achieve these goals.

Mid-South Regional Greenprint

GREENPRINT 2015/2040 is a plan designed to enhance regional sustainability by establishing a unified vision for a region-wide network of green space areas, or Greenprint. This network serves to address long-term housing and land use, resource conservation, environmental protection, accessibility, community health and wellness, transportation alternatives, economic development, neighborhood engagement, and social equity in the Greater Memphis Area.

Sustainable Shelby

In 2008, Sustainable Shelby was developed by 130 people participating in seven committees and a team of professional urban planners from the Memphis and Shelby County Division of Planning and Development (DPD). For four months, committees sifted through hundreds of ideas from sustainability best practices research. The final implementation plan resulted in a total of 151 strategies and was intended to be used as a living document to guide the region’s sustainable practices.

Smart Memphis

Smart Memphis recommends advancements in the City's use of technology, analysis of data, and deployment of fiber and discusses how operations and management - people - enable these advancements. The aim of the plan is to illustrate how the city government can serve the people of Memphis by using technology for the primary purpose of improving economic opportunity and quality of life. This plan serves as a starting point to inform how we use technology to shape the future of economic opportunity and quality of life for residents and businesses alike.