Visioning, Planning and Information: The overall sustainability vision and implementation plan, and the information system that encourages and supports continuous learning and improvement.

Green Infrastructure: Strategies to provide essential infrastructure in ways that minimize costs and environmental impacts.

Jobs and Business Development: Strategies and programs which make the most of the locational efficiencies of the target area connect to existing jobs and create new ones, and to expand business opportunity for community residents

Key Development Projects: Three major development projects that, by their location and scale, can have a decisive impact on the community.

Neighborhood Revitalization: The engagement of residents and the business people in the renewal of residential areas, commercial strips, and social, health, and educational institutions and programs.

Innovative Finance: A range of strategies that can capture funding for sustainable development at the community level that otherwise would be spent on large systems or which permit the marketplace to recognize locational and environmental assets.

In the "paper" Prospectus, specific actions are described for each component. Partners are identified who have operational responsibility for each action in an appendix which is updated regularly