Swampscott’s Climate Action and Resilience Committee is finalizing a set of guidelines on climate awareness that could soon be incorporated into the Planning Board’s rules and procedures.

The guidelines are meant to promote actions that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help with other climate-based issues like sea level rise and stormwater resilience.

The committee is creating a rubric with a points system to evaluate new building projects in town based on how they align with the rubric. The purpose of the rubric and adding any guidelines to the Planning Board’s procedures are to ensure that new projects and building plans are keeping the environment and the future in mind.

The Planning Board met with the Climate Committee a few months ago because committee had wanted additional bylaws when sites revolved around climate mitigation and other issues, according to Planning Board Chair Ted Dooley.

The Climate Action and Resilience Committee met on Tuesday to work on finalizing the rubric, which will soon be submitted to the Planning Board. Once submitted, the Planning Board will be able to easily adapt the rubric to their liking. The Planning Board would be able to adopt the rubric unilaterally since it is all subject to existing Planning Board jurisdiction.

One major focus of the rubric is to ensure that new projects are using energy efficiently. The Climate Action and Resilience Committee’s rubric submission would give projects points for being fully electric and not using fossil fuels as well as for having a high-performance envelope and energy recovery ventilation systems.

The rubric also supports projects with on-site renewable energy and storage, such as solar panels or a roof where solar panels can easily be installed and placed to perform effectively.

The guidelines also call for all parking spots to be EV-ready.

“There should be a number of high speed charging stations equal to 10% of parking spots or 10, whichever is less,” reads the guideline for residential ev-charging stations.

The proposed rubric would also give projects points for having other capabilities, including on-site retention for once in a generation storms, green infrastructure such as rain gardens, permeable paving and tree canopy preservation or expansion.

The finalized rubric will be submitted to the Planning Board in the near future. The board will then be able to make any changes deemed necessary.

Updated on April 10 at 1:50 p.m. with clarification on the procedure to codify the rubric.