[EQAB-list] Public Input: Air Quality and Transportation - with color dot voting

[Pat Imperato]

Ellen, I did get and opened your Word file on Sat.

I do understand the need to work out a protocol for posting the result of the public forum input and to provide a way for the public to respond.. Once Robert returns from DC, can Fred, Robert and Athanasia and whoever operates the city's website get together to discuss the best way to do this and bring a recommendation to our next meeting.  Thanks

Pat


Pat Imperato
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ellen Smith <smithellen at comcast.net>
To: Fred L Stephens <freds7 at dancingcreek.com>
Cc: eqab-list at discoveret.org
Sent: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 8:44 pm
Subject: Re: [EQAB-list] Public Input: Air Quality and Transportation - with color dot voting



For the record, one of the reasons why I copied this into a Word file
nd eliminated spurious line breaks is that I recalled that the flip
hart page had showed the 4-vote item "Join causes for public
ransportation: Elderly/economic/efficiency needs joined to the need for
ir quality" as one item, not two separate items. 
Did you receive the Word version of this that I sent on Saturday, or did
t get lost in the ether? (I know that it would have been auto-discarded
y the EQAB-list mailing list server, but I thought it should have gone
o Fred and Athanasia.)
Ellen
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 19:58 -0500, Fred L Stephens wrote:
 Public input on Air Quality and Transportation
 1/17/2009
 City of Oak Ridge
 Scribe: Fred Stephens, re-edit on=2
01/19/09
 
 (re-organized under topics, color dot voting is indicated by asterisks)
 
 [Education]
 Community education for understanding CO2 emissions and global warming.
 
 [Burning]
 No burning
 Open burning seasons (times of year to burn/not burn)
 Reduce emissions from burning (land clearing 
 waste, fireplaces, and home heaters)
 
 [Neighborhoods]
 Retrofit existing buildings for mult-use: residential/retail/office
 * Comprehensive plan for community work/live urban planning values
 Neighborhood retail
 Live where you work/ work where you live
 Complete streets 
 (<file:///http://www.completestreets.org/>www.completestreets.org)
 Streets with context sensitive design  (www.livablestreets.com)
 Commercial zones friendly to pedestrians and bikers.
 
 [Food]
 Local food production initiative to reduce 
 vehicle miles involved in transporting food and 
 increasing food/economic security.
 Buy local campaign
 * Community gardens in new developments
 
 [Schools]
   * Neighborhood schools
 Encourage kids to walk to school
 More utilization of school buses by kids
 Seat belts in buses to encourage school bus use
 Integrate public and school transportation.
 More efficient school buses
 Community integrated schools (more mix use of school buildings)
 
 [Government vehicles]
 * * Retrofit existing vehicles (government/schools) for use of natural gas
 Energy efficient city vehicles
 Alternative fuels for government vehicles
 
 [Vehicle pollution]
 Reduce vehicle idling (traffic light adjustments, 
 reduce school pickup idlin
g, reduce government. 
 vehicle idling, drive-throughs, roundabouts)
 Vehicle emissions testing and enforcement
 Engineer friendly for electric vehicles: slower 
 traffic/re-charge meters/time-of-day meters
 Traffic engineering for energy savings, bike 
 friendliness, and pedestrian friendliness.
 Strategic planning with a target of reducing mile traveled.
 Smart traffic control
 Traffic calming, roundabouts
 Eliminate heavy duty trucks short cuts through city
 
 [Telecommuting]
 Encourage telecommuting
 Reduce vehicle idling via flex-time jobs
 City broadband Internet and Wifi Internet to support telecommuting
 
 [Ride-sharing]
 Car clubs – zip cars (www.zipcar.com)
 Jitney service for the elderly
 Share taxi. (A mode of transport that falls 
 between private transport and conventional bus 
 transport, often with a fixed or semi-fixed 
 route, but with the added convenience of stopping 
 anywhere to pick or drop passengers and not 
 having fixed time schedules. The vehicles used 
 range from standard 4 seater cars up to minibuses)
 Car-pooling, vans, etc.
 Incentives for micro buses
 * Computer networking for car pooling: i.e. Use 
 expertise of computer networking  designers 
 (packets) to participate with traffic engineers in considering options
 Smart options on debris removal for development (related to burning/chipping)
 
 [Public transportation]
 Regional public transportation
 More public transportation
 * * * * Join causes for public transportation. 
 Elderly/economic/efficiency needs joined to the ne
ed for air quality.
 * Arterial shuttles
 Light rail
 Zero-pollution transportation (Smart technology choices)
 
 [Parking]
 Day Parking lots to support use of public transportation
 Parking lots on edge of town connected to bike lanes and public 
ransportation.
 Green parking lots: lots that are environmental friendly
 Parking lots with plug-in vehicle meters for recharging.
 Incorporate parking into parks and recreations plans of walking and biking
 
 [Bikes/walking/pedestrians]
 * More bike lanes and bike boxes (Bike boxes: Google “Portland bike boxes”)
 Strategic planning for bike paths: connecting
 Strategic planning for walking pathways/sidewalks – again connecting sections
 Make bikeways and off-street walkways for new developments a requirement
 Slope friendly boardwalks as opposed to sidewalks 
 because high slope sidewalks are unusable.
   * More sidewalks
 More green belts for encouraging walking/biking
 Bike racks
 Community bicycles
 * Pedestrian bridge over turnpike
 
 [Trees/vegetation]
 Tree planting education (appropriate trees by growth, side)
 City forester
 Using vegetation (trees/shrubbery) to cool air and protect bldg from 
inds/heat
 Underground utilities to save overheard trees from pruning
 Control tree cutting more
   * Control invasive plants
 More native plant utilization
 Less grass to mow
 
 [Other]
 Capitalize locally on local recycling
 Solar attic fans
 Encourage photovoltaic use
 Light pollution control
 Grants for green money
 More pollution controls on 
all power generation.
 Emissions containment
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Fred L Stephens
 email: freds7 at dancingcreek.com   
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