Ecological Footprint
We all share the responsibility to reduce our unsustainable ecological footprint. My fervent belief is that local government has within its repertoire
some of the most powerful tools to reduce our ecological footprint, by reducing our resource use. I will step up to this responsibility and sponsor
this change.
Ideas
I support the following measures:
• integrated land use and transportation planning to build compact, mixed use and beautifully designed and appropriately scaled neighborhoods
at locations that provide transit and get people out of their cars
• a bold vision for transit that puts the person and not the car at the center of our city’s decision-making framework.
o I will put a pilot shuttle on our streets and work with the School District to examine a comprehensive “94941” solution by bringing
back school buses
o I will secure better local transit
o I will champion safe, protected wide bike lanes, bike storage, cycle tracks (wide, separated bicycle tracks, near the sidewalk and
inboard of parked cars) and pedestrian walkways,
o I will bring back our historic legacy with a commitment to restoring priority steps, lanes and paths.
• Watershed sustaining, green building approaches that are written into our development code. I am passionate about green building and
watershed design, assuring that building anywhere ~ from the top of the watershed to the lower flood plain ~ is done integrating the highest level
of green building possible and best management watershed sustaining practices that provide flood protection.
• Promotion of local, organic food production and consumption. We need to help Marin (and those of the local region) farmers, growers and
producers sell and market their products. We need to consciously buy local, organic products and remember that the premium we pay comes back
in saved fuel, embedded energy in production, promotion of local family farms, better nutrition and vitamin content and less packaging and waste.
• An energy policy for the city that is systematic in that it looks at both internal energy use for city services and functions and external energy
use by our community of households and businesses.
o I would like to see the promotion of solar energy, via technical assistance, incentives and the proper sizing of systems to allow for
meeting current and anticipated needs.
o In addition, the development code for the city should include energy efficiency requirements for proposed larger homes, to help
mitigate their size, that make them meet the energy efficiency benchmarks required of a smaller home. .
We all share the responsibility to reduce our unsustainable ecological footprint. My fervent belief is that local government has within its repertoire
some of the most powerful tools to reduce our ecological footprint, by reducing our resource use. I will step up to this responsibility and sponsor
this change.
Ideas
I support the following measures:
• integrated land use and transportation planning to build compact, mixed use and beautifully designed and appropriately scaled neighborhoods
at locations that provide transit and get people out of their cars
• a bold vision for transit that puts the person and not the car at the center of our city’s decision-making framework.
o I will put a pilot shuttle on our streets and work with the School District to examine a comprehensive “94941” solution by bringing
back school buses
o I will secure better local transit
o I will champion safe, protected wide bike lanes, bike storage, cycle tracks (wide, separated bicycle tracks, near the sidewalk and
inboard of parked cars) and pedestrian walkways,
o I will bring back our historic legacy with a commitment to restoring priority steps, lanes and paths.
• Watershed sustaining, green building approaches that are written into our development code. I am passionate about green building and
watershed design, assuring that building anywhere ~ from the top of the watershed to the lower flood plain ~ is done integrating the highest level
of green building possible and best management watershed sustaining practices that provide flood protection.
• Promotion of local, organic food production and consumption. We need to help Marin (and those of the local region) farmers, growers and
producers sell and market their products. We need to consciously buy local, organic products and remember that the premium we pay comes back
in saved fuel, embedded energy in production, promotion of local family farms, better nutrition and vitamin content and less packaging and waste.
• An energy policy for the city that is systematic in that it looks at both internal energy use for city services and functions and external energy
use by our community of households and businesses.
o I would like to see the promotion of solar energy, via technical assistance, incentives and the proper sizing of systems to allow for
meeting current and anticipated needs.
o In addition, the development code for the city should include energy efficiency requirements for proposed larger homes, to help
mitigate their size, that make them meet the energy efficiency benchmarks required of a smaller home. .