Statement of
September 23 Environmental Forum:
We have a moral responsibility to protect the environment on
which the
quality and ultimately the
possibility of life depends, for ourselves, for
our children, and for generations
to come. With population growth and
development, the pressures on the
environment are increasing. All of our
city's policies and actions need to
be environmentally sound.
If I am elected to the City Council, my environmental
priorities will be to
ensure that the city efficiently
and promptly meets
....1) its legal obligations to improve air and water
quality (CSOs), and
....2) its voluntary goals of reducing
greenhouse gas emissions.
Appropriate control and regulation and development is
essential to meeting
these goals.
I am a regular pedestrian, frequent rider on public
transportation, and a
fair-weather bicyclist. I am therefore acutely aware of the need to
reverse our population's increasing
dependence on the private automobile
for transportation within
More parks, less pollution of all kinds -- air, river,
noise, and light --
and protection of natural areas are
essential to the quality of life in our
city.
My most recent environmental efforts have been as first
signer and advocate
for the so-called Pitkin petition,
in 1997, to rezone much of the city,
which let to greater protection for
existing public and private open space
and a successful campaign
(2000-2001) to save a specimen tulip tree near
I am pleased to have been endorsed by the Sierra Club, the nation's oldest
and largest grassroots
environmental organization.
campaign phone: 617 864 3030
1. Yes
2 No
3. Yes
4.
5. Yes+ 50 years
6. Yes, but need fuller job description
7. yes
8. Yes with exceptions for recreation
9. Yes
10. Yes; yes
11. No. Just enforce it
12. Yes, No,
13. Yes
14. Yes, Yes with phase in
15. No, No.
16. No, but would support if enough people would use it
17. NO, but support more general exemption with safeguard
18. No
19. Y