City Councillor Denise Simmons:

Questions on environmental issues

 

1.  Yes

2.  Yes

3.  Yes

4.  Yes

5.  Yes

6. Yes

7. Absolutely

8. Yes

9.  Yes

10. Yes

11 Yes, I would be very interested in seeing the language

development for the incentive program

12.  Yes

13.  Yes, and would like to have discussion with cities like Boston

and Somerville to see if we could have and cooperative venture

14. Yes.  The best type of energy source is electric.

15. I appreciate the intent here, and would like to see more

information before rendering a decision. A mandatory T-pass purchase may be prohibitive for some families.

16. Yes, I support the notion of shuttle support for seniors,

youth and citizens between neighborhoods  centers and the library.

17. Undecided

18.

19. I would like to see a great deal of community education

before we implemented this type of imitative.

 

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Environmental Issues: short answer yes and no with exceptions noted. Please answer so we can compare candidates. Fax answers to 617-876-8991 or email: carmean2@yahoo.com

1.     Do you support the LEED silver standard for new buildings?

 

  1. Do you support tax incentives for private developers to use LEED silver standards for building and restoration?
  2. Would you support master planning, zoning, incentives and requirements by the City to make shopping, laundry, schools, parks, recreation and libraries and essential services within a ten-minute walk of residents?
  3. Would you support life-cycle costing in planning so that the cost of use, harm, waste, and renewal is included in costing for decisions, for example leaf removal?
  4. Would you support conservation by-laws to restrict building in one-hundred year flood plains?
  5. Should Cambridge hire an Energy Manager?
  6. Do you support requiring contractors to submit their plans before paving?
  7. Would you support a ban on building in parks and open space?

9.     Do you support the current proposed tree ordinance to protect trees?

10.  Would you support protection of legacy trees of more than 30 inches diameter at breast height on private and public property? Would you support protection of trees on lot lines, where most of our city’s trees live?

11.  Do you support incentives to enforce the current noise ordinance? Noise level restrictions on lawn & landscaping equipment like leaf blowers?

  1. Do you support more aggressive enforcement of the state’s 5-minute anti-idling statute, especially for buses, trucks and heavy construction vehicles and posting the anti-idling law near schools and major intersections?
  2. Do you support approval of shuttles in Cambridge?
  3. Do you support requiring all City funded or partially-funded vehicles use no diesel, or have 2007 standards and requiring all the existing diesel vehicles to use low sulfur or bio-diesel fuel and requiring all City non-emergency vehicles have 27 mpg?
  4. Do you favor discounts/rebates for T-passes to all residents and do you favor mandatory T-pass purchase for each parking permit?
  5. Do you support shuttle service for elders, youth and all citizens between neighborhood centers and to the new Main Library?
  6. Do you support elimination of the one parking place per unit requirement if the building is within a mile or half-mile to a T stop?
  7. Do you support tax incentives to use compact fluorescents and LEDs, bicycles, sustainable energy sources, maintenance of large trees, reuse of older buildings, gardens and open space and other wise environmental strategies?
  8. Do you support taxing vehicles by weight so that SUVs and vehicles would have to cover the life cycle cost including reparation of air quality and increased risk of danger to their passengers and those they hit?