First Name: | Bruce |
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Last Name: | Abanathie |
Email Address: | babanathie@hotmail.com |
Affiliation | private citizen |
Subject | Green House Target Setting |
Comment |
The text of SB 375 requires a "jobs-housing balance". The RTAC seems to have modified that requirement to a phrase that they coin as a "jobs housing fit". This is not the same. We in the Central Valley have been waiting three plus decades for the (SF)Bay Area to take responsibility for the housing of their population. The commuter has brought many negative effects to the Valley in the form of increased crime rates, gang violence, housing prices that the Valley worker cannot afford, as well as a significnat amount of the GHG attributal to the Valley - if not attributable to the commuter themselves then by the domino effect of the commuter of forcing further commutes by local workers. I recomend that in the process of setting targets for the reduction of GHG that the phenomina of the Bay Area commuter rest on the shoulders of the source of those emissions - the counties that refuse to provide necessary housing. A 50/50 split is not the answer. If any county does not meet the necessary "jobs-housing balance" they should receive penalties in the same character as the counties that have made prior GHG improvements receive credits. This recommendation should be shared with the HCD, who have for years also ignored the jobs-housing imbalance caused not only by the commuter, but by their own methods of setting the RHNA based on prior housing rather than balance. |
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2009-11-02 13:36:54 |
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