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Comment 14 for Comments in general on ARB Implementation of SB 375 (sb375-general-ws) - 1st Workshop.


First Name: Collin
Last Name: Rich
Email Address: crich@enterprisecommunity.org
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Subject: Adopt the comprehensive recommendations from the RTAC at your Nov 19th Meeting
Comment:
November 3, 2009

Mary Nichols
Chair, Air Resources Board
1001 "I" Street
P.O. Box 2815 
Sacramento, CA 95812

Dear Chairwoman Nichols and members of the board: 

I urge you to adopt the comprehensive recommendations from the
Regional Targets Advisory Committee (RTAC) at your November 19,
2009, meeting.  Crafted by a representative group of stakeholders
and your able staff, the RTAC report carefully balances greenhouse
gas reduction goals with social equity considerations of the
impacts on lower-income Californians. 

I work for an organization that helps develop affordable housing.
My role is to ensure that the projects we support, both new
construction and rehab, are ‘green’ (save energy and water, create
a healthier living environment, and reduce environmental impact).
Through my work, I have seen that affordable and green housing can
be one in the same, and that affordable housing residents are most
in need of these benefits.

Although supportive of the report as a whole, I urge your
particular consideration of the following recommendations:     

1.	Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) should update their
data collection and modeling to quantify the greenhouse gas
reduction impacts of housing affordability, gentrification, and
jobs-housing fit.  As defined in the report, "jobs-housing fit" is
the extent to which the rents and mortgages in a community are
affordable to people who work there.  In theory, a stronger
jobs-housing fit should allow Californians to reduce their commute
times and distances.  However, this link needs to be tested and
quantified, as do the links between home affordability generally
and gentrification.
2.	Performance measures for the sustainable communities strategy
should include the jobs-housing fit and 5 other housing-related
measures.    
3.	MPOs' progress in meeting goals should be measured through
modeling and other sound scientific approaches.
4.	The co-benefits of greenhouse gas reductions should be measured
and reported. 
We appreciate your consideration of our views.     

Sincerely, 
Collin Rich
Green Program Office

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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2009-11-03 13:55:58



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