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Mary Nichols, Chairman
California Air Resources Board
1001 I Street
Sacramento, CA 95812

Dear Ms. Nichols, 

As one who has spent most of the past decade as a municipal
planner in southern California, I would like to enthusiastically
endorse the Congress of the New Urbanism comments (No. 68 of Land
use subsection) regarding the urgent need for the scoping plan to
put substantially more emphasis on implementing greenhouse gas
reduction targets for land development.  While some reductions
will result from implementing energy efficiency policies,
exponentially more can be accomplished if such policies are
integrated with an equal emphasis on smart growth land use
policies.  

Indeed, for California to continue to be viewed as an
environmental leader, such a synergistic integration of policies
is absolutely essential. Likewise, for California to continue to
be viewed as an engine for economic innovation, nothing less will
suffice, since the future strength of the state’s economy largely
depend on how well it is able to maximize the opportunity to
become energy efficient. Setting the land use development bar
un-sustainably low, simply means that California will increasingly
be uncompetitive in the global marketplace as sub-continents such
as the European Union aggressively pursue policies that
effectively integrate smart technology and land use policies!     
     

I thank you for your time and consideration of my comments.  

Sincerely 


David James Petritz