Can you help get the message on climate change to SANDAG this week (esp Fri, Oct 28)?

[Anne Tolch]

Important opportunity this week to let your voice be heard on how $214 Billion of our transportation dollars get allocated in our region through 2050.

 

The DRAFT plan does not contain adequate transit nor will it meet statewide targets for emissions.

 

Additional details and background below.

 

With thanks and best as always,

 

Anne

 

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From: Masada Disenhouse <mdise...@cox.net>
Date: Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:41 AM
Subject: [SD Moving Planet] Can you help get the message on climate change to SANDAG this week (esp Fri, Oct 28)?
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Dear all,

 

As you know, we’ll be at the SANDAG Board Meeting this Friday, Oct 28^th to let them know that they need to revise their 40-year Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) in order to significantly reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in San Diego County.

 

Can you join us Friday? If you can come please let me know – we want to fill the room! Please bring others too! Details are below.

Can you email SANDAG? (whether or not you can attend Friday)

Can you help make phone calls to folks on our list to help turn people out? Just taking 20 or 40 names (and leaving messages if no one’s home) would be fantastic. LET ME KNOW ASAP IF YOU CAN HELP.

 

Details, including links to talking points and a sample email are below. Please customize your statement/email and speak from your heart J

Talk to you soon,

Masada

 

 

Background: 

Transportation in San Diego County produces a whopping 46% of overall GHG emissions, a “good” transportation plan is crucial to reducing emissions. SANDAG is scheduled to approve its $214 Billion plan at their meeting this Friday. However, the plan is fundamentally flawed. Rather than achieving GHG reduction goals, it will instead promote further sprawl and more freeway lanes, perpetuating poor land use and traffic congestion. SANDAG has ignored thousands of public comments and a letter from the Attorney General’s office that calls on SANDAG to revise the plan. San Diego is the first county to produce a plan under the new state GHG reduction requirements. We can’t let a weak plan that doesn’t do its part to stabilize the world's climate serve as the example. Together we can: make sure SANDAG knows we’re tracking their actions; support the attorney general’s efforts to bring the San Diego County RTP into compliance; and ratchet up the debate for future RTP updates.

 

How you can help:

·         Join us this Friday. We want to fill the room at SANDAG’s Board Meeting to let them know their work is not done. You may sign up to talk (up to 3 min), or, if you don’t want to speak you may fill out a card to indicate you oppose the RTP. We will have some signs for folks to hold but please bring your own if you can. See talking points and quotes from the Attorney General’s letter here: word or pdf (make sure to customize your statement). The meeting is Friday, Oct 28^th, 9 am-12 pm at SANDAG’s offices near City Hall (SANDAG Board Room, 401 B Street, 7^th Floor). Please arrive by 8:45 AM to fill out the cards, get a sign, etc., and let us know if you can be there. Fortunately the item is towards the front of the agenda.

 

·         Email SANDAG Today. Let them know you are not happy with the RTP and that they must do more to reduce GHGs. See talking points, a sample email, and quotes from the Attorney General’s letter here: word or pdf  (make sure to customize your email). Emails must be received at SANDAG by Wednesday, October 26^th at noon in order to be incorporated into materials for the meeting. Please email SANDAG Chair Jerome Stocks, Executive Director Gary Gallegos, and your own SANDAG representative (your mayor if you live in an incorporated city, or your county supervisor). You may also phone. Please cc us (email below) so we have a record.

 

Let us know if you have questions & thanks for all you are doing to combat climate change!

 

Masada Disenhouse

SanDiego350 (Moving San Diego to a Clean Energy Future volunteers group)

Co-Chair, Sierra Club San Diego Climate Change Committee

619-335-1265

mdise...@cox.net

 

Our website: www.SanDiego350.org

Our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/MovingSanDiegoToACleanEnergyFuture

 

PS – sorry if you get this email twice – I don’t have the emails of everyone in the google group so you may get the email twice.

 

 

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[Aaron Contorer]

The U-T in this linked article is very supportive of the SANDAG plan. I agree, we need to send a strong message demanding a shift of more resources toward transit.

Please, folks, take this one seriously -- write to the government and to the local print, TV, and online media.

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