Meeting Reminder + Vision Poll Results + Sample Goals/Actions

[Zimbabwe, Sam (DDOT)]

Hi all,

Final reminder about tonight’s Working Group #3 meeting at 6pm, 441 4th St, NW (1 Judiciary Square), Room 1114, as well as a few attachments for the meeting.

 

-          The poll on the vision statements was a bit like the Iowa Caucuses this year, with no clear winner… Attached is a 1-page analysis of the results. The bolded results were the highest vote recipients, and the gray highlight shows the highest overall score for each of the questions. We’ll try to finalize somehow tonight, but we may need to nominate a few people to do the final word smithing.

-          I’ve also attached the STAR Transportation Objectives. These were developed by ICLEI as part of their STAR Communities Initiative to create a local government sustainability rating system. These can provide food for thought and perhaps a starting point as we discuss goals and actions.

Look forward to seeing you tonight,

 

Sam

 

 

 

 

d.  Sam Zimbabwe LEED AP | Associate Director

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[Andrea Peet]

On the STAR Community Index Transportation objective, I'll just mention that these are draft standards at this point.  We are still working to refine the language and thresholds for credit (so the Sustainable DC process is perfect timing for us!) and have added a couple of Local Government Actions (p.2), listed below.  I'll be prepared to talk about STAR to the extent that is helpful to the group during tonight's meeting.  

 

--Charge the market rate for parking in all municipality owned and operated garage, surface, and on-street parking locations. Modify zoning codes to implement maximum parking requirements rather than minimum

 

--Develop, adopt, and implement a Transportation Demand Management Plan that includes strategies and incentives to encourage travel by modes of transportation other than single occupancy motor vehicles

--Reduce transit fares for low-income individuals

 

--Develop, adopt, and implement a traffic law enforcement plan

 

Reduced VMT is another Outcome that STAR has been wrestling with because the data at a juridisdictional scale isn't yet as robust as we need it to be for STAR as a rating system.  DC, since it runs its own DMV and can therefore track odometer readings, is in a unique position to measure VMT but that might too in-depth for tonight's discussion.

 

Andrea

 

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Andrea Lytle Peet, AICP
Program Officer

STAR Community Index
(202) 695-3179

 

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[Just Economics - Rybeck]

Dear Friends,

 

I am not able to attend tonight’s meeting.  I would endorse Andrea Peet’s comments below.  Also, regarding transit fares, they can be kept at reasonable levels without imposing an undue burden tax on the general public.  This can be accomplished through value capture.  In other words, transit creates enormous land values adjacent to the stations.  These values end up as windfall profits to those who are lucky or shrewd enough to own land next to the stations.  If this value were recaptured by the public, it could be used to support the transit that created the value, thereby making transit financially self-sustaining to a greater degree.   Funds could also be used to create affordable housing opportunities near transit.  Those landowners responsible for paying would pay in proportion to the benefit that they receive.  This makes the payments equitable, understandable, and more like a user fee than a tax.

 

Regards,

 

Rick Rybeck, Director

Just Economics, LLC

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[Annita Seckinger]

Hi,

 Sorry i missed the meeting. I had a last minute issue to attend to. Could someone please forward me a summary (if there is one) and let me know the date when the next meeting is scheduled so i can mark my calendar right away?

 Thanks tons

Hugggs,

 A

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On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Zimbabwe, Sam (DDOT) <sam.zi...@dc.gov> wrote:

[Zimbabwe, Sam (DDOT)]

Annita and everyone else,

The next meeting is going to be 6pm on Tuesday 1/31 in the same location. Some meeting notes and other info will follow soon.

Thanks,

Sam

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Subject: Re: [Sustainable DC Transportation] Meeting Reminder + Vision Poll Results + Sample Goals/Actions