Transportation, Climate Change

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Transportation, Climate Change Energy
Security Climate Change in New Mexico Seizing
the Opportunities UNM, Albuquerque 21 August
2009 Dr. John Holtzclaw Chair, Sierra Club
Transportation Committee john.holtzclaw_at_sierraclu
b.org www.SierraClub.org/sprawl
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3 Hh/Res Acre (Courtesy City
of Portland)
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THE LOFTS at Marquez Place Santa Fe, NM
23 hh/ac gt1.5 pkg/unit
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San Francisco North Beach Paul and Tira 90
Hh/Res Acre Backyard, No parking
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San Francisco - North Beach 90 Hh/Res Ac
Underground parking
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San Francisco West of Union Square 3 x 4
block zone 7 live theatres, fine hotels, cafes
and markets 1 to 36 stories, mostly 4 -
16 stories 467 - 536 Hh/Res Ac 15 of land
residential limited parking
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San Francisco West of Union Square 3 x 4
block zone 7 live theatres, fine hotels, cafes
and markets 1 to 36 stories, mostly 4 -
16 stories 467 - 536 Hh/Res Ac 15 of land
residential limited parking
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Ann lbs CO2 emissions/capita
14,827 9037
3863 1603
www.sflcv.org/density
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Location Efficient Mortgage LEM
research Institute for Location
Efficiency Center for Neighborhood Technology
(Chicago) Natural Resources Defense
Council Surface Transportation Policy Project
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LEM Research Nearly 3000 neighborhoods
(TAZs) Chicago, LA and San Francisco metro
areas How do densities (3 measures)
shopping proximity
public transit ped/bike (grid,
short, narrow, sidewalks, setbacks)
family income family size impact
vehicles (census data) VMT
(odometer readings from smog checks -- total
driving, not just
commutes)
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Annual Household Driving San Francisco
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Achieving Community Efficiency 1. Zone for
compact neighborhoods with sidewalks, local
shopping and restaurants, but with
no front and side yard setbacks nor required
off-street parking. 2. Incorporate attractive
architecture, green building standards and
quality construction. 3. Design streetscapes to
provide pedestrian and bicycle amenities and
calm traffic. 4. Provide a wealth of parks,
creeks, wildlife corridors and recreation
areas. 5. Seek diversity in family incomes and
ethnicity. 6. Locate neighborhoods near downtown
or other centers. 7. Provide excellent public
transit. 8. Eliminate subsidies to auto use (with
fuel, parking, VMT and congestion pricing PCO
and unbundled parking). walk the neighborhood
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Collateral Benefits of Compact Development Saving
building materials, heating cooling energy,
and water cuts energy use and pollution (Phillip
s Gnaizda, CoEvolution Quarterly, Summer 1980)
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urban infill (100 units/res acre)
sprawl
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urban infill (100 units/res acre)
sprawl
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Gentrification? Actions to make it your friend
Employer-Assisted Housing Healthy Food
RetailingBrownfields Minority Contracting
Real Estate Transfer Taxes Local Hiring
Strategies Affordable Housing Dev Retention of
Subsidized Housing Commercial Linkage Strategies
Commercial Stabilization Community Mapping
Community Dev Financial Insts Cooperative
Ownership Models Just Cause Eviction Controls
Code Enforcement Infill Incentives Developer
Exactions Living Wage Provisions Rent Controls
CDC's with Resident Shareholders Community
Reinvestment Act Inclusionary Zoning Housing
Trust Funds Limited Equity Housing Coops
Community Land Trusts http//www.policylink.org
/EDTK/tools
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Resources

• http//www.sierraclub.org/sprawl/
• http//www.sierraclub.org/sprawl/density/
• http//www.usmayors.org/climateprotection/
• http//www.smartgrowthamerica.org/
• http//www.pps.org/
• http//www.lgc.org/
• http//www.charretteinstitute.org/
• http//www.epa.gov/dced/index.htm/