Transcript tocppt - Futurewise

CREATING Transit-oriented Communities
“Catastrophic climate change – far worse
than anything we have experienced – will be
unavoidable if we don’t prevent a massive
“lock-in” of emissions from new coal-fired
power plants, long-lived industrial
infrastructure, inefficient buildings, carcentric cities, and irreversible deforestation.
The First Rule of Holes: when you’re in
one, stop digging.”
- Design to Win, A report commissioned by
the Energy Foundation
Where We Need to Be
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By 2035: about 40% below 1990
emissions (HB 2815)
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That’s about 60% below today’s
level
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Today’s vehicles, at 20 mpg
average, produce about a pound
of CO2e per mile
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If 2035 vehicles average 50 mpg
(equivalent), they will produce
0.4 lb of CO2e per mile, yielding
a 60 percent reduction in
emissions . . . if there is no
growth in VMT between now and
2035, as the region adds 1.5
million people.
Creating Transit-Oriented
Communities
Key components of
conservation include:
Add climate change to transportation
planning
Add climate change to land use planning
Require TOD at high-capacity transit
station areas
Maximize infrastructure investments
Key components of housing
affordability include:
Require a percentage of new
housing in TOD areas be
affordable to low-income people.
Development incentives like fast-track
permitting, reduction of parking requirements
Creating long-term affordable housing
opportunities
Why Transit-Oriented Communities?
Capitalize on taxpayer
investment
Global warming and VMT
reductions
Affordable communities
Healthier families
Combats volatile gas prices
Protect working farms and
forests.
Puget Sound restoration
CREATING Transit-oriented Communities