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Greenbelt Alliance In the News
March 17, 2007 Letter to the editor Emerald City? EDITOR: Santa Rosa is no longer a sleepy little town, as columnist Gaye LeBaron and contributor Steve Frye both recently pointed out ("Reality sets in," March 4, and Close to Home, March 7). Santa Rosa has grown fast, and we're paying for that haphazard growth with traffic and unaffordable housing. But now we have a chance to plan for a better future. The city is creating a vision for downtown development for the next 20 years. In that time, the population of Santa Rosa is predicted to grow by 30,000 people. This is our opportunity to accommodate that growth in a smarter, greener way. To do that, the Downtown Station Area Plan should include a strong inclusionary housing policy. This will require that a percentage of new residential development is affordable to people such as teachers, nurses and retail workers so they can live in the community where they work. This will reduce traffic and air pollution, and protect open space. The downtown plan should also require all new development to meet green building standards, to green our city while we grow. Santa Rosa has become a big city. Now let's make it, in LeBaron's words, the "cleanest, safest, healthiest ... greenest, and proudest city" it can be. DAISY PISTEY-LYHNE Sonoma-Marin field representative, Greenbelt Alliance Santa Rosa ### |
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