And so, although, the existing ordinance was great, you know, being a progressive city that we are, and realizing the newer technologies are becoming available, we felt that we could maybe, do more. And partially what was pushing us to do more, was through the California Environmental quality act, and that is really where the Planning Department has stepped in and we are often finding out that the public works projects were having to do additional modeling and or do modeling and have to do additional measures, beyond the existing clean construction ordinance to comply with sequa. And so, we did not really feel that that was the most efficient way of doing the development and review, of the public works project and has to compile the ordinance and then the sequa has to do more. And so us collaborating with the department of Public Health and we went on an extensive modeling effort to map the areas in the city that have the most burden from the air pollution and that is what this map sho
The Emissions Reductions and compared to the other equipment, is a much cleaner, and this is consistent with the sequa and i did not, and and lastly, it provides a greater ability to monitor for compliance, and this picture here, is highlighting these red stickers on the Construction Equipment. And this is now required by the state law, that all Construction Equipment is supposed to have a sticker on each side, and six characters, and you can write down the six characters and go online, so that the Resources Board website and look up the equipment and see if it is actually meeting the ordinance. And we will tell you if it is tier 2, or 3, and that is the public may not do that. And and we will help the agencies monitor the compliance and so over all, and we just leave that up and the ordinance will be more health protective and we think that it is continues to be feasible, and they are really protecting the workers and the residents and so i am happy to take any questions and we dont k
Health 15 minutes discussion and action joining us from the Planning Department, and just kind of in the spirit of some of the conversations that i heard earlier, and this has really been an effort between our departments and the department of the environment and william and bob that we have been working with and we have done tons of out reach with the other city departments in trying to update this, ordinance, and so, this presentation, will be similar to what i gave at the policy subcommittee back in march. This is a health protective ordinance and it deals with the exhaust from the Construction Equipment. And air pollution is one of the leading environmental causes of cancer deaths, as recognized recently by a World Organization of leading scientists that it is, or carcenogin and more and more research is coming out and almost, daily from scientists and journals that my colleagues that the department of Public Health pass on to us, and the ordinance that became effective in 2009, ap
In the peoples travel times, which i think is, and as you said, even more important than that, and just the decreasing in the variability of the peoples travels times and i know that like, for instance, when there is a public works project and there is a nice, little, sort of poster or a sign that says, you know, this was paid for by, you know, american reeninvestment act or whatever it was and that was tremendously helpful in helping sort of the people and coming for them. And, that is really, great, feedback. And what we are doing, now. Is developing a communication strategy called muni forward. And that takes not only the transit effectiveness projects, investments but also, the new vehicles, and some of the Infrastructure Investments that we are making and develops the communication strategy around them. And the transit effectiveness project is sort of a clunky planning tool. And so, in terms of communicating we are looking forward for the muni forward as that vehicle. One of the t
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