Exciting news; the Oregon League of Conservation Voters has endorsed my candidacy for Metro president.
I am honored that OLCV has identified me as the one candidate who will best protect the land, water and air quality of our region.
My key environmental goals include:
• Reforming the “Columbia River Crossing” project on I-5 into a least-cost solution for a transportation bottleneck, instead of the current over-priced, over-built and over-sold $4 billion boondoggle that will cause sprawl, global warming pollution, and more traffic congestion on the Oregon side of the river.
• Protecting our farms, forests, watersheds and wetlands from sprawl, and maintaining our existing single-family neighborhoods, by putting new jobs and housing in the right places: the region’s downtowns and main streets.
• Reducing greenhouse gases from cars and trucks even as the region adds another million people, by giving us more choices in where to live and how to get around—by bike, on foot, or by transit as well as driving—and by not making costly and damaging expansions of the highway system.
