Fifth Accident on Evergreen Since 2012

Can we please have a community meeting about this?

http://www.homesteadbeat.com/2015/10/and-hits-just-keep-on-coming-fifth.html

Fourth Accident on Evergreen Since 2012

http://www.homesteadbeat.com/2015/10/fourth-accident-on-evergreen-since-2012.html

Strong Towns : Five Ways Engineers Deflect Criticism

Some of these sound very familiar to me. How about you?

http://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2015/10/5/the-five-ways-engineers-deflect-criticism

Articles on Low Impact Development

People get paid whether they put down or take up concrete...

http://gizmodo.com/how-technology-can-help-cities-make-better-use-of-storm-1704129487

Time for low impact development to go viral.

Related:

http://theconversation.com/stormwater-innovations-mean-cities-dont-just-flush-rainwater-down-the-drain-40129

Speeding Cars and Curbs in the News

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/girl-8-struck-killed-car-jumps-curb-front-bronx-school-article-1.1986388

http://ktla.com/2015/05/04/mother-toddler-killed-by-alleged-drunk-driver-after-bay-area-wine-festival/

http://abc7news.com/news/speeding-cars-eject-3-people-kill-1-in-san-jose/538932/

Handcycle Attachment Turns Wheelchair Into a Motorbike

http://www.homesteadbeat.com/2015/04/handcycle-attachment-turns-wheelchair.html

Could this device eliminate the need for curb cuts and driveway ramps, allowing for more efficient and interesting street designs?  Check it out.

Patch Articles

After we noticed that a couple of the Patch articles referenced in previous articles received an error message, we did some digging and found a few of the articles missing and some missing comments.

Here's what we could dig up for reference. Let us know if you can find any more articles elsewhere.

Thanks in advance.

http://patch.com/california/millvalley/roz-hamar-head-of-marin-horizon-school

http://patch.com/california/millvalley/county-narrows-evergreen-ave-sidewalk-plan-moves-ahead

http://patch.com/california/millvalley/bp--home-in-homestead-valley


* http://patch.com/california/millvalley/county-backs-evergreen-ave-project (comments are missing)


http://patch.com/california/millvalley/contentious-evergreen-ave-sidewalk-project-begins-monday



*Our records show this article first appeared in July 2010, as it was reporting this Marin County Board of Supervisors meeting :

http://marin.granicus.com/MinutesViewer.php?view_id=33&clip_id=4405&doc_id=6145f5eb-1197-102e-b5c3-16ad23a5d22d

Youth Create Video about Sewer Infrastructure

from : http://www.avehicleforchange.com/2015/03/youth-make-video-to-raise-awareness.html

Water Retention Landscape Course

Could be a good idea to send some of the DPW staff here - or perhaps some urban planning folks.
Or maybe some students.

http://thepermacultureschool.org/water-retention-landscape-course/

San Francisco Is Painting the Streets With Historical Creeks

http://www.citylab.com/design/2014/11/san-francisco-is-painting-the-streets-with-historical-creeks/382655/

Transportation for America Petition : Tell Congress : Send Dollars Where the Real Needs Are

http://action.smartgrowthamerica.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=19208

I share this particular petition for the following paragraphs in the robo letter it creates and sends to our Congressional representatives :

"• Ensure funds are flexible enough to spend on all modes of transportation. Let communities invest in whatever way will bring the biggest bang for the buck.
 • Empower local communities with more control and resources. Local leaders are best able to identify the particular transportation investments to address their communities’ unique challenges."

The reason that neighborhoods with unique and historic character all over the country are getting cookie cutter concrete slabs forced onto them has to do with restrictions in the grant funding source.

For example - The Safe Routes funding for Evergreen started at the National level, then got distributed through the state.

So, by signing this petition, we will be giving more flexibility to local DPW departments. That translates to fewer cookie cutter intrusions into our unique local landscape. At least that's my optimistic interpretation.

Thanks for hearing me out on this. I don't want to start a whole uproar again, I just would like to see fewer communities divided over public space projects that are supposed to be beneficial.

I believe in the power of community.

We have the power to make positive change, but only if we are given the opportunity to engage in the process.

 Speaking truth to power is part of the process.

Sincerely,
Mari