Gramps:
Please repost the PE Article with regards to Going Green in Grand Terrace. It is or will be interesting to see if Ms Garcia will do anything about doing something simple like changing the speed limit signs on Barton Rd and Mt. Vernon so the Speed it Posted at 35mph and the use of LEV's and NEVs (Light Electric Vehicles, and Neighborhood Electric Vehicles) can be used by the Citizens who are making short run trips to schools, or shopping inside GT.
The current posted Speed causes added pollution as drivers (some) try to accelerate up to 40 mph before they have to slow down to stop at the next corner. When the Speed Limit on Mt. Vernon was established there was only ONE stop sign, and that was at Barton RD and Mt. Vernon Ave. Now with Stops at Grand Terrace Rd, Barton, DeBerry, Van Buren, Pico and Main there is no reason what so ever to have a speed limit of 40mph. on Mt. Vernon Ave.
With the Planned Stop Signs at Honey Hills, and perhaps at Palm and Barton Rd, and existing lights at Mt. Vernon, Canal, Vivienda, Michigan, and so forth, Barton Road does not need to be maintained as a 40 MPH Zone either. Resistance of the City Staff in changing this impediment to the use of LEV's and NEV's in Grand Terrace is a demonstration that there is no effort to be Green in Grand Terrace.
This would not "COST" a big bunch of money to change the speed limit, so that the speed limit and average speed is 35mph though town. City Staff and Council Members are making it more difficult than they need to. IF Grand Terrace became LEV / NEV friendly, perhaps a new family of Green Businesses would locate in our centralized location.
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Please repost the PE Article with regards to Going Green in Grand Terrace. It is or will be interesting to see if Ms Garcia will do anything about doing something simple like changing the speed limit signs on Barton Rd and Mt. Vernon so the Speed it Posted at 35mph and the use of LEV's and NEVs (Light Electric Vehicles, and Neighborhood Electric Vehicles) can be used by the Citizens who are making short run trips to schools, or shopping inside GT.
The current posted Speed causes added pollution as drivers (some) try to accelerate up to 40 mph before they have to slow down to stop at the next corner. When the Speed Limit on Mt. Vernon was established there was only ONE stop sign, and that was at Barton RD and Mt. Vernon Ave. Now with Stops at Grand Terrace Rd, Barton, DeBerry, Van Buren, Pico and Main there is no reason what so ever to have a speed limit of 40mph. on Mt. Vernon Ave.
With the Planned Stop Signs at Honey Hills, and perhaps at Palm and Barton Rd, and existing lights at Mt. Vernon, Canal, Vivienda, Michigan, and so forth, Barton Road does not need to be maintained as a 40 MPH Zone either. Resistance of the City Staff in changing this impediment to the use of LEV's and NEV's in Grand Terrace is a demonstration that there is no effort to be Green in Grand Terrace.
This would not "COST" a big bunch of money to change the speed limit, so that the speed limit and average speed is 35mph though town. City Staff and Council Members are making it more difficult than they need to. IF Grand Terrace became LEV / NEV friendly, perhaps a new family of Green Businesses would locate in our centralized location.
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S.B. East Valley cities talk of building 'green'
12:11 AM PST on
Friday, March 9, 2007
By NAOMI KRESGE
The Press-Enterprise
Survey: Should cities begin setting environmentally friendly
standards for new development?
REDLANDS - Representatives of
several East Valley cities convened Thursday to discuss how to make buildings
greener and neighborhoods more environmentally friendly.
Redlands
Mayor Jon Harrison called the meeting, saying he wants Redlands to join
Riverside, which adopted a green policy last month, in promoting energy- and
water-efficient development.
"You can't wait three or four months," said Grand Terrace Councilwoman Lee Ann Garcia. "If we don't move work quickly a lot of things are going to happen without this."
Green development could mean building structures that don't use much energy or water and are made from environmentally friendly materials, speakers said Thursday. It also could mean designing neighborhoods to be compact and oriented toward the street so residents can more easily walk or bicycle.
Mary Tucker, a supervisor in the city of San Jose's environmental-services department, spoke at the Redlands session and in an afternoon meeting in Riverside. Other speakers in Redlands were Eric Shamp, a Redlands planning commissioner and sustainable-design director for HMC Architects, and Susan Lien Longville, director of the Water Resources Institute at Cal State San Bernardino.
San Jose requires that all new city buildings be certified under the nonprofit U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design ratings system. Since beginning the program in 2001, the city has built a LEED-certified library, is awaiting certification on a second project, and is working on 10 more buildings, Tucker said.
The next step is to promote green-building practices in the private sector, Tucker
said.
In San Bernardino and Riverside counties, the idea of green-building practices has begun to take hold in the past year, said Pasqual Gutierrez, president of the Inland California chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
Garcia said she hopes to incorporate environmentally friendly rules into the update of Grand Terrace's general plan, which will spell out land-use rules for the next decade.
"I think 'green' and 'sustainable' need to be key words," Garcia said.
Reach Naomi Kresge at 909-806-3060 or nkresge@PE.com
What is LEED certification?
The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design -- or LEED -- rating system is a national standard for measuring how environmentally sensitive a building is. Buildings can earn points in several categories:
Water savings
Energy efficiency
Materials selection
Indoor environmental quality
Source: U.S. Green
Building Council
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Dear Gramps:
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