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Meeting the Challenges
The world is changing*
Louisville can plan for the changes or be overtaken by them.
Yesterday’s vision will not meet tomorrow's challenge.
Louisville needs visionary leadership with a plan.
Portland, Oregon Streetcar
Louisville will meet the challenges of the twenty-first century by:
- developing a great public transit system before building any new Ohio River bridge
(8664 - River Fields - Build the Bridges Coalition) (Tolls)
- establishing an urban services boundary (Louisville Loop - 21st Century Parks)
- investing in the education of our children, not in a fleet of school buses
- making our streets safe enough to walk and bicycle
- giving school assignment preferences to students who will walk and/or bicycle to school
- reducing public infrastructure subsidies for new fringe neighborhoods
- developing a low energy, a clean energy, diverse, strong economy
- reducing our local economy’s huge fuel dependency (Cheap, plentiful fuel)
- investing in our urban center
- creating a city center that is liveable, not just a place to work and then party til dawn
- investing in the liveability of our established neighborhoods
- improving affordable housing within our neighborhoods
- reducing mobile source pollution of air and water
- reducing impermeable surfaces
- increasing urban gardening/agriculture
- supporting and diversifying regional agriculture
- leading state government to change law and funding mechanisms supportive of this agenda
- backing up our unequivocal message to Frankfort with unwavering commitment within Metro government
Jackie Green is the only candidate that has embraced a bold, cohesive strategy
to improve Louisville’s land use, health, education, transportation, environment, and economy.
* The world is changing.
- World human population is rapidly approaching 7 billion.
- Global climate change will result in the dislocation of many of that 7 billion.
- Billions live below “the poverty line”.
- Current material consumption levels are unsustainable.
- The fulfilled aspirations of the impoverished billions will further increase material consumption.
- The unfulfilled aspirations of the impoverished will not result in an outpouring of good will toward those who are better off.
- Foundational life supporting organisms are threatened by increasing ocean acidification.
- We are beginning to experience a lack of equilibrium in the global economy.
- Carbon taxes are approaching.
Louisville will feel the impact of these changes.
Will we plan for or ignore the coming changes?
Louisville has played a largely unwitting role in creating these changes.
Will we play a positive, creative role in the future?
Will we consider intergenerational and intercultural justice, hyperconsumption and hypermobility as we strive to build a prosperous, healthy, beautiful, peaceful Louisville and earth?
  
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