ATLANTA
– Today, The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that the City of
Atlanta, GA will receive technical assistance through the Building Blocks for
Sustainable Communities Program.
EPA
consulted with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the
U.S. Department of Transportation to select this year’s 43 recipients from 121
applicants through a competitive process. EPA staff and national experts will
conduct workshops that focus on the specific sustainability goal each community
chose in their initial application to EPA. The agency offered nine tools this
year, including using smart growth to build economic and fiscal health,
exploring neighborhood planning for healthy aging, creating a Green Streets
Strategy, and creating sustainable strategies for small cities and rural areas.
Building
Blocks for Sustainable Communities is a project of the Partnership for
Sustainable Communities among EPA, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD), and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). The
interagency collaboration coordinates federal investments in infrastructure,
facilities, and services to get better results for communities and use taxpayer
money more efficiently. The partnership is helping communities across the
country create more housing choices, make transportation more efficient and
reliable, reinforce existing investments, and support vibrant and healthy
neighborhoods that attract businesses.
Atlanta
is receiving assistance with supporting Equitable Development. This tool will
help communities evaluate their needs around equitable development and identify
the most effective tools and strategies to address these priorities. Equitable
development principles provide communities with a path to improve their quality
of life and economic opportunities while ensuring that existing residents are
not displaced and have full access to the benefits of these improvements.
Equitable development is not just about affordable housing; it includes the
full range of factors that contribute to residents’ quality of life, including
access to high-quality employment; safe, walkable neighborhoods; regional
transportation connections; and access to the amenities, services, and
community institutions residents need to thrive.
“Creating
resilient communities is vital to protecting public health and the environment,
“said Regional Administrator Gwen Keys Fleming. “EPA’s Building Blocks Program
will give city leaders and other community partners the necessary tools to
stimulate local economies and promote thriving, sustainable communities”.
Nationally
43 communities - rural, urban, and suburban - will receive technical assistance
to pursue sustainable growth that encourages local economic development while
safeguarding people’s health and the environment.
To
date, 141 communities have received EPA’s assistance through the Building
Blocks program. Together, EPA, HUD and DOT form the federal Partnership for
Sustainable Communities, which coordinates investments in housing,
transportation, and environmental protection to get better results for
communities and use taxpayer money more efficiently.
Source:
U.S. EPA [mailto:usaepa@govdelivery.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 5:17 PM Subject:
New Release : Atlanta among Recipients of Smart Growth Assistance Provided by
EPA, More information on the Building
Blocks program: http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/buildingblocks.htm
More
information on the Partnership for Sustainable Communities:http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/partnership/index.html
Comments:
HUD,
DOT and EPA are implementing UN Agenda 21, created as an excuse to fight the
man-made climate change hoax. The projects they propose will feel like “night
of the living T-SPLOST” with expensive, unnecessary infrastructure for “economic
development”.
The
projects are meant to increase density and congestion and fill Atlanta with
apartments on public transit bus and train routes to provide corporate cronies
with land sale profits and work in the design, development and construction of
apartments and retail development. It
will all look like Atlantic Station and will struggle for lack of renters and
patrons. Jobs, unfortunately, will not be available within walking or biking
distance and the economic fundamentals suggest that there will be fewer jobs.
Atlanta
is the least dense metro area on the planet because of decades of poor
transportation planning and our desire to flee from crime plagued areas. We
will be taxed more for property and utilities to pay for this boondoggle
including fees for water, natural gas, electricity, phone, etc. In California, this crowd left cities in bankruptcy.
Most
of this push will be cheerleading propaganda for regionalism and more local
government-backed tax authorizing districts. GDOT claims it will not have the funding to do
much. Money will be printed to give
federal grants, laundered through state agencies like ARC, GDOT, MARTA and HUD.
The EPA is here to implement its overreaching regulation of air and water, so
hide your carbon and hang on to your property rights and wallets.
The
real nasty regional plans have already been approved by Georgia’s rural county
commissions in their Comprehensive Land Use Plans aimed at driving farmers out
of business with EPA and USDA regulations and land grabs by government to turn
farm land into “wildlife preserves”, because of our insatiable need for “green
space” (for wild animals).
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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