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TITLE: Lean Forward Move Ahead Towards Sustainability

DESIGN PRINCIPLES:

1.Do more with less by working together as/with communities and using readily available resources.

2.Live with respect and responsibility towards each other and towards our environment/natural resources.

3.Affordable + sustainable housing within complete communities, with convenient green transportation.

4.Locally sourced food: preserving farmland + producing food in urban areas.

5.Keep in mind future generations: what kind of world are we building for them.

NOTES:

-Transportation; bikes, waterways, courier planes.

-Maintain and build more maps.

-Preservation of local areas with just a growth boundary because Buffalo-Niagara has enough used property resources. Rural areas could be added to it later if people wanted it.

-Office Industrial: green healthy buildings.

-Minority/women’s training center.

-Medical center: integrated, holistic health centers.

-Sustain what we have with respect to communities: diversity/ethnicity.

-HUB central transportation; bike paths.

-All new buildings, eco-friendly, while pre-existing ones should be weathered and self-sufficient.

-XR eat up all the farms meant to produce food for people.

-SF should be small eco-houses, affordable for anyone.

-Green skills training and green jobs.

-Increase use of waterways to move goods from place to place.

-Develop % of food hubs.

-Human powered network.

-Buses to connect five point hubs + bedroom communities.

-More jobs for minorities/women in large companies, trades, education.

-Jobs for senior citizens.

-More affordable housing projects.

-Better housing.

-Community based governance.

-Use less + produce more, more community cooperation, better choices.

-Education, jobs, housing.

-City of Buffalo.

-Life of respect for one another + the effect we have on each other.

-People to live a more self-sufficient lifestyle.

-Reduce urban sprawl to help transportation.

-Bring back jobs.

 

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Uploaded on November 21, 2013
Taken on November 19, 2013