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From:Richard Schmidt <
To:E-mail Council Website
Subject:Agenda correspondence
Agenda Public Comment for Oct 6, 2020
Oct. 1, 2020
Dear Council Members,
While it is remarkable that you’ve recently adopted a Climate Action Plan long on idealistic unachievable goals, it is even
more remarkable that you continue to overlook simple things in our daily lives that would have actual positive
impact on GHG emissions.
So I will proudly tell you that I’ve just returned from spewing a half hour’s worth of GHGs into our polluted 99 degree air
simply to mail two urgent letters outside the downtown post office that until recently I could/would have mailed by walking
3 blocks to a pickup box on Foothill near Chorro.
The city would have to be blind to be unaware of the postal service’s continuing removal of pickup boxes, something that
began long before DeJoy’s reign of error. But the city has sat on its hands, not uttering a peep about how such mass
removal affects our lives, traffic, and the Earth.
Why? I think if you were actually serious in cutting GHG emissions this sort of fine-grained GHG-impacting city planning
would be at the top of your list.
So how about sitting down with postal people and using your bully pulpit to get them to reinstall some of the removed
boxes? That’s the sort of thing leaders do.
Sincerely,
Richard Schmidt
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“The most radical environmentalist in the world” -- Metropolis
PS. You all have made a mess of downtown with closed streets, reduced traffic lanes for virtually-unused bike lanes, a
proliferation of crappy-looking parklets extending into the street, and the resulting seemingly perpetual gridlock. That is
why a 2-mile trip, a mile each way from my house to post office, took a half hour of GHG emitting. The extra emissions
being caused by your proud downtown “improvements” work against everything y’all claim to stand for. How about
thinking these things through instead of being ideological because gridlocking traffic sure isn’t a GHG solution?
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