Rising gas prices, crowded transit, and limited bike facilities

Help develop a sustainable transportation plan for Baltimore

Kathy Harget, The Young Sierrans Chair, has been appointed as member of Baltimore City 's new Commission on Sustainability and is Chair of the Transportation Working Group for the development of a Sustainability Plan to improve the quality of life now and for generations to come. The Transportation Working Group is one of six that have been formed to focus on the following topics:

• Air & Energy
• Water
• Waste
• Green Infrastructure
• Built Environment
• Transportation

The Sustainability Plan is an opportunity to transform City policy and guide future actions by government, business, and individuals on the wide variety of ways to make the City a more environmentally friendly and a better place to live. Listed below are the dates, times, and locations of the July "Community Conversations" for each of the six Working Groups.

The July and August "Community Conversation" meetings are to develop goals, strategies, and indicators to for each of these topic areas. Specifically, the Transportation Working Group will be looking for ways to make the transportation system more multi-modal, accessible, efficient, equitable, integrated, safe, and environmentally-responsible.

• July 15, Transportation, 6 p.m.
  Planning Dept., 417 E. Fayette St. , 8th Floor
• July 15, Energy & Air, 6 p.m.
  The Village Center , 904 Washington Blvd.
• July 15, Waste, 6 p.m.
  JCC of Greater Baltimore , 5700 Park Heights
• July 17, Built Environment, 6 p.m.
  Planning Dept., 417 E. Fayette St. , 8th Floor
• July 17, Green Infrastructure, 6 p.m.
  HEBCAC, 901 N. Milton Ave.
• July 17, Water, 6 p.m.
  Pleasant View Gardens , 201 N. Aisquith St .

The August meeting of the Transportation Working Group will be at 5:45 p.m. on August 21st at the Orleans Public Library (1303 Orleans St). After the Working Groups have concluded their outreach there will be additional opportunities to provide input to all topic areas at the Mayor's Night In on September 17th and at a meeting of the Sustainability Commission on October 28th.

Ways you can get involved

• Attend the Working Group meetings in July & August
• Attend the Mayor's Night In on September 17th and the Sustainability Commission Public Presentation on October 28th
• Personalize this message and send it to your network of contacts (friends, place of worship, neighborhood assoc., etc.)
• E-mail suggestions for the plan process or plan content to sustainability@baltimorecity.gov
• Get information about upcoming meetings by e-mailing office_of_sustainability-join@lists.baltimorecity.gov
• Get more information at the Department of Planning web site.
• Attend the Sustainability Commission coordinating meetings (4th Tuesday of each month, 417 E. Fayette St, 8th Floor)