Thursday, August 28, 2014

How we got to Plan Bay Area and the Sleazy World of Politics, Money and Power


How we got to Plan Bay Area

 

 

Population Council created in 1952, founded by John D. Rockefeller 3rd


 

Nixon Administration

Rockefeller Commission report: Population and the American Future


 

NEPA National Environmental Policy Act of 1969


 

US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)


 

Environmental Quality Council Reports:

1. The Unfinished Agenda


 

2. Use of Land

 

Environmental Protection goes global: United Nations

UN Bruntland Commission report Our Common Future, the three E's: equity, environment economy the pillars of Sustainable Development





 

UN Agenda 21 (international environmental management system)

National land use plan changes our urban, suburban and rural land use to urban, open space, agriculture and wildand/habitat.

 


UN Biodiversity Assessment


Unsustainable:


 

Bush Administration

Signed on to the 1992 Earth Summit Action Plan for sustainable development aka Agenda 21


 

Clinton Administration

Executive Orders creates President' Council on Sustainable Development (PCSD)


 

Sustainable Development is Smart Growth (urban) and wildlands (rural)

 

HUD grant to American Planning Association (APA)

This APA legislative guidebook was prepared under HUD

Cooperative agreement H-59-51‐CA in 2002


 

Obama Administration

Executive Order creates Rural Council


 

Sustainable Development in Federal Agencies

United States federal executive branch agencies implementing sustainable development:

 


 

State of California

 

AB32 Climate Change Act


 

SB375 Regional Sustainable Community Strategy


 

State Housing Element Law

Regional Housing Needs Allocations (RHNA)


 

Essential Habitat Connectivity Map


 

Joint Policy Committee (JPC/JPA)


 

Regional Initiatives


 

Plan Bay Area


 

Follow the Money: Nonprofit Maps


 

 

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