Healthy Communities Discussion Group with YIP

A City That Works - May 29, 2008

What does this goal mean to you?

• Pollution control.

• More recycling (plastic).

• Safer parks (kids/out and active).

• Educational curriculum.

• Want to be high quality, useable design.

• Attract people.

• More public transportation (more value, use asset).

• Success strategy, clean energy, get energy.

• Affordable public transportation.

• Septa buses, filters emissions to reduce.

• Use hybrids.

• Biking lane, safety.

• Recycling, all over the city.

• More trash cans.

Performance measures (What success would look like)

• Franklin Payne's Park, see it happen, (dual use park), obtain $2 million to implement city plan, within one year.

• Keep track of recycling percentage.  Move from current 8 percent (residential) to 25 percent by 6/2010.  Educate and enforce.

• In subway (access to change), employee change machine, signage – times to next bus, signage to stations.  Prioritize based on ridership.  Measure success.

• Fifty percent of people use own bag by 1/2009 (target large chain stores).  Reduce use of plastic bags.  Law to ban usage and fee to support usage. 

• For office buildings, have regulations on recycling (no paper, no plastic) passed by 12/08 and implement by 7/09.

• City pickup or building removal in one day.

• Comprehensive energy audit of city property (city hall, municipal building, recreation centers, heating, cool lights on/off, schools – 65 in winter) by 12/31/08.

• Ten percent of residential energy costs.

• Fifty percent city electric source from alternative energy source.

• Price appreciation of real estate. (Sales price is 10 percent greater then other "great cities.")  Meaning, areas that have great public transport are "valued" more – yet don't raise tax assessments. 

• Assess asthma incidents in hospitals (pollution, smog index drops 25 percent over five years, due to filters and appropriate modifications to public transportation.

• All Philadelphia neighborhood recycle more plastic, (8 percent goal, since San Francisco has a 14 percent goal). 

• Target attracting residents around public transport (Spring Garden station).  Example, have 1,000 commuters within five blocks of subway station. (Eliminate parking jams, increase usage from local businesses and consumers.)

Customer-service standards

• Respond within 48 hours when there is a complaint about on-time service, changes, signage, etc) re: public transportation is made.

• Use complaints to analyze and reallocate resources.

• If bus is more than 15 minutes late, rider gets "free" ride.