Environment and Transportation

Key Issues and Strategies

• Reduce Need For Transportation
  • Land use integration
  • Increase vehicle occupancy
  • Increase use of transit
    
    
• Climate Change
  
  
• Recycling
  • Material re-use
  • Value-added product creation (business potential)
    
    
• Evaluate Incentives
  • Provide incentives for alternative modes
  • Reduce incentives for driving alone
  • Fuel subsidies
    
    
• Reduce VMT
  
  
• Growth Management Strategies (growth boundaries)
  • Better manage sewer/infrastructure expansion
  • Focus on agricultural preservation
  • Conduct resource mapping
    
    
• Right-of-Way Management
  • Carbon sequestration
  • Native prairie
  • Stormwater management (best management practices)
    

Learn more about the Linking Environmental and Transportation Planning Advisory Group.