Good ideas require collaboration and input from a variety of sources. Help shape our focus by taking this short survey about our 2015 draft platform.Β The first 3 questions will ask you to rank your top 3 ideas from the platform. The last question is your opportunity to suggest an issue related to Philadelphia's built environment that we're missing. We will survey the responses and evaluate and update if there are any popular areas of focus we didn't capture. Thanks for your help in building a bright, inclusive future in Philadelphia politics.
2015 Platform Survey
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A: PUBLIC SPACE: Triple Our Parks & Green Space Funding From Current Levels
A: COMPLETE STREETS: Adopt Vision Zero Plan for Philadelphia
A: TRANSPORTATION CHOICE: City-Wide System of Protected Bike Lane Arterials
A: GOVERNANCE: Codify the Open Data Executive Order Into the City Charter
A: FINANCE: Increase Land Value Tax, Decrease Business & Wage Taxes
A: LAND USE: Legalize Car-Free Housing
A: COMPLETE STREETS: Adopt Vision Zero Plan for Philadelphia
A: LAND USE: Complete All Neighborhood Remappings by 2019
A: FINANCE: Increase Land Value Tax, Decrease Business & Wage Taxes
A: It seemed as though some issues in the survey were inclusive of other issues (e.g. protected bike lanes on JFK and Univ City is implicit in City Wide System of Protected Bike Lane Arterials.
I would like to see some way to effectively reduce automobile speeds, to lessen the danger, noise, and pollution.
Perhaps you can add “Posted speed and design speed lowered to 20 mph for all streets city wide.”
A: FINANCE: Increase Land Value Tax, Decrease Business & Wage Taxes
A: COMPLETE STREETS: Enable Streets Department to Repurpose Parking or Travel Lanes Without Councilman Approval
A: TRANSPORTATION CHOICE: City-Wide System of Protected Bike Lane Arterials
A: COMPLETE STREETS: Adopt Vision Zero Plan for Philadelphia
A: Improved urban design and amenities alone do not a livable, sustainable city make. There is a large gap in this platform in addressing the widespread poverty and crime in our city (something that I feel the urban planning community seems to tune out more often than not). It’s a massive issue, and the city isnt going to improve holistically unless it is addressed. Many of these recommendations are ideal, but city budgets are finite. Rethinking the tax structure is worthwhile no doubt, but the new structure values business over residents, particularly low-income residents, the problems of crime and blight will only expand. Last, a political movement that focuses on new, shiny feel-good policies without taking a broad, realistic look at the diverse constituents of the city and the very deep-rooted needs in many of our communities will be severely limited in its appeal. Great start, but I think you guys can do better.
A: Improved urban design and amenities alone do not a livable, sustainable city make. There is a large gap in this platform in addressing the widespread poverty and crime in our city (something that I feel the urban planning community seems to tune out more often than not). It’s a massive issue, and the city isnt going to improve holistically unless it is addressed. Many of these recommendations are ideal, but city budgets are finite. Rethinking the tax structure is worthwhile no doubt, but the new structure values business over residents, particularly low-income residents, the problems of crime and blight will only expand. Last, a political movement that focuses on new, shiny feel-good policies without taking a broad, realistic look at the diverse constituents of the city and the very deep-rooted needs in many of our communities will be severely limited in its appeal. Great start, but I think you guys can do better.
A: LAND USE: Legalize Car-Free Housing
A: COMPLETE STREETS: Adopt Vision Zero Plan for Philadelphia
A: ENVIRONMENT: City-Wide Street Sweeping
A: Increase transit frequency and span so that the subway and bus systems have high frequency service on nights and weekends.
A: TRANSPORTATION CHOICE: "Free" SEPTA Pass & Bike Share For All University Students & Staff
A: LAND USE: Legalize Car-Free Housing
A: TRANSPORTATION CHOICE: City-Wide System of Protected Bike Lane Arterials
A: LAND USE: Legalize Car-Free Housing
A: GOVERNANCE: Codify the Open Data Executive Order Into the City Charter
A: Trash receptacles at all SEPTA bus stops and commercial areas.