Oct News: Hear from Julian Castro Friday

Welcome to new list members who attended our Beyond Towers and Sprawl event. We heard an informative conversation between Alex Lee and Karen Parolek, featuring Opticos' visually appealing renditions of the climate-friendly, community-building housing we could have with appropriate reforms. If you missed the event, you can catch it here. Make sure to support Alex in his State Assembly campaign, and thank our cosponsors South Bay YIMBY and East Bay for Everyone. You can support Karen's work and learn more by buying Dan Parolek's book Missing Middle Housing.

Julian Castro at the YIMBY Awards this Fri!
Julian Castro, presidential candidate and former Housing & Urban Development Secretary under Pres. Obama, has been a national leader in calling for fair housing. He will keynote this year's YIMBY Awards. This year's event will be online at 5:30pm Oct 23: get your ticket now.

Reject a lease renewal for fossil fuel infrastructure on SF's public land
Urban Environmentalists Phillip Kobernick and Erik Shilts published this op-ed in the SF Examiner. Tell the SF Board of Supervisors that if their actions are to match their rhetoric on the climate emergency and our housing crisis, then a decade-long below-market lease to a gas station is not the way forward: sign our petition.

A telework mandate is not the climate solution we need
Rather than promoting walkable communities, complete streets, and fully funded transit, the regional transportation planning agency MTC is proposing to meet its obligations to reduce driving miles by mandating telework. Many of our region's political leaders, including London Breed and Scott Wiener, are pushing back. We have a petition with regional partner organizations led by Transbay Coalition to fix the mandate.

Transportation for America's new report Driving Down Emissions
Urban Environmentalists know that we can't decarbonize transportation with electric cars alone: and even if we could, we would be squandering the opportunity to prioritize healthier, equitable solutions. They gather together all our favorite arguments with compelling graphics and figures in this wonderful new report. Join them for a national discussion Oct 28.

Streets for People inaugural event
Friends of Urban Environmentalists have launched a new Bay Area organization Streets for People. Their first event will be a forum on Prop 22 this Thursday at 6pm.

Two weeks left to vote and volunteer!
We suggest referencing the YIMBY Action Voter Guide and the SPUR Voter Guide. And don't forget to volunteer for Yes on RR to save Caltrain!

What We're Reading

• Environmentalists use wildfire danger as new weapon against housing development
• Climate Risk: Missing Pieces & a Path to Action
• When legislators delay on housing reform, people of color lose
• California Will Keep Burning. But Housing Policy Is Making It Worse.

See you on the other side of November 3!
--Urban Environmentalists