What is an Environmental Impact Statement?
After years of study, we completed a document called a "Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement." What does that mean and what was included?
- Taking Care of Nature: Looking at new rules that protect the environment and checking on new types of animals or plants that need extra care or consideration.
- Checking the numbers: Making sure we have the right information about how many vehicles (cars, trucks, buses) might use the roads in the future.
- Thinking of new ideas: Coming up with different plans that match the new information and taking into consideration what people in the neighborhood think about the plans.
- Making things better for everyone: Trying to connect neighborhoods so people can easily go to work or have fun, and thinking about how many lanes the roads should have to make sure people can move around safely.
- Including everyone: Making sure everyone's ideas and thoughts are considered. Sometimes the answer is “no, we can’t do that”, though we really welcome ideas and opinions.
- Looking at different ways to travel: Checking if there are other cool ways, like walking or biking, to get around town besides just using cars. Where we can, we help make it safer for bikers and walkers too.
