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Barack Obama is creating the first Office of Urban Policy. What are the top priorities?

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    health tax credit for small business promoting walking or cycling as a means to get to work

    small businesses get a tax credit if a certain fraction of employees ride bikes, walk, or take public transit to work.

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    Offer Subsidy and tax credits for car sharing

    Offer tax credits and subsidy for those individuals and corporations that utilize the services of Independent car share organizations across North America. This supports entrepreneurship, locally hiring, reduced emissions (with fewer vehicles), and less stress on the infrastructure.

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    Reduce the dependence of cities and states on the Federal government.

    "Urban policy" directed from Washington is a huge mistake. Cities (and states) should become more independent and responsive to their own citizens and not be directed by Washington "policy makers".

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    Good Student & Good Parent Program

    Creating a system of rewards for achievement might help to improve student behaviors and dedication to their education. This "Good Student Grant" program would fund a school "store" that gives out prizes to students, as well as monetary rewards for the child's parents.

    Stu... more

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    Start "living laboratories" for implementing smart growth

    Create a streamlined process for starting city- and neighborhood-scale "Green Economy Flagship" buildings. These incubator buildings can house green businesses, green job training, non-profit and community groups, residential spaces, art and cultural facilities. Shared production facili... more

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    Encourage holistic development

    that addresses the multiple needs of low income populations. Instead of just providing e.g. affordable housing, encourage development and re-development that also looks at food security, environmental safety, access to transportation, jobs, education, and social services, and the like.

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    Install green infrastructure to fight heat islands

    This can include planting more trees, reducing hard surfaces, creating more shade, using water features to cool urban areas, and more.

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    Protect Individual Freedom -- Oppose the Office of UP

    The Office of Urban Policy will work very hard to deny you your individual freedoms. It should never exist. Freedom cannot be protected with government stepping into every nook and cranny of your private lives. Oppose this office and instead live free.

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    embrace the "No Child Left Inside" vision

    For years, children have increasingly lived their lives inside four walls -- doing what can be done within those walls. "Free range kids" are rare; when they get outside, it's often as participants in organized activities. Fortunately, there's a fast growing movement to reverse the tren... more

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    Use Maps to Guide Distribution of Involvement

    Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications enable maps to be created showing demographics, economic differences, etc. for a defined geographic region. Visualization applications enable leaders to create navigation tools, or blueprints, that point to many different problems that need to be... more

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    Provide funding for research on child-friendly environments

    Many urban areas in this country designed primarily for cars and not for people, particularly not for children. Though there has been some revitalization of downtown centers in many cities they are not necessarily child-friendly. In order to better design child friendly urban environments though,... more

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    Support Green Schoolyards in Urban Schools

    Many city kids have no access to or knowledge of the natural world. School gardens and habitat areas become outdoor classrooms for experiential learning, environmental literacy and systems thinking. These relatively low cost installations could prove to be our most valuable and productive urban o... more

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