Farm&City comments on item 45 – Calling for meaningful climate and air quality analysis of the proposal to fix I-35

TxDOT’s refusal to use an equitable scenario planning process with alternative reasonable future growth forecasts renders their “No Build” analysis meaningless in the climate emissions, air quality, and traffic modeling analysis.

Hello Mayor Watson and Council Members, Thanks so much for your consideration of Item 45, seeking to improve the climate emissions reduction and air quality improvement strategies of the plan to fix I-35 and rebuild the historic urban street grid. Farm&City is a tiny nonprofit and we don’t have funding to do this particular work, so I’m sorry to report …

2022: The year in Farm&City media hits

A significant part of our policy change strategy involves educating the public and leaders through engagement with public dialogue in the media. We change stories and framing to yield a paradigm that allows for rapid improvements in the quality of life of all Texans. We track when a Farm&City staff member or volunteer speak with a reporter, are quoted, and …

Prepared Remarks: Issues related to affordable housing, homelessness, and methods of providing and financing affordable housing

image from airplane of single family neighborhood in Brownsville

A September routine interim charge hearing of the Texas Senate Committee on Local Government turned out to be a packed room, with an overflow room almost full as well. People came out to talk about the affordability problems across our state, including those representing Big A Affordable Housing providers, those representing developers and home builders, and environmental, justice, and affordability …