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Greenbelt Alliance In the News
June 25, 2004 Take a green tour
through the city Subheading Kathleen SullivanGet an environmental perspective on how high-density urban neighborhoods can be livable -- and lovely places to live -- during a narrated walk Saturday through the Duboce Triangle neighborhood. The walk is organized by Greenbelt Alliance, a nonprofit group that protects open space and promotes livable communities in the Bay Area. To set the stage for the walk, the group has organized a panel discussion by a trio of experts, including David Goldstein, co-director of the energy program at the Natural Resources Defense Council in San Francisco. Goldstein, an energy efficiency expert who has worked for the environmental group since 1976, was named a MacArthur Fellow -- and given a no-strings-attached $500,000 grant -- in 2003. The Greenbelt Alliance has dubbed the event "Livable Cities From a Green Point of View.'' "The walk will give people a new lens to look through to see their city from a new perspective,'' said Julie Cummins, who is the education program coordinator at Greenbelt Alliance. Cummins said the narrated tour, which will last about 1 1/2 hours, will include a saunter up Noe Street to see how pedestrian improvements -- benches, trees, street planters -- have made it an enjoyable walking experience. "It feels so good to walk down that street,'' she said. Participants will also visit Duboce Park; see the "pod'' where some of the lime-green City CarShare Volkswagens are parked, awaiting drivers; meet inside the Church Street Apartments, a 93-unit, affordable housing building that opened in 2002; and see other buildings, new and old, that contribute to the neighborhood's urban ambiance. "We will also look at some older buildings that are moderate to higher density that have no parking built in,'' Cummins said. "Today, if anyone proposed a 40-unit with no parking, people would be up in arms. So we're going to look at how development used to be.'' The free event, which is co-sponsored by the San Francisco Bay Chapter of the Sierra Club, begins at 10 a.m. in the community room at the Church Street Apartments, at 1 Church St. (one block north of Market Street). The narrated 1-mile walk is expected to begin at 11:30 a.m. For more information, see www.greenbelt.org. ### |
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