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Working group flags health, equity and a $500 million shortfall for local road repairs
Summary
Participants raised public-health concerns about particulate emissions and housing near freeways, discussed equity and environmental-justice implications, and noted a street-department estimate that fixing local access roads would cost about $500,000,000; staff flagged road-user charges as one possible revenue approach.
Participants raised concerns about air pollution, noise and equity when locating housing near freeways and asked that the transportation chapter reflect health impacts. "I am super torn about the surplus land and building housing on it because it's a huge amount of land that's right next to the freeway and, like, the most particulate,"…
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