Sierra Club Questionaire

=Questionnaire for City Council Election, February 2006=
Source, SIERRA CLUB, Allegheny Group
==1. What has been your greatest effort so far to help protect the environment?==
==2. What will be your environmental priorities be if you are elected to City Council?==
==3. How do you believe Pittsburgh may increase its growing reputation as a “green” city?==
==4. Although under-funded to the tune of approximately two billion dollars, the Turnpike Commission still plans to extend the last segment of the Mon/Fayette Toll Road all the way into Oakland.==
a. What do you believe will be the impact of this planned Toll Road on the City?
b. Do you support ending the Toll Road at its present terminus on Route 51?
c. Do you believe that the City should seek an alternative solution to the transportation problems of the region?
==5. If ownership of the 635 acre un-developed area above Hays were to become available to the City, how do you believe the area should be managed:==
a. As a City park?
b. Completely handed over for private development?
c. Part retained as a park and part handed over to private development?
d. Other uses?
==6. To reduce landfills and lower overall energy consumption, the City currently has a recycling program in place. ==
a. Do you believe that it is adequate?
b. If not, what new measures do you believe should be put in place to strengthen the current program?
==7. Tax Increment Financing (TIF) is still a very controversial issue because it is not being used as the legislation intended it to be used (i.e., for the redevelopment of brownfields). What will you do to prevent the misuse of TIF's?==
====Please number your responses to match the numbered questions, sign & date, and return a hard copy to:====
	Peter J. Wray
	110 Royal Oak Ave
	Pittsburgh PA 15235
We also ask that you send an electronic version to pjwray@verizon.net. 
Thank you.