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November 26, 2019
Asheville City Council Meeting
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D
My
name
is
Mike
Sol
and
executive
director
of
national
and
bikes.
Our
mission
is
to
cultivate
the
culture
of
urban
and
commuter
riding
through
advocacy
in
celebration
and
I'm
here
before
you
tonight,
to
talk
about
on
the
consent
agenda,
the
Riverside
railroad
crossing,
as
you
can
see
here,
this
is
basically
what
breaks
us
cycling
down
and
a
lot
of
our
work
is
focused
on
the
interested
but
concern
the
actual.
A
lot
of
our
advocacy
work
is
getting
people
on
bikes.
What
is
currently
being
proposed
at
the
Riverside
is
complex
heading
south.
It's
50%.
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D
When
we
talk
about
cultivating
the
culture
of
riding,
we
talk
about
opening
cycle
cycling
up
to
people
who
are
not
on
bikes
in
the
river
arts,
district
you're
building
the
rat
tip,
which
is
a
great
project,
and
you
have
the
blue
way
which
is
coming.
You
have
a
green
way
and
active
transportation
facilities
on
one
side
of
the
tracks,
and
you
have
active
transportation
on
the
other
side
of
the
tracks,
you're
asking
the
most
vulnerable
users
to
make
the
most
dangerous
maneuver.
We
don't
want
to
stop
that
and
we
as
affluent
bikes.
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A
D
I
do
want
to
be
on
record
to
compliment
city
staff
they
have
reached
out
to
me.
We
have
work,
we
have
spoken
together.
We
have
traded
ideas.
We
understand
that
this
is
a
challenge
with
the
North
folks
southern,
but
we
want
everyone
to
have
in
their
mind
that
this
is
a
safety
third
approach
and
if
our
values
are
reflected
in
our
infrastructure,
so
the
work
must
continue.
Thanks.
E
Council
nice,
to
have
my
name,
is
Clark
Mackey
I'm,
a
board
chair
of
Asheville
on
bikes
and
I
love
our
city
I'm,
going
to
read
to
you
a
few
of
the
survey
responses.
So
two
years
ago
a
council
person
Whistler's
request,
we
surveyed
bike
riders
to
determine
the
extent
of
the
danger
of
the
railroad
crossing
and
Mike
Abele
show
that
the
railroad
crossing.
E
These
are
some
of
the
descriptions
of
what
has
been
happening
to
cyclists
at
a
rate
of
we
presume
a
couple
a
month
when
we
asked
have
you
ever
picked,
someone
up
has
been
injured
on
the
tracks
or
been
injured.
Almost
every
cyclist
in
our
organization
had
a
positive
response.
These
are
some
of
the
detailed
responses
from
actual
people
who
are
hurt.
I
was
unable
to
safely
cross
the
tracks,
as
it
was
raining
in
my
tire.
Got
caught
I
hit
the
pavement
right
from
a
car
lots
of
road
rash
and
some
bruises.
E
E
I
could
not
cross
the
tracks
at
a
90
degree
angle,
because
a
large
truck
was
coming
from
behind,
so
I
did
my
best,
but
the
bike
tire
caught
in
the
track
and
I
fell,
broken
collarbone
and
cracked
pelvis
my
front
wheel
caught
the
railroad
tracks
and
I
flipped
I
landed
on
my
shoulder
scraped.
My
face
the
top
of
my
shoulder
and
I
broke.
My
elbow
I
have
permanent
mobility
problems
in
a
recurring
pain
from
the
injury.
E
I
was
headed
south
on
Riverside
Drive,
when
several
cars
approached
me
from
the
rear,
I
signaled
to
move
left
to
try
a
cross
perpendicular.
The
first
car
in
line
sped
past
me
forcing
me
back
to
the
side
of
the
road
as
I
crossed
the
tracks.
At
last.
In
the
optimal
angle,
I
caught
my
wheel
in
the
tracks
went
down
and
skidded
several
feet.
On
my
left
side,
I
had
abrasions
on
my
left
side.
E
For
my
shoulder
to
my
knee
a
deep
gash
on
my
left
elbow
my
front
wheel,
got
stuck
in
the
track
and
I
flipped
on
I
had
broken
radius
and
seven
stitches
across
my
chin.
I
was
riding
at
high
speed
on
my
road
bike
and
I
didn't
expect
the
rail
to
be
going
diagonally
across
the
river.
There
were
cars
behind
me,
so
I
wasn't
able
to
correct
in
time
because
I
would
have
ridden
into
traffic.
E
My
bike
went
out
from
under
me
and
I
hit
my
head
on
the
rail.
My
helmet
was
cracked
I
stood
up
and
was
disoriented.
I
called
for
help.
I
went
to
the
ER,
I
had
a
neck
x-ray
and
an
MRI
no
brakes
or
major
issues,
but
it
has
significant
concussion
and
was
out
of
work.
The
following
week
we
had
a
hundred
and
thirty
seven
responses
like
these
42
of
people
who
agreed
to
allow
them
to
be
shared
in
public
and
I.
Just
read
less
than
ten.
E
A
F
A
Any
other
is
there
anyone
else
wishing
to
speak
on
the
motion
to
approve
the
consent
agenda.
Okay,
well,
I
appreciate
a
schwa
one
banks
coming
tonight.
I've
heard
definitely
heard
from
bikers
myself.
Cyclists
bikers
are
motorcyclists.
Okay,
cyclists,
myself
about
having
accidents
at
this
location;
okay,
all
those
in
favor,
please
say
aye
any
opposed
all
right.
Thank
you.
A
We
have
no
presentations
and
reports
tonight
under
public
and
let
me
just
say
folks,
if
anybody's
here
for
the
one
new
business
item,
which
is
a
resolution
amending
the
city
of
Asheville
land,
use,
incentive,
grant
policy,
that's
been
pulled
for
tonight
and
we
will
probably
have
it.
Maybe
next
meeting
no
mouthing
at
me
January,
okay,
January,
alright,
so
we
have
three
public
hearings
tonight.
The
first
is
a
resolution
to
permanently
close
an
unopened
alley
known
as
Lenox
Court
Chad.
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G
Have
two
well
actually
three
different
right
ways
to
work
together,
but
the
first
will
be
Linux
court,
which
I
do
not
have
a
map
in
front
of
me.
I
apologize
for
that,
but
this
is
between
Linux
Street
and
hillside
on
the
property
of
the
Jewish
Community
Center,
the
Jewish
Community
Center
is
actually
the
petitioner
to
close
this.
This
particular
closure
did
go
in
front
of
multimodal
Commission
multimodal
did
support
the
closure
of
this
right-of-way,
with
the
understanding
that
there
would
be
during
access
left
between
the
two
streets,
Hill
siding
linux,
and
that
does
exist.
G
C
A
H
I
A
J
A
F
A
A
G
Can-
and
both
of
these
right
ways
are
within
the
Senate
property
is
why
they
have
been
grouped
together
in
the
same
staff
report
and
such
the
petitioner
of
this
is
James
Wilson
of
Long
Shoals
development
has
been
joined
by
Ken,
creek,
vistas,
LLC
and
Karen
and
Gordon
Frazier.
Those
are
the
adjoining
property
owners.
G
This
was
presented
to
the
proposal.
To
close
all
these
was
presented
to
all
city
staff
through
the
TRC
process
and,
though,
objections
no,
no
objections
from
local
utility
companies.
This
was
also
presented
multimodal
no
objections,
unanimous
support
on
these.
They
are
two
dead
in
right-of-ways
that
only
affect
the
adjacent
properties
that
were
mentioned,
and
staff
also
supports.
Closing
up
these
right
ways.
Okay,.
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F
A
F
A
A
Okay.
That
concludes
the
road
closing
and
the
last
public
hearing
item
is
a
public
hearing
to
amendments
to
article,
maybe
the
type
of
public
hearing
regarding
amendments
to
article
8
of
the
unified
development
ordinance
in
order
to
permit
campgrounds
and
accessory
dwelling
units
in
the
highway
business.
Zoning
district,
shannon
tuck,
will
present
this
item.
L
Thank
You
mayor
members
of
council
in
July
of
this
year,
the
petitioner
for
this
request,
drew
Crawford,
submitted
a
zoning
text,
amendment
to
the
you
do
regarding
permitted
uses
in
the
highway
business
and
the
residential
expansion
zoning
districts.
This
request
has
been
amended
somewhat.
It's
actually
been
reduced
slightly
and
it's
boiled
down
now
to
two
basic
requests.
The
first
is
to
add
campgrounds
as
a
permitted
use
in
the
highway
business
district
and
the
second
is
to
add
accessory
dwelling
units
as
a
permitted
use
in
the
highway
business
district.
L
So
in
other
words,
if
you
want
to
build
a
unit
that
looks,
feels
acts
and
is
subordinate
to
another
single-family
home
on
the
property,
and
you
happen
to
be
somehow
with
distance.
There
is
nothing
to
stop
you
from
doing
that.
Just
adding
accessory
dwelling
units
is
is
just
calling
it
something
else
that
accessory
dwelling
units,
as
you
all
know,
are
typically
found
in
our
single-family
districts
and
you're.
The
property
is
limited
to
only
one
accessory
dwelling
unit
and
the
highway
business
district.
There
is
no
limit.
You
can
have
one.
L
You
can
up
to
you,
can
have
three
as
long
as
you
can
meet
all
of
the
other
applicable
requirements.
Also
regarding
the
request
for
campgrounds
this
particular
zoning
text.
Amendment
is
further
complicated
by
the
fact
that
the
petitioner
has
publicly
stated
that
what
he
is
most
interested
in
in
the
campground
use
as
a
way
to
allow
a
low-cost,
flexible
units
that,
despite
being
limited
to
a
temporary
or
recreational
use,
would
be
occupied
on
a
long-term
basis.
L
More
specifically,
the
applicant
is
interested
in
a
particular
product,
known
as
tiny
homes
on
wheels,
which
are
not
typically
inspected
or
approved
for
permanent
living.
So
what
the
petitioner
is
asking
for,
campgrounds,
which
is
a
recreational
or
a
temporary
use,
isn't
exactly
what
he
has
quickly
stated
to
be
as
priority,
which
is
to
provide
a
form
of
low-cost,
flexible
housing,
which
is
not
a
recreational
use,
its
of
residential
use.
As
an
alternative
to
the
zoning
text
amendment,
we
would
recommend
that
mr.
L
Crawford
continue
his
efforts,
exploring
a
pathway
to
constructing
his
units
on
under
HUD
certification
program
or
under
the
North
Carolina
Building
Code,
and
that
HUD
program
is
similar
to
it's.
A
program
that
currently
exists
is
similar
to
what
is
used
for
manufactured
homes.
If
this
is
achieved
that
this
can
be
achieved,
then
we
can
look
at
different
zoning
models.
We
already
have
an
overlay
designation
that
allows
for
manufactured
housing
that
could
be,
you
know,
considered
and
expanded
in
the
future.
L
If
there
was
interest
in
that,
we
could
also
look
at
whether
or
not
it
was
appropriate
to
adopt
a
different
zoning
classification
for
tiny
home
communities,
provided
they
can
meet.
You
know
that
housing
standard
that
certification
standard
or
that
North
Carolina
Building
Code
standard.
If
that
can
be
done,
then
we've
definitely
got
the
zoning
tools
to
make
it
work
where
appropriate.
M
A
M
H
A
A
R
S
S
So
what
I've
done
is
I've
taken
a
look
into
some
of
the
numbers
of
the
average
and
median
incomes
here
in
Asheville
and
applied
that
to
the
average
Asheville
home
value.
How
long
it
would
take
someone
in
my
position
or
in
these
positions
to
purchase
a
home
here
versus
a
tiny
house
or
a
DIY,
tiny
house,
and
so
the
current
average
Asheville
income
is
twenty-eight
thousand
one
hundred
and
six
dollars
a
year
and
based
on
the
Bureau
of
Labor
Statistics.
It's
I've
done
a
breakdown
of
what
they've
represented
as
over.
S
Oh
excuse
me
over
all
expenses
and
overall
savings
for
the
year
and
then
based
on
that,
with
the
average
Asheville
home
value
of
two
hundred
and
eighty
one
thousand
dollars
roughly
how
long
it
would
take
an
individual
making
the
average
Asheville
income
to
save
for
a
down
payment
on
this
house
and
with
the
average
income.
It
is
three
hundred
and
thirteen
months,
which
is
approximately
twenty
six
point,
one
years
for
a
DIY,
tiny,
tiny
house,
with
the
average
cost
of
twenty
three
thousand.
S
S
C
S
See
down
here
the
breakdown
for
that
is
to
save
with
the
average
or
the
median
income
of
forty
four
thousand
dollars
a
year.
Roughly.
It
comes
down
to
a
hundred
and
ninety
nine
months,
which
is
sixteen
point
six
years
to
save
for
the
average
Asheville
home
81
months
or
six
point
eight
years
for
a
premade,
tiny
house
or
twenty
eight
point,
three
months,
which
is
two
point
four
years
for
the
down
payment
on
a
tiny
house,
and
so
obviously
one
of
the
differences
here
is
with
a
conventional
home.
S
You
have
your
thank
you,
your
land
and
your
home
together,
but
with
tiny
houses.
Obviously
you
have
to
look
at
lot
rent
or
with
these
campgrounds
or
other
spaces,
where
you
can
rent
land,
and
so
you
do
have
that
added
expense.
But
with
thirty
three
point,
nine
percent
of
your
income
coming
to
housing
already
you'd,
be
allowing
some
of
that
for
your
payment
and
for
your
lot
right.
T
Thank
you.
My
name
is
Amelia
Schroeder
and
as
a
County
residents,
I'm
very
interested
in
tiny
house
living
in
general
I'm
here
in
support
of
drew
and
the
possibility
of
Asheville
setting
an
example
with
tiny
houses
moving
forward
as
an
affordable
housing
option.
My
partner
and
I
are
currently
in
possession
of
a
tiny
home.
We
moved
to
North
Carolina
two
years
ago,
as
it
was
one
of
the
most
tiny
house
friendly
states
in
the
country
at
that
time.
T
The
difference
that
that
would
make
for
us
is
1,300
a
month
or
in
rent
plus
utilities
puts
us
at
about
1600
a
month
plus
student
loans
equals
not
a
lot
left
over
going
into
a
tiny
house
would
allow
us
to
put
money
back
into
the
local
economy
and
really
support
the
reasons
and
the
companies
and
the
culture
and
all
those
things
that
we
moved
here
for
in
the
first
place.
So
I
just
ask
that
you
consider
the
working
people
who
are
supporting
Asheville
as
we
move
forward
with
this
discussion
tonight
and
in
the
future.
A
You
just
a
point
of
clarification
for
staff.
For
so
is
there
anything
folks
can
put
accessory
dwelling
units
on
there.
We
loosened
up,
in
fact
the
accessory
dwelling
unit
rules
for
neighborhoods,
so
people
could
add,
you
could
call
them
a
tiny
home
or
you
call
them
accessory
dwelling
unit,
but
essentially
two
properties
right
now
throughout
the
city
in
residentially
zoned
areas,
that's
right,
but
the
question
tonight
is
about.
Do
we
think
it
is
a
smart
policy
move
to
take
a
highway
business?
L
L
It's
not
a
dwelling
unit,
regardless
of
what
somebody's
intent
may
be.
It's
not
a
dwelling
unit,
so
we
cannot
put
it
in
that
category
as
housing,
and
that
is
what
appears
to
be
the
driving
force
behind
this.
If
property
is
classified,
if
the
use
campground
is
permitted
in
the
highway
business
district,
these
tiny
homes
may
not
stay
on
the
property
for
more
than
180
days.
That
is
because.
L
A
A
I
mean
you
can't
build
them.
Yes,
I
mean
a
lot
of
the
you
know.
Communication
we
get
around
tiny
homes.
Show
me
images
that
I
that
under
I
know
under
our
zoning
classification,
would
be
considered
accessory
dwelling
unit.
If
you
were
to
put
it
in
the
back
yard
of
a
of
a
you
know
the
back
half
of
a
lot
of
the
current
home
correct.
So.
A
L
Allow
small
homes
there
is
no
obstacle
there.
However,
when
people
refused
the
term
tiny
homes,
they
are
typically
referring
to
tiny
homes
that
are
constructed
without
any
safety
inspections
or
anything
on
a
flatbed
trailer,
and
that
trailer
is
portable
and
movable
and
mobile.
And
when
that
happens,
that
is
not
then.
A
N
I
mean
maybe
it's
worth
mentioning
at
this
point:
was
it
just
Saturday?
A
week
ago,
three
of
us
vice
mayor,
Whistler
and
Councilman
Haynes
and
I,
went
down
and
did
a
tour
of
the
simple
life
development
in
Henderson
County,
which
is
a
it
is
a
tiny
homes
on
wheels
development.
It
is
all
tiny
homes
on
wheels.
Now
they
have
pulled
the
wheels
up,
so
they
are
considered
under
well.
N
It
all
seems
a
bit
skating,
the
line,
but
the
wheels
are
not
actually
touching
the
ground,
so
they
they
are
considered
at
that
point
tiny
homes,
but
we
did
learn
a
lot
about
how
they
are
regulated
by
the
DA
are
regulated
by
the
DMV
as
a
manufacturer
as
a
manufactured
home,
you
you,
you
get
a
loan,
you
get
a
personal
property
loan,
not
a
real
estate
loan
to
buy
one
of
these
things.
It's
it's
very.
It's
very
challenging
to
think
about
how
we
might
do
that
here.
N
N
The
fact
that
we
already
have
excuse
me
I
have
a
bit
of
a
cold
that
we
already
have
areas
designated
for
recreational
vehicles
that
could
be
used
for
this
I
think
we
I
think
there
is
a
strong
interest
in
wanting
to
in
wanting
the
staff
to
figure
this
out,
I
think
for
us.
The
interest
was
really
figuring
out,
as
some
of
the
speakers
have
said
how
this
can
fit
into
our
affordability
issue
at
simple
life,
those
units
and
to
be
clear.
These
are
units
that
can
be
bought
for
a
hundred
and
twenty
five
thousand
dollars.
N
So
super
super
low
price,
nothing
that
we
ever
see
here,
but
down
there
they're
being
bought
by
relatively
I'm,
just
going
to
call
them
relatively
wealthy
retirees
who
are
paying
cash.
That's
not
what
that's
not
the
audience
we're
interested
in
serving
here,
so
we
would
have
to,
in
addition
to
figuring
out
how
we
deal
with
the
DMV
regs
and
actually
make
it
housing
and
make
them
permanent.
N
We
also
would
have
to
figure
out
how
to
ensure
that
that
whatever
zoning
we
put
in
place
was
driving
them
to
be
affordable
for
the
people
that
we
know
in
our
community
want
them
to
be
affordable,
and
so
no
one
has
figured
this
out,
but
I
think
we
I
think
we
are
committed
to
doing
that
and
I
I
believe.
It
is
my
understanding
that
this
is.
N
A
To
share
that,
anyway,
you
know
just
confusingly,
while
that's
happening.
The
request
tonight
is
specifically
regarding
a
rezoning
and
highway
business.
Zoning
district.
So
that's
kind
of
a
different
question.
If
you,
if
you
do
figure
out
how
to
accommodate
the
use
in
your
city,
then
we're
right
and
and
and
this
is
proposing
highway
business,
so
any
district.
So,
okay!
So
now
that
we've
had
the
many
clarifications,
is
there
anyone
else
wishing
to
speak
on
this
item?
M
I'll
start
by
thanking
Council
and
staff
for
working
on
this
issue,
and
your
questions
are
good.
Why
are
we
talking
about
the
highway
business
owning
districts,
because
that's
the
only
thing
that
I
can
bring
before
you
I'm
moving
this
forward
in
the
most
expeditious
way
that
I
am
able
to
as
a
citizen,
and
that
happens
to
be
through
this
process
because,
six
months
ago,
several
of
the
things
that
we
have
accomplished
in
the
last
six
months,
I
was
told,
were
not
possible,
so
we'll
get
to
that
in
just
one.
M
Second
again,
my
name
is
drew
Crawford,
DIY,
tiny.
The
DIY
aspect
of
it
is
because
I
want
people
to
build
their
homes
safely
and
I
want
them
to
truly
be
homes.
I
started
kind
of
as
a
habitat
kid.
My
mother
was
the
president
of
the
local
habitat
chapter
and
so
I
got
to
experience
what
constructing
and
being
in
a
home
smaller
than
the
one
that
I
grew
up
in
felt
like,
and
that
was
important.
I
then
traveled
and
really
saw
how
other
people
live,
and
what
do
we
value
in
the
spaces?
M
I
work
as
a
consultant
and
I
had
the
opportunity
in
14
to
take
my
extra
time
and
build
myself
a
tiny
home
and
I
asked
myself
the
question
I'm
using
my
privilege
and
my
opportunity
to
do
this.
What
can
I
do
for
others
and
the
only
tools
available
to
me
in
2015
was
a
campground,
so
that
is
the
tool
that
I
utilized
we
built
the
campground
in
15
had
all
the
building
inspections.
Then
they
had
the
zoning
folks
come
through
in
17
and
kind
of
we're
thought
we're
in
good
shape
zoning
change
in
18.
M
That
brings
us
these
conversations
now.
The
real
piece
is
about
opportunity.
I
spent
three
years
trying
to
bring
this
to
DSD,
pnz
public
presentations
and,
frankly,
until
I
put
my
own
property
at
risk.
This
conversation
didn't
move
forward
and
what
we're
really
fundamentally
asking
for
is
formalization
and
normalization
of
what
it
means
to
live
in
a
smaller
space
when
there's
ten
of
them
they're
cute,
when
a
hundred
of
them,
we
start
asking
questions
when
there's
a
thousand
of
them.
M
M
How
did
we
get
here
and
what's
next
tiny
homes
on
wheels
mobile,
tiny
homes
are
possible
in
the
state
of
North
Carolina
we
sat
down
with
DSD
pingzhi
Shannon
tuck
was
able
to
get
everybody
in
the
same
room
and
that
made
all
of
the
difference,
and
what
we
were
able
to
recognize
is
that
the
DOI
Department
of
Insurance
Office
of
State
Fire
Marshal
in
2015,
issued
a
memo.
My
architect
said
you
know
we
can
take
this
thing
and
put
it
on
a
foundation.
M
This
is
a
dwelling
unit
and
we
even
had
clarifications
in
2019
this
this
year
to
deal
with
this
hole
which
you
guys
saw
down.
Simple
life
are
both
the
true
on
wheels,
but
also
these
dual
labeled
model
units
that
are
both
modular
and
RV.
So
this
is
one
of
the
things
we
were
able
to
recognize
just
last
month
through
this
process,
so
affordable
housing
is
complicated
and
tiny
houses
are
messy
and
we're
just
going
to
give
you
a
very
quick
history.
So
we
understand
how
do
we
get
to
this
point,
but
we
built
a
car.
M
What
did
we
do
with
a
car?
We
took
it
into
the
woods
to
go
camping.
Well
then,
when
there
were
10
people
that
was
fine,
then
there
were
a
hundred
people
in
cities
said
hey.
This
is
a
sanitation
and
a
water
issue,
so
cities
started
providing
places
for
people
to
park
and
they
would
provide
sanitation
there
provide
water.
M
Then
we
had
the
depression
and
people
lived
where
they
could
live
where
they
could
afford
to
live.
They
did
what
they
had
to
do
and
said.
He
said:
that's
not
so
cool
anymore.
We're
gonna
have
to
start
drawing
lines,
we're
gonna
have
to
start
saying.
You
can
only
stay
there
for
180
days
at
a
time,
so
we
went
through
a
period
of
time
where
we
started
having
temporary
assigned
to
things
after
the
war.
We
had
a
building
boom.
M
Again
there
weren't
regulations
in
place
and
people
were
building
houses
as
fast
as
they
could
and
they
didn't
meet
safety
standards
and
so
the
70s
we
made
safety
standards
and
we
decided
that
they
should
be
8
feet
wide
and
40
feet
long.
That
is
the
smallest
unit
that
HUD
can
can
regulate,
and
that's
why
facture
homes
all
look
like
hotdogs,
because
that
is
what
we
decided
in
the
seventies
where
they
were
allowed
to
regulate
since
that's
what
they
were
allowed
to
regulate.
That's
what
was
built.
M
You
can
do
voluntary
compliance
and
there
are
exemptions
for
things
under
400
square
feet
and
that's
where
RVs
came
from
and
that's
where
tiny
houses
are
using,
the
rules
that
are
available
to
us,
but
yeah
we're
in
Asheville
people
like
to
be
creative,
with
their
solutions
that
were
given
now
here's
your
wall
of
text.
This
is
what
we're
having
to
work
through
right
now
to
understand
what
does
it
mean
to
make
tiny
houses
work?
It's
messy
go
to
the
bottom
line:
dual
labeled,
modular
and
RV
at
399
square
feet.
M
M
So,
what's
next,
this
conversation
about
scale
in
size,
undrawn
lines
and,
of
course,
affordable
housing
and
the
obstacles
to
affordable
housing.
Zoning
and
I
want
to
say
yes
to
the
young
bees.
Yes,
I
want
this
in
my
backyard.
What
we
need
Council
to
direct
staff,
we
need
to
empower
the
staff
to
write
the
rules
to
say
yes
to
people.
M
Size
and
scope
we're
really
talking
about
when
we
talk
about
ad
use.
The
reason
you
see
ad
use
in
front
of
you
is
because
you
have
written
rules
for
ad
use
that
have
smaller
setbacks.
I
want
to
build
small
units
if
I
use
the
rules
for
ad
use,
they
have
smaller
setbacks,
different
size,
different
scope,
characteristics.
These
are
some
of
the
things
that
we're
beginning
to
have
the
conversations
about
pocket.
Neighborhoods
was
written
a
few
years
ago,
expanding
where
redraw
the
lines
draw
the
line,
so
we
can
do
pocket,
neighborhoods
and
all
appropriate
area.
M
M
So
here's
the
ask
here
are
the
three
pieces
that
you
saw:
an
email,
one
recognize
the
size
and
scope
matter,
have
the
conversation
about
a
tea
use
and
where
you
can
put
cottage
developments
to
the
construct
of
residential
campground
right.
The
special
use
District
rules
for
campgrounds,
because
that's
the
infrastructure
that
is
needed
for
small
things
but
write
the
rules,
so
he
put
the
right
units
in
the
right
spaces
and
the
third
to
really
address
affordable
housing.
We
use
tiny
houses
as
a
bridge
between
a
rental
and
ownership.
M
M
J
M
Just
to
provide
you
a
little
bit
more
detail
as
we
go
through
here.
Hud
bottom
line
in
this
one
HUD
in
2019
clarified
their
ruling
for
the
HUD
exemption,
meaning
we
want
nothing
to
do
and
we
can't
do
anything
with
under
400
square
foot
dwelling
units.
That's
for
the
states,
that's
for
the
local
municipalities.
You
guys
have
a
role
to
play
in
this.
You
can
write
the
rules
because
HUD
doesn't
want
to
have
anything
to
do
it
that
we
know
how
to
handle
the
building
code
rules
at
the
state
level.
M
I
just
I
talk
about
this
as
non
discriminatory
zoning,
which
is
basically
don't
write,
rules
that
prevent
people
from
living
where
they
want
to
live
way
as
long
as
is
safe,
the
construct
of
a
campground
is
not
needed
anymore.
We're
just
you
again,
utilizing
that
as
the
descriptor
for
the
size
of
space
for
building
bills,
infill
and
all
of
those
other
pieces
we've
talked
about,
but
I
want
to
really
land
on
this
slide,
which
I
had
a
manager.
M
This
is
her
slide
from
the
affordable
housing
workshop
where
she
really
identified
all
of
these
pieces,
where
policy
comes
into
place
with
community,
so
that
we
can
actually
make
change
happen,
because
this
is
an
economic
issue.
This
is
a
race
issue.
This
is
a
political
issue
because
we
are
not
creating
the
spaces
that
are
needed
for
people
to
live
in
the
south.
M
C
A
U
L
Small
homes,
very
small
homes
we,
the
city
of
Asheville,
does
not
have
a
minimum
size
requirement
for
a
home.
That
is
not
it.
Some
cities
do
Asheville
does
not.
We
have
neither
a
minimum
nor
maximum
size
requirement
in
Nashville.
What
we
do
require
is
that
if
you
live
in
it
for
more
than
180
days,
that
it
either
be
one
built
under
the
North,
Carolina,
State,
Building
Code,
or
to
be
certified
through
HUDs
program,
and
that
ensures
that
the
unit
is
safe,
its
met
all
the
safety
requirements
for
permanent
housing.
L
Anything
else
is
regulated
under
the
DMV
or
in
some
other
form,
and
does
not
meet
the
standard
for
housing.
If
there's
interest
you
know,
a
campground
is
generally
regarded
as
a
recreational
form
of
lodging.
That
is
a
very
different
kind
of
conversation.
Much
of
what's
being
talked
about
today,
as
it
relates
to
tiny
homes,
has
to
do
with
the
building
code.
It's
not
a
zoning
question.
As
I
said
earlier,
we
have
the
zoning
tools
tools
available
to
allow
small
home
communities.
L
We
already
broadly
allow
small
home
communities
either
through
our
cottage
home
standards,
our
multifamily
zoning
districts,
all
of
our
commercial
districts
allow
for
what
is
sort
of
a
cottage
small
home
community,
that's
already
broadly
allowed
in
Asheville.
It
just
has
to
be
built
under
one
of
these
two
certification
inspection
programs.
Thank
you
well,.
N
N
But
I
previewed
that,
for
you,
so
I
would
very
much
like
for
staff
to
continue
to
take
a
look
at
this
I
do
think
it's
a
combination
of
zoning
and
DSD
and
and
affordable
I
think
it's.
Those
three
departments
need
to
be
involved
in
this
conversation
and
and
and
I
would
like
it
to
move
forward.
I'm
not
I,
know,
there's
a
lot
on
everybody's
plate
right
now,
so
I'm
not
gonna
be
specific
about
the
timeframe
within
which
that
moves
forward,
but
I
do
think
it
is
an
option
that
we
need
to
explore.
N
If
we
are
ever
I
mean
it
is
an,
it
is
a
new
option
for
affordability.
There
are
a
lot
still
lots
of
questions
about
it.
It's
not
clear
that
these
homes
appreciate
so
it's
not
clear
that
it
gets
at
the
the
building
wealth
aspect
that
councilman
young
continues
to
talk
about
and
is
very
important,
but
it
is
a
model
that
we
just
don't
have
right
now
and
and
I
we
in
my
view,
we
have
not
exported
enough
to
to
to
set
it
aside.
It's
something
that
we
don't
want
so.
B
Several
times,
we've
I
think
there's
there's
quite
a
few
of
us
up
here
who
who
want
to
see
something
move
forward
in
some
kind
of
way
in
a
cohesive
way.
I
think
your
creativity
and
getting
in
front
of
us
to
make
this
thing
work
will
push
here
is
issue
forward
a
bit.
Hopefully
I,
don't
know
what
the
timeframe
is
going
to
be,
but
it
would
be
my
hope
that
we
can
see
something
come
out
of
it
and
I
think
you
have
some
support.
I,
don't
know
where
everybody
else
stands.
I'll
just
speak
for
myself.
B
A
I
would
agree
with
that
I
see,
we've
got
an
email
from
the
tiny-house
Industry
Association
director
of
government
relations.
Maybe
they
are
a
resource
to
help
guide
a
city
through
this
I
mean
it
is
kind
of
interesting,
the
evolution
that
cities
have
gone
through,
because
many
cities
have
zoned
out
mobile
home
parks
and
mobile
homes,
of
course,
are
mostly
regulated
by
the
DMV.
They
are
titled
by
the
DMV
they
depreciate
in
value
and
and
they
do,
they
don't
create
density.
A
That
cities
are
looking
for
a
firm,
a
zoning
perspective,
and
this
is
on
paper
really
no
different.
A
tiny
home
on
wheels
is
a
DMV
titled
mobile
home
and
which
depreciate
some
value
most
likely
and
where
you
pay
lot,
rent
and
so
I
think
we've
got
a
little
ways
to
go
before.
We
fully
understand
how
how
and
whether
it's
a
good
idea
to
reincorporate
that
model
under
this
new
look.
This
new
feel
feels
very
contemporary.
A
It
looks
contemporary,
but
is
it
you
know
in
my
mind,
you
know
I
think
we
need
to
understand
how
how
will
make
sense
to
move
back
in
that
direction
under
this
new
new
format,
and
that
may
be
the
case.
I,
don't
I,
don't
know
enough
about
about
it,
one
way
or
the
other
to
say,
but
I'm
glad
we're.
Looking
at
the
possibility,
I
see
you're
getting
up
and
walking
towards
us.
So.
M
A
M
To
the
degree
that
you
wanted
to
be
a
conversation,
the
fundamental
difference
between
a
manufactured
home,
which
we
think
of
as
mobile
homes
and
the
modular
home
modular,
meets
North
Carolina
building
code
manufactured
operates
and
uses
the
HUD
code
they're
two
entirely
separate
pathways
in
terms
of
what
they're
expected
to
be.
For
me,
this
is
really
putting
the
mobile
tiny
home
so
that
you
can
have
the
control
over
a
code
built
house
that
you
can
move.
M
A
F
Moved
to
deny
the
proposed
awarding
amendments
to
article
8
of
the
you
do
and
find
that
the
proposed
amendments
are
inconsistent
with
the
city's
comprehensive
plan,
in
that
one
campgrounds
to
find
his
areas
for
temporary
occupancy
for
recreational
use
are
not
consistent
with
the
vision
for
urban
corridors
and
to
accessory
dwelling
units
which
generally
accompany
low-density.
Single-Family
development
are
not
consistent
with
the
support
of
commercial
development
encouraged
in
the
highway
business
zone
and
therefore
the
action
to
deny
is
reasonable
and
in
the
public
interest.
Second,.
A
That
concludes
the
public
hearings
portion
of
our
agenda.
As
I
mentioned
earlier,
we
have.
We
are
withdrawing
the
1
item
under
new
business,
that
being
a
resolution
amending
the
city
of
Asheville
is
land
use,
incentive
grant
policy
which
we
will
see,
hopefully
in
January
I
have
a
number
of
people
that
are
signed
up
to
speak
tonight.
So
this
works
much
like
the
public
hearing
portion
of
our
agenda
when
I
call
your
name.
You'll
have
three
minutes
to
speak
and
just
watch
the
lights
on
the
lecterns
for
your
indicators.
There.
C
V
V
If
y'all
can
all
see
that
good
evening,
my
name
is
Jody
Williams
I'm,
a
native
to
Asheville
and
one
of
the
founding
members
of
Health
Asheville
Bears,
help
Asheville
Bears
is
here
tonight
to
bring
your
attention
to
a
historic,
tragic
event,
affecting
at
least
a
dozen
black
bears
in
a
25
mile
radius
and
around
Asheville
four
months
ago.
A
bear
that
I
and
my
family
knew
by
the
name
of
peaches.
V
A
mother
with
three
cubs
disappeared
near
the
cliffs
community
in
Arden,
when
peaches
reappeared
four
weeks
later
on
August
18th,
her
Cubs
were
with
her,
but
she
was
missing
her
front
rack
for
lamb
and
powell
from
the
elbow
down
her
cubs
looked
healthy,
but
peaches
had
lost
significant
weight
was
extremely
skittish
and
struggling
to
get
around.
All
that
knew
her
as
a
healthy
and
happy
bear
were
devastated
by
her
injury.
V
A
few
days
later,
a
local
media
outlet
ran
a
story
about
affair
with
a
missing
limb,
and
when
we
learned
it
was
a
different
bear
than
our
peaches.
That's
when
we
knew
human
interference
was
maiming,
bears
and
helped.
Asheville
Bears
was
born
in
less
than
four
months.
The
help
Asheville
Bears
Facebook
page
has
grown
to
over
68,000
followers
and
coverages.
These
tragic
events
have
reached
an
international
audience.
Colonel
Scotty
Morgan
and
his
wife
Carol
have
pledged
a
$50,000
reward
for
any
information
leading
to
the
arrest
and
conviction
of
whoever
is
harming
our
bears.
V
With
the
help
of
our
followers
we
have
now
12
confirmed
individual
bears,
five
of
which
are
mothers
with
Cubs,
with
unusual
amputation,
injuries
in
a
cluster
in
and
around
Asheville.
Nowhere
else
on
earth
has
there
ever
been
this
many
bears
with
amputation
injuries
in
such
a
small
area,
with
the
help
of
several
veterinary
and
wildlife
fix
for
experts,
including
a
forensic
veterinary
pathologist
from
the
University
of
Florida.
We
know
that
these
excruciating,
when
we
painful
debility
amputation,
injuries,
were
caused
by
a
snare
trap
or
a
ligature.
V
W
Good
evening
my
name
is
Teresa
Neumann
I'm
here
on
behalf
of
help
Asheville
Bears
I'm
sure
that
you
all
would
agree
that,
no
matter
what
level
of
compassion
someone
may
have
for
a
wild
life
that
the
majority
of
Asheville
citizens
would
be
horrified
that
the
black
bears
in
our
community
are
being
tortured
and
mutilated
by
illegal.
Bear
traps
specifically
snare
traps.
Ironically,
it's
not
illegal
to
sell,
bear
traps
online
or
in
local
retail
stores,
but
it
is
against
the
law
in
North
Carolina.
To
set
these
traps.
W
You
may
wonder
why
anyone
would
commit
such
a
heinous
crime
against
black
bears.
Well,
the
answer
is
for
money.
There's
a
booming
black
market
trade
for
live,
bears,
dead,
bears
and
bear
parts
in
Asia
and
predominantly
in
China.
Even
though
it's
against
the
law
bear
poacher
bear
poaching
operations
are
occurring
right
now
in
Western,
North
Carolina.
W
The
twelve
bears
with
amputated
limbs
that
Jodi
mentioned
are
just
the
ones
that
we
know
about
there
are,
god
knows
how
many
other
bears
that
in
the
Asheville
area
that
have
been
maimed
or
killed
by
bear.
Poachers
with
that
said,
bears
with
amputated.
Paws
and
legs
can
survive,
but
they
struggle
on
a
daily
basis
to
hop
on
a
mountainous
wooded
terrain
to
forage
for
food,
especially
in
the
spring,
to
protect
themselves
and
their
cubs
and
while
handicapped
to
survive
hunting
season.
I
hope.
W
The
council
will
also
agree
that
the
person's
harming
these
bears
in
our
community
must
be
held
responsible.
Not
only
is
very
poaching
and
illegal
bear
traps
cruel
and
inhumane.
It
is
against
the
law
and
it
must
be
stopped
in
our
city
and
surrounding
areas.
The
members
of
help
Asheville
Bears
spent
months
trying
to
convince
the
North
Carolina
Wildlife
Commission
that
these
amputations
were
not
caused
by
car
strikes.
It
was
obvious
to
us
and
it
was
confirmed
by
wildlife
experts
and
forensic
veterinarians.
W
So,
thankfully,
now
the
North
Carolina
Wildlife
investigators
have
finally
started
an
investigation,
but
we
need
your
help
again.
Respectfully.
The
help
Asheville
bears
is
requesting
that
the
city
council
liaison
with
the
state
attorney
general's
office
and
the
North
Carolina
Wildlife
Commission
to
convict
the
person's
committing
these
atrocious
crimes
against
the
black
bears
of
our
community.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
X
Hi,
my
name
is
Sarah
Stroupe
I
am
the
mother
of
three
Abbi
fiance
and
I
am
The
Caretaker
to
my
fiance.
He
was
a
veteran
for
21
years,
actually
20
years,
9
months
and
14
days,
but
who's
counting.
We
all
have
this
community
has
come
together
and
there
are
a
lot
of
care
givers.
We
have
over
5,500
veterans
just
in
the
city
of
Asheville.
Those
people
need
help
and
those
are
those
caregivers.
X
We
are
always
working
with
the
VA
and
today
even
I
spent
the
day
and
kept
any
roadblocks
at
the
roadblock
frustration
after
frustration,
so
I
have
provided
the
resolution
for
the
Elizabeth
Dole,
hidden
hero,
city
and
I
request
that
you
make
Asheville
a
hidden
hero
city.
This
way
we
will
be
able
to
put
local
and
national
resources
together
and
caregivers
can
get
with
other
caregivers.
The
VA
is
overloaded,
they've
had
one
thing
after
another,
but
the
Elizabeth
Dole
foundation.
She
has
made
the
difference.
She
I,
don't
know.
X
X
This
will
also
connect
I
know
in
2007,
mayor
Bellamy
created
the
mayor's
committee
for
Veteran
Affairs,
and
she
serves
as
a
local
organization
that
helps
Linda
Skye
regional
council
offers
caregiver
programs,
the
VA
and
then
the
other
counties.
We
all
need
to
come
together
to
support
the
caregivers
in
October
we
had
quite
a
month.
Not
only
are
we
dealing
with
normal
things,
I'm
a
mother
of
three
like
said:
I
had
to
hand
surgeries
trouble
tunnel
the
first
week
the
State
Employees
Credit
Union
was
hacked
and
our
accounts
were
wiped
out.
X
Two
weeks
later,
our
washer
breaks
the
night.
Before
Halloween
we
have
a
roof
leak.
All
I'm
trying
to
deal
with
worst
disabilities
and
dealing
with
the
Begay
and
trying
to
set
up
everything
mark
would
be
going
to
Colorado
to
the
TBI
Marcus
Institute
for
brain
health.
I
had
the
opportunity
meeting
Gary
Sinise.
He
also
works
foundation
along
with
Tom
Hanks,
and
we
are
going
to
be
able
to
go
out
there.
X
N
A
N
Y
W
N
C
A
A
C
A
A
R
Hello,
everyone
I'm
Sarah,
Benoit
and
tonight
I'm
here
to
talk
about
the
importance
of
declaring
a
climate
emergency
in
the
city
of
Asheville
as
a
local
citizen,
I've
worked
with
a
number
of
groups,
including
community
roots,
the
sunrise
movement,
Asheville
and
extinction
rebellion
and,
as
I'm
sure,
you've
all
come
to
now.
I
firmly
believe
in
the
importance
of
Asheville
stepping
into
a
more
innovative
leadership
role
in
the
state
of
North
Carolina
and
on
the
national
stage.
R
I
believe
our
state
is
home
to
a
majority
of
residents
that
are
underrepresented
or
sometimes
not
represented
at
all
when
it
comes
to
our
state
politics
and
the
only
way
that
this
changes
is,
if
we
begin
to
think
differently
and
take
actions
to
transform
the
direction
of
our
state
on
the
local
level.
I
know
this
shift
presents
many
seemingly
insurmountable
challenges
and
obstacles
along
the
way,
but
a
disappointment
on
science.
There
is
actually
no
easy
road
ahead
for
us
and
I
truly
believe
in
my
heart.
The
shift
is
possible
if
we
act
now.
R
One
of
the
actions
that
we
can
take
as
a
city
is
to
declare
a
real
climate
emergency
and
set
some
goals
in
standards
in
our
city
that
might
be
outside
of
what
the
state
of
North
Carolina
allows
and
what
the
federal
government
says
is
possible
and
what
Duke
Energy
would
like
us
to
do.
The
truth
is
the
old
ways
of
doing
things
haven't
worked.
All
of
our
good
intentions
have
led
to
the
worst
crisis
in
human
history
and
the
destruction
of
so
much
life
by
our
hands.
R
It
will
take
nothing
less
than
a
total
reengineering
of
our
way
of
life
to
solve
the
problem.
I
believe
this
is
still
possible,
but
only
if
our
leaders,
you
speak
clearly
and
courageously
about
our
way
forward.
I
know
change,
won't
happen
overnight.
I
know
that
we'll
all
make
sacrifices
I
know
that
we'll
all
struggle,
but
we
must
change
if
we
want
to
have
a
future
to
look
towards
and
if
we
want
to
preserve
the
beautiful
magical,
incredible
land
that
we
have
the
to
live
on.
R
A
A
P
Hi
again
I'm
Sal
items
with
the
sunrise
movement,
and
today
we
are
here
to
reprimand
the
council's
inability
to
pass
a
climate
emergency
resolution.
As
written
when
we
were
told
to
work
with
Stacey.
All
of
the
substantive
measures
and
urgent
timelines
were
stripped
from
the
resolution
and
we
were
left
with
only
optics.
The
resolution
drafted
by
Stacey
would
allow
Council
to
appear
as
though
they
are
taking
action
when,
in
fact
it
is
nowhere
near
sufficient
to
take
on
the
scale
of
the
climate
crisis.
P
We
have
written
a
response
resolution
that
includes
clear
timelines
and
required
reports
back
to
hold
the
city
accountable,
and
we
urge
you
to
bring
this
resolution
to
a
vote
on
December
10th
following
the
next
American
climate
strike
on
December
6.
We
have
been
at
many
council
meetings
in
the
past
year
and
have
been
met
with
hostility
and
condescension.
We
realize
that
you
are
not
interested
in
listening
to
us,
so
maybe
you
will
listen
to
leading
climate
journalist,
Naomi
Klein.
She
recently
released
a
new
book
on
fire,
the
burning
case
for
a
green
new
deal.
P
Today,
young
people
will
be
using
their
public
comment
to
read.
You
pertinent
passages
from
Naomi
Klein's
book
in
an
effort
to
evoke
a
sense
of
empathy
and
responsibility
in
you,
our
representatives.
Every
decision
you
make
on
council
should
be
made,
while
considering
the
massive
scale
of
the
issue
at
hand.
We
have
been
told
by
the
world's
greatest
scientists
who
historically
give
understated
and
conservative
predictions
that
we
have
only
10
years
left.
We
are
running
out
of
time
today.
P
A
new
UN
report
stated
that
we
must
keep
our
rising
temperatures
below
2
degrees,
Celsius,
and
we
are
on
trajectory
to
be
up
3.9
degrees
Celsius
by
2100.
We
have
been
pushed
into
other
committees
and
made
to
jump
through
bureaucratic
hoops.
It
is
clear
that
you
intend
to
push
aside
the
most
important
issue
of
our
time
and
disregard
our
concerns
for
our
futures
and
our
livelihoods.
P
We
will
not
stop
fighting
for
radical
climate
action
because
we
know
it
is
right
when
I
am
on
my
deathbed,
which
may
be
sooner
than
I'd
like
because
of
this
crisis.
I
will
never
wish
I
had
done
less
to
help
save
the
planet
for
the
people,
I
love
and
the
places
I
call
home
I
will
only
wish
I
had
done
more.
We
are
giving
you
the
opportunity
to
do
more
right
now,
vote
to
pass
the
climate
emergency
resolution.
P
We
have
written
and
proved
that
you
care
about
my
future
and
the
future
of
all
the
youth
standing
behind
me
and
the
future
of
your
own
children.
The
youth
of
America
and
of
the
world
are
tired
of
being
told.
It
is
our
job
to
clean
up
the
mess
that
was
made
before
we
were
even
here
to
add
to
it,
but
we
have
been
given
no.
C
P
Z
Hi,
my
name
is
Flannery
Clarke
and
I'm
with
the
sunrise
movement
today.
My
comment
is
to
ask
that
you
pass
the
climate
emergency
resolution
that
sunrise
has
presented
as
written
and
vote
on
it
on
December
10th
me
following
the
December
6
Asheville
climate
strike.
This
is
a
passion
passage
from
Naomi
Klein's
book
on
fire
to
convey
the
urgency
of
this
issue.
It's.
Z
C
Z
As
our
crisis
runs
sound,
an
equally
deep
is
also
shifting
and
with
a
speed
that
startles
me
as
I
write
these
words.
It
is
not
only
our
planet
that
is
on
fire,
so
are
the
social
movements
rising
up
to
declare
from
below
an
emergency?
In
addition
to
the
wildfire
of
student
strikes,
we
have
seen
the
rise
of
extinction,
rebellion
which
exploded
on
the
scene
and
kicked
off
a
wave
of
non-violent
direct
action
and
civil
disobedience,
including
a
mass
shutdown
of
large
parts
of
central
London
extinction.
Z
Italian
is
calling
on
governments
to
treat
climate
change
as
an
emergency
to
rapidly
transition
to
a
hundred
percent
renewable
energy
in
line
with
the
climate
science
and
to
dramatically
develop
the
plan
for
how
to
implement
that
transition
through
citizen's
assembly
within
days
of
its
most
dramatic
actions
in
April,
2008,
South,
Wales
and
Scotland.
Both
declared
a
state
of
client
emergency
and
British
Parliament
under
pressure
from
opposition
parties,
quickly
followed
suit.
In
this
same
period.
C
Z
Powerful
Democrat
in
Washington
DC
one
week
after
her
party
had
appointed
the
elected
one,
the
majority
in
the
election.
We
see
men
time
of
congratulations.
The
Sunrisers
accused
the
party
of
having
no
plan
to
respond
to
the
climate
emergency.
They
called
our
Congress
to
immediately
adopt
a
rapid
decarbonisation
framework.
One.
Z
I
Z
The
equation
completely,
though
many
of
the
efforts
just
described
were
large:
they
still
engage
primarily
with
self-identified
umber
and
climate
activists
if
they
did
reach
beyond
those
circles,
the
engagement
was
rarely
sustained
for
more
than
a
single
march
for
a
pipeline
fight
outside
the
climate
movement.
There
was
still
a
way
that
the
planetary
crisis
could
be
forgotten
for
months.
On
end
torko
barely
mentioned
during
the
window
election
campaigns,
our
current
movement
is
markedly
different,
and
the
reason
for
that
is
twofold.
Z
Z
Climate
change
requires
that
you
break
every
rule
in
the
free-market
playbook
and
we
do
so
with
great
urgency.
We
don't
have
to
rebuild
the
public
sphere,
repr,
reverse
privatizations.
We
localized
large
parts
of
economies
scale
back
over
consumptions,
bringing
back
long
term
planning.
How
do
you
regulate
Thank,
You.
O
C
O
Name
is
Rachel
and
I
am
here
the
Sun
rises
met.
My
common
today
is
to
ask
that
you
pass
the
climate
emergency
resolution
that
sunrise
has
presented
as
written
and
vote
on
it
December
at
the
December
10th
meeting
following
the
December
6th
Asheville
climate
strike.
This
is
a
passage
from
Naomi
Klein's
book
on
fire
to
convey
the
urgency
of
this
vote.
O
One
month
before
the
Sun
rises
occupied
the
soon-to-be
House
Speaker
Nancy
Pelosi
office,
the
UN
Intergovernmental
Panel
on
Climate
Change,
published
report
that
had
a
greater
impact
than
any
publication
in
the
31
year,
history
of
the
Nobel
Peace
Prize
winning
organization.
The
report
examined
the
implications
of
keeping
the
increase
in
planetary
warming
below
1.5
degrees
Celsius.
Given
the
worsening
disasters
that
we
are
already
seeing
about,
1
Celsius
degree
of
warming
is
found
that
keeping
temperatures
below
1.5
threshold
is
humanity's
best
chance
to
avoid
truly
catastrophic
unraveling.
O
What
is
needed.
The
report
summary
states
in
its
first
sentence
is
rapid,
far-reaching,
unprecedented
changes
in
all
aspects
of
society.
This
was
not
the
first
terrifying
climate
report
by
any
means,
nor
the
first
unequivocal
call
from
respected
scientists
for
radical
emission
reduction.
My
bookshelves
are
crowded
with
these
findings,
but
like
Greta
tun
Berg
speeches,
the
starkness
of
the
IPCC's
called
for
root
and
branch,
tidal
change
and
the
shortness
of
the
timeline,
and
it
laid
out
for
pulling
it
off.
O
Focus
the
public
mind
like
nothing
before
a
big
part
of
that
has
to
do
with
the
source
after
governments
came
together
to
recognize
the
threat
of
global
warming
in
1988,
the
United
Nations
created
the
IPCC
to
provide
policymakers
with
the
most
reliable
information
possible
to
inform
their
decisions.
For
this
reason,
the
panel
synthesizes
all
the
best
science
to
come
up
with
the
projections
that
a
great
many
scientists
need
to
agree
on
anything
before
it
is
made
public
and
even
then,
and
can
go
out
before
the
government's
themselves
sign
off.
Because
of
this
laborious
process.
O
Ipcc
projections
have
been
notorious,
notoriously
conservative,
often
dangerous
dangerously
under
estimating
risk,
and
yet
here
was
a
report
drawing
on
some
6,000
sources,
created
by
nearly
100
authors
and
review
editors,
saying
in
no
uncertain
terms
that
if
governments
did
as
little
to
cut
emissions
as
they
were
currently
pledging
to
do,
they
were
headed
toward
consequences,
including
sea-level
rise.
That
would
swallow
coastal
cities,
the
total
die-off
of
coral
reefs
and
droughts
that
would
wipe
out
crops
in
huge
parts
of
the
globe.
O
Today's
high
school
students
will
still
be
in
their
20s
when
global
emissions
need
to
have
already
cut
in
half
to
avoid
those
outcomes,
and
yet
with
fateful
decisions
about
whether
those
cuts
will
happen,
decisions
that
will
shape
their
entire
lives
are
being
made
well
before
most
of
them
even
have
the
right
to
vote.
It
was
against
this
backdrop
that
2019
s,
cascade
of
law
of
large
and
militant
climate
mobilizations
unfolded
again
and
again
at
strikes
and
protests.
We
heard
the
words
we
only
have
12
years.
O
C
Y
My
name
is
Emerson
and
I'm
here
with
the
sunrise
movement.
My
comment
today
is
to
ask
that
you
passed
the
climate
emergency
resolution
that
sunrise
has
presented
as
written
and
voted
on
it
at
the
December
December
10th
meeting
following
the
December
6th
Asheville
climate
strike.
This
is
a
passage
from
Naomi
Klein's
book
on
fire
to
convey
the
urgency
of
this
vote.
The
rapidly
escalating
quality
of
our
present
moment
cannot
be
overstated,
nor
can
the
long-term
damage
of
the
collective
psyche.
Y
Should
this
go
unchallenged
beneath
the
theater
of
some
governments
denying
climate
change
and
others
claiming
to
be
doing
something
about
it,
while
they
forretress
their
borders
from
its
effects.
There's
only
one
overarching
question
facing
us
and
the
rough
and
rocky
future
that
has
already
begun.
What
kind
of
people
are
we
going
to
be
will
be?
Will
we
share
what's
left
and
try
to
look
after
one
another,
or
are
we
instead
going
to
attempt
to
hoard?
What's
left
look
after
our
own
and
lock
everyone
else
out
in
this
time
of
rising
seas
and
rising
fascism?
Y
These
are
the
stark
choices
before
us.
There
are
options
besides
full-blown
climate
barbarism,
but
given
how
far
that
road,
given
how
far
down
that
road
we
are,
there's
no
point
pretending
that
they
are
easy.
It's
going
to
take
a
lot
more
than
a
carbon
tax
or
cap-and-trade.
It's
going
to
take
an
all-out
war
on
pollution
in
poverty
and
racism
and
colonialism
and
despair
all
at
the
same
time.
Y
Perhaps
most
importantly,
if
we
are
going
to
avoid
a
future
marked
by
more
brutal
scapegoating
of
the
most
vulnerable
and
blameless,
we
will
need
to
find
the
fortitude
to
go
head-to-head
with
the
powerful
players
that
bear
the
greatest
responsibility
for
the
climate
crisis
taking
on
the
fossil
fuel
sector
can
seem
impossibly
daunting.
It
has
unlimited
wealth
to
spend
lobbying
politicians
to
pass
draconian
laws
that
target
activists
and
to
purchase
public
relations,
advertisements
that
pollute
the
public
airwaves,
and
yet
this
sector
is
far
more
vulnerable
to
various
forms
of
pressure
than
it
first
appears.
Y
Once
you
have
done
your
homework
Greta
tune,
berg
says
you
realize
that
we
need
new
politics.
We
need
new
economics
where
everything
is
based
on
our
rapidly
declining
an
extremely
limited
carbon
budget.
But
that
is
not
enough.
We
need
a
whole
new
way
of
thinking.
We
must
stop
competing
with
each
other.
We
need
to
start
cooperating
and
sharing
the
remaining
resources
of
this
planet
in
a
fair
way,
because
our
house
is
on
fire.
This
should
come
as
no
surprise
built
on
false
promises,
discounted
futures.
Thank
you.
Y
AA
Hi,
my
name
is
Amir
echo
and
I
am
here
with
the
sunrise
movement.
My
comment
today
is
to
ask
you
to
pass
the
climate
emergency
resolution.
That
sunrise
is
presented
as
written
and
vote
to
vote
on
on
December
10th
at
the
meeting
following
the
December
6th
current
climate
strike.
This
is
a
passage
from
Naomi
Klein's
book
on
fire
to
convey
the
urgency
of
this
vote.
AA
Repairing
our
stuff
fearlessly,
repairing
our
relationships
with
our
countries
and
between
them.
We
must
always
remember
that
fossil
fuel
era
began
in
the
violent
kleptocracy,
with
two
foundational
thefts
of
stolen
people
and
stolen
land
that
kick-started
a
new
age
of
seemingly
endless
expansion.
The
route
to
a
new
renewal
runs
through
the
reckoning
and
repair
reckoning
with
our
past
and
repairing
the
relationships
with
the
people
who
paid
the
steepest
price
of
the
first
Industrial
Revolution.
These
failures
to
confront
difficult
truths
have
long
made
a
mockery
of
any
notion
of
a
collective.
AA
We
only
when
we
reckon
with
them
will
be.
Our
societies
will
be
liberated
to
find
our
collective
purpose.
In
fact,
the
delivering
that
sense
of
common
purpose
is
perhaps
the
green
New
Deal's
greatest
promise,
because
it
isn't
only
the
planets
life-support
system
that
are
unraveling
before
our
eyes.
So
too
is
our
social
fabric
on
so
many
friends
at
once,
the
signs
of
fracture
are
all
around
from
the
rise
of
fake
news
and
unhinged
conspiracy
theories
to
the
hardened
arteries
of
our
political
body.
AA
In
this
context,
a
green
new
deal
precisely
because
of
its
sweeping
scale,
ambition
and
urgency
could
be
the
collective
purpose
that
finally
helps
overcome.
Many
of
these
divides
it's
not
a
magic
cure
for
racism
or
misogyny
or
homophobia
or
transphobia.
We
still
have
to
confront
those
evils
head-on,
but
if
it
became
law,
despite
all
the
powers
arrayed
against
it,
it.
C
AA
Give
a
great
many
of
us
a
sense
of
working
together
towards
something
bigger
than
ourselves,
something
we're
all
a
part
of
creating,
and
it
would
give
us
a
shared
destination
somewhere
distinctly
better
than
where
we
are
now.
That
kind
of
shared
mission
is
something
our
late.
Capitalist
badly
needs
right
now
the
green
New
Deal.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
Grandma.
A
AB
Hi,
my
name
is
Graham
hall
and
I
am
here
at
the
sunrise
movement.
My
comment
today
is
to
ask
that
you
passed
the
climate
emergency
resolution.
That
sunrise
is
presented
as
written
and
voted
on
at
the
December
10th
meeting
following
a
December
6th
Asheville
climate
strike.
This
is
a
passage
from
Naomi
Klein's
book
on
fire
to
convey
the
urgency
of
this
vote.
The
hard
truth
is
that
the
answer
to
the
question:
what
can
I
as
an
individual,
do
to
stop
climate
change
is
nothing
you
can't
do
anything.
AB
In
fact,
the
very
idea
idea
that
we
as
autumn
eyes,
individuals
even
lots
of
autumn
eyes.
Individuals
could
play
a
significant
part
in
stabilizing
the
planet's
climate
system.
We're
changing
the
global
economy
is
objectively
nuts.
We
can
only
meet
this
tremendous
challenge
of
together
as
part
of
a
massive
and
organized
global
movement.
The
irony
is
that
people
with
relatively
little
power
tend
to
understand
this
far
better
than
those
with
a
great
deal
more
power.
AB
The
workers
I
met
in
Indonesia
and
the
Philippines
knew
all
too
well
that
governments
and
corporations
did
not
value
their
voice
or
even
the
lives
of
these
individuals,
and
because
of
this
they
were
driven
to
not
only
act
together,
but
on
rather
a
large
political
canvas
to
try
to
change
the
policies
and
factories
that
employed
thousands
of
workers
or
in
export
zones
that
employed
tens
of
thousands
or
the
labor
laws
in
an
entire
country
of
millions.
Their
sense
of
individual
perseverance
is
pushed
them
to
be
politically
ambitious
to
demand
structural
changes.
AB
In
contrast
here
in
a
wealthier
country,
we
are
told
how
powerful
we
are
as
an
individual
all
the
time
as
consumers,
even
individual
activists,
and
the
result
is
that
the
spider
power
and
privilege
we
often
end
up
acting
on
canvasses
that
are
unnecessarily
small,
the
canvas
of
our
own
lifestyle,
or
maybe
our
neighborhood
or
maybe
our
neighborhood.
Meanwhile,
we
abandon
the
structural
changes,
the
policy
and
legal
work
to
others.
This
is
not
to
belittle
a
little
at
local
activism.
Local
is
critical.
Local
organizing
is
winning
big
fights
against
fracking
oil
pipelines.
AB
Local
is
showing
us
what
the
post-carbon
economy
looks
and
feels
like
and
small
examples,
inspire
bigger
ones.
College
of
the
Atlantic
was
one
of
the
first
schools
to
divest
from
fossil
fuels,
and
you
made
the
decision.
I
am
told
in
a
week.
It
took
that
kind
of
leadership
from
small
schools
that
knew
their
values
to
push
more,
shall
we
say,
insecure
institutions
to
follow
suit,
like
Stanford
University
like
Oxford
use
university
like
the
British
Royal
Family,
like
the
Rockefeller
family,
all
have
joined
the
movement
since
you
did
so
local
matters,
but
local
is
not
enough.
AB
I
got
a
vivid
reminder
of
this
when
I
visited
Red
Hook
Brooklyn
in
the
immediate
aftermath
of
superstorm
sandy
Red
Hook
was
one
of
the
hardest
hit
neighborhoods
and
is
home
to
amazing
community
farm,
a
place
that
teaches
kids
from
nearby
housing
projects.
How
to
grow.
Healthy
food
provides
composting
for
a
huge
number
of
residents.
I
was
a
weekly
farmers
market
and
runs
a
terrific
Community
Supported
agricultural
program
and
sure
it
was
doing
everything
right.
AB
C
K
K
Wes
and
I'm
here
with
the
sunrise
movement.
My
comment
today
is
to
ask
that
you
pass
the
climate
emergency
resolution
that
sunrise
has
presented
as
written
and
vote
on
it
at
December
at
the
December
10th
meeting
following
the
December
6th
Asheville
climate
strike.
This
is
a
passage
from
Naomi
Klein's
book
on
fire
to
convey
the
urgency
of
this
vote.
K
How
will
we
adapt
to
the
people
made
homeless
and
jobless
by
increasingly
intense
and
frequent
natural
disasters?
How
will
we
treat
the
climate
refugees
who
arrived
on
our
shores
and
leaky
boats?
Will
we
open
our
borders
recognizing
that
we
created
the
crisis
from
which
they
are
fleeing,
or
will
we
build
ever
more
high-tech
fortresses
and
adopt
ever
more
draconian,
anti-immigration
laws?
How
will
we
deal
with
the
resource
scarcity?
We
know
the
answer
is
already.
The
corporate
quest
for
scarce
resources
will
become
more
patience.
K
More
violent
arable
land
in
Africa
will
continue
to
be
grabbed
to
provide
food
and
fuel
to
wealthier
nations.
Drought
and
famine
will
continue
to
be
used
as
a
pretext
to
push
genetically
modified
seeds
driving
farmers
further
into
debt.
We
will
attempt
to
transcend
peak
oil
and
gas
by
using
increasingly
risky
technologies
to
extract
the
last
drops
turning
ever
larger
swaths
of
our
globe
into
sacrifice
zones.
We
will
fortress
our
borders
and
intervene
and
foreign
conflicts
over
resources
or
start
those
conflicts
ourselves.
K
We
will
increasingly
look
for
techno
fixes
to
turn
down
the
temperature
with
massive
and
unknowable
risks
as
the
world
warms
the
reigning
ideology
that
tells
us
it's
everyone
for
themselves
that
victims
deserve
their
fate
and
that
we
can
master
nature
will
take
us
to
a
very
cold
place
indeed,
and
it
will
only
get
colder
as
theories
of
racial
superiority.
Barely
under
the
surface
and
parts
of
the
denial
movement
make
a
raging
comeback.
These
theories
are
not
optional.
K
Shifting
cultural
values
is,
admittedly,
a
tall
order.
It
calls
for
the
kind
of
ambitious
vision
that
movements
used
to
fight
for
a
century
ago
before
everything
was
broken
into
single
issues
to
be
tackled
by
the
appropriate
sector
of
business
minded
nongovernmental
organizations,
climate
changes
in
the
words
of
the
Stern
Review
on
the
economics
of
climate
change,
the
greatest
example
of
market
failure.
We
have
ever
seen
by
all
rights.
K
This
reality
should
be
filling
progressive
sales
with
conviction,
breathing
new
life
and
urgency
in
two
long-standing
fights
against
everything,
from
pro-corporate
free
trade
to
financial
speculation,
to
industrial
agriculture
to
third
world
debt,
while
elegantly
weaving
all
these
struggles
into
a
coherent
narrative
about
how
to
protect
life
on
earth.
Thank,
You.
AC
Hello,
my
name
is
Malcolm
Mitchell
I'm
here
with
the
sunrise
movement.
My
comment
today
is
to
ask
that
you
passed
the
climate
emergency
resolution
that
the
sunrise
at
sunrise
has
presented
and
as
written
and
vote
on
it
on
December
10th
meeting
following
the
December
6
actual
climate
strike.
This
is
a
passage
from
Naomi
Klein's
book
on
fire
to
convey
the
urgency
of
this
vote.
AC
One
of
the
most
distressing
ways.
The
clock
that
climate
change,
fueled
extinction
is
already
playing
out
is
through
the
Eco.
What
ecological
ecologists
call
mismatch
or
miss
timing.
This
is
the
process
whereby
warming
causes
animals
to
fall
out
of
step
with
the
critical
food
source,
particularly
at
breeding
times
when
a
fail,
when
a
failure
to
find
enough
food
can
lead
to
rapid
population
losses.
AC
The
caterpillars
are
hatching
earlier
too,
which
means
that
some
areas
that
they
are
less
plentiful,
when
the
chicks
hatch
with
a
number
of
possible
long-term
impacts
on
survival,
scientists
are
studying
cases
of
climate
related,
miss
timing
among
dozens
of
species
from
Arctic
Terns
to
pied
flycatchers,
but
there
is
one
important
species
that
they
are
missing
us
Homo
sapiens.
We
too
are
suffering
from
terrible
case
of
climate
related
miss
timing.
AC
Our
problem
is
that
the
climate
crisis
has
hatched
in
our
laps
at
the
moment
in
history,
when
political
and
social
con
conditions
were
unequally
hostile
to
prompt
problems
of
this
nature
and
magnitude.
The
moment
being
the
tail
end
of
the
go-go
80s,
the
blast
of
off
point
from
the
Crusades
to
spread
deregulated
capitalism
around
the
world.
Climate
change
is
a
collective
problem,
demanding
collective
action
on
a
scale
that
humanity
has
never
actually
accomplished.
AC
Yet
it
entered
mainstream
conscious
in
the
midst
of
an
ecological
war
being
waged
on
this
very
idea
of
collective
of
a
collective
sphere.
Fear
this
deeply
unfortunate
mistiming
has
created
all
sorts
of
barriers
to
our
ability
to
respond
effectively
to
the
crisis
it
has.
It
has
meant
that
corporate
powers
was
ascended
at
the
very
moment
when
we
needed
to
to
exert
unprecedented
behavior
in
order
to
protect
life
on
earth.
It
has
meant
that
regulation
was
a
dirty
war
just
when
it
needed
those
powers
most.
AC
It
has
meant
that
we
are
ruled
by
a
class
of
politicians
who
know
only
how
to
to
dismantle
and
starve
public
intentions
just
when
they
most
need
to
be
fortified,
and
it
has
meant
that
we
are
saddled
with
free
trade
deals
that
tie
the
hands
of
our
policymaking
makers
just
when
they
need.
Thank
you
for
your
time.
AD
Hello,
my
name
is
Alex
and
I'm
here
with
the
sunrise
movement.
My
comment
today
is
to
ask
that
you
passed
the
climate
emergency
resolution
that
sunrise
has
presented
as
written.
You
can
vote
on
it
at
the
December
10th
meeting
following
the
December
6th
Asheville
climate
strike.
This
is
a
passage
from
Naomi
Klein's
book
on
fire
to
convey
the
urgency
of
this
vote
in
Paris,
our
governments
agreed
to
a
goal
of
keeping
warming
below
two
degrees
Celsius,
while
pursuing
efforts
to
limit
the
temperature
increase
to
1.5
degrees
Celsius.
AD
What
we
cannot
do
under
any
circumstances
is
precisely
what
the
fossil
fuel
industry
is
determined
to
do
and
what
our
government
is
so
intent
on,
helping
them
do:
dig
new
coal
mines,
open
new
fracking
fields
and
sink
new
offshore
drilling
rigs.
All
that
needs
to
stay
in
the
ground.
What
we
must
instead
do
is
clear,
carefully
wind
down
existing
fossil
fuel
projects
at
the
same
time
as
we
rapidly
ramp
up
renewables
until
we
get
global
emissions
down
to
zero
by
mid-century.
The
good
news
is
that
we
can
do
it
with
existing
technologies.
AD
The
good
news
is
that
we
can
create
millions
of
well-paying
jobs
around
the
world
in
the
shift
to
a
post-carbon
economy
in
renewables,
in
public
transit
and
efficiency
and
retrofits
and
cleaning
up
polluted
land
and
water.
The
better
news
is
that,
as
we
transform
how
we
generate
energy,
how
we
move
ourselves
around
how
we
grow
our
food
and
how
we
live
in
cities,
we
have
a
historic
opportunity
to
build
a
society
that
is
fairer
on
every
front
and
where
everyone
is
valued.
Here's
how
we
do
it.
AD
We
make
sure
that,
wherever
possible,
our
renewable
energy
comes
from
community
controlled
providers
and
cooperatives
so
that
decisions
about
land
use
are
made
democratically
and
profits
from
energy
production
are
used
to
pay
for
much-needed
services.
We
know
that
our
reliance
on
dirty
energy
over
the
past
couple
hundred
years
has
taken
its
highest
toll
on
the
poorest
and
most
vulnerable
people,
overwhelmingly
people
of
color,
many
indigenous,
that's
whose
lands
have
been
stolen
and
poisoned
by
mining,
and
it's
poor
urban
communities
who
get
the
most
polluting
refineries
and
power
plants
in
their
neighborhoods.
AD
So
we
can
and
must
insist
that
indigenous
and
other
frontline
communities
be
first
in
line
to
receive
public
funds
to
own
and
control
their
own
green
energy
projects,
with
the
jobs,
profits
and
still
skills
staying
in
those
communities.
This
is
an
essential
demand
of
the
climate
justice
movement
led
by
communities
of
color.
This
is
already
starting
to
happen
on
an
ad-hoc
basis,
but
too
often
it
is
left
to
already
underfunded
communities
to
raise
the
finances
that
is
upside-down.
Climate
justice
means
those
communities
are
owed.
AD
Public
funds
as
a
drop
in
the
ocean
of
reparation
climate
justice
also
means
that
workers
in
high
carbon
sectors,
many
of
whom
have
sacrificed
their
health
and
coal
mines
and
oil
refineries,
must
be
full
and
democratic
participants.
In
this
justice
based
transition,
the
guiding
principle
must
be
no
worker
left
behind
the
bottom
line
is
this:
as
we
get
clean,
we
have
got
to
get
fair
more
than
that.
As
we
get
clean,
we
can
begin
to
redress
the
sounding
crimes
of
our
nation's
land
theft,
genocide,
slavery.
Thank
you.
Q
Hi,
my
name
is
Isaac
Ejiofor,
II
and
I
am
here
with
the
sunrise
movement.
My
comment
my
comment
today
is
to
ask
that
you
pass
the
climate
emergency
Rite
of
resolution.
That
sunrise
has
presented
as
written
and
vote
on
it
at
December
on
December
10th
at
the
meeting
following
the
December
6
Ashville
Climate
strike.
This
is
a
passage
from
the
ohmic
lines
book
on
fire
to
conveying
the
emergency
of
this
vote,
and
this
is
time
between
elections.
Q
It
is
worth
thinking
about
how
to
make
absolutely
sure
the
next
time
all
our
movements
go
all
the
way.
A
big
part
of
the
answer
is
keeping
it
up,
keep
building
that
yes,
but
take
it
even
further
outside
of
the
heat
of
a
campaign,
there's
more
time
to
deepen
the
relationship
between
issues
and
movements,
so
that
our
solutions
address
multiple
crises
at
once.
In
all
our
countries,
we
can
and
must
do
more
to
connect
the
dots
between
economic
and
justice,
racial
injustice
and
gender
injustice.
Q
We
need
to
understand
and
explain
how
all
these
those
ugly
systems
that
place
one
group
in
a
position
of
dominance
over
another
based
on
skin
color,
religious
faith,
gender
and
sexual
orientation,
consistently
serve
the
interests
of
power
and
money
and
always
have
they.
Do
it
to
keep
us
divided
and
keep
them
keeping
themselves
in
power.
Q
And
we
have
to
do
more
to
keep
it
from
to
keep
it
in
front
of
mind
that
we
are
in
a
state
of
climate
emergency,
the
roots
of
which
are
found
in
the
same
system
of
bottomless
greed
that
underlies
our
economic
emergency.
But
states
of
emergency,
let's
recall,
can
be
catalysts
for
deep,
progressive
victories.
Q
A
world
where
no
one
and
nowhere
is
thrown
away,
whether
in
firetrap
housing
estates
or
in
hurricane
ravaged
islands.
Because
as
we
rapidly
transition
off
fossil
fuels,
we
cannot
replicate
the
wealth.
Concentration
ended
justices
of
the
oiling
coal
economy,
in
which
hundreds
of
billions
and
profits
have
been
privatized
and
the
tremendous
risks
are
socialized.
We
can
and
must
design
a
system
in
which
the
polluters
pay
a
very
large
share
of
the
cost
of
transitioning.
Thank.
A
Q
AE
AB
AE
Had
a
good
news
story
here
prior
to
us
breaking
last
Friday
I
had
the
opportunity
to
meet
the
tree
planting
with
Asheville
green
works
at
estie's
elementary
school,
we
put
ten
very
large,
they
were
I
was
told.
Each
of
these
trees
were
about
a
thousand
pounds
around
there.
The
parking
lot
as
well
as
around
their
playground.
It
was
a
wonderful
opportunity.
All
700
kids
got
to
come
out,
help
us
plant
them.
AE
We,
we
had
a
great
education
about
the
importance
of
trees,
their
impact,
obviously
on
the
environment
on
people's
health,
and
you
know
this
is
systemic
from
the
the
symposium
on
climate
change.
I.
Think
many
of
us
attended
last
week
or
two
weeks
ago.
It
was
a
wonderful
opportunity
and
I
hope
we
see
more
of
that
in
the
in
the
Asheville
area.
It
really
brought
them
to
me.
AE
The
the
opportunities
that
we
have
in
this
wonderful
city
to
I
think
have
a
direct
impact
on
on
the
environment,
to
beautify
our
area
to
deal
with
some
of
the
stormwater
issues
that
we're
having
and
and
I'm
hopeful
that
you
know,
regardless
of
where
anybody
lines
up.
On
the
issue
of
a
resolution,
or
whatever
comes
before
us,
that
we
can
all
agree
to
go
out
and
plant
and
paint
trees
as
we
can
as
quickly
as
possible
and
I
hope.
All
of
us
around
the
city
rally
around
that
in
the
coming
in
the
coming
years
and.
C
A
Don't
know
if
John
John,
Knorr
position
on
say,
seizure
past
share
as
well,
and
he
was
a
little
bit
surprised
that,
because
he
had
talked
to
Ashley
earlier
this
week
and
thought
there
was
a
plan
to
get
back
together
and
have
more
discussion
but
and
I
know
Brian
you
and
I
talked
about.
Hopefully
the
there
can
be
some
coming
together
of
the
resolution
with
Stacey,
but
I'm,
not
sure.
Yet,
where
that
stance
is,
we
just
got
that
information
this
afternoon,
I.
N
A
Will
offer
that
I
personally
have
read
the
resolution
several
times
now
and
I
have
tried
to
figure
out
a
way
to
make
it
fit,
but
because
it
is
a
template
resolution
is
not
tailored
to
Asheville.
It
is
just
a
template
resolution,
so
I've
tried
to
figure
out
how
we
could
make
it
fit
for
Asheville,
in
particular
city
in
North
Carolina,
because
some
of
what
it
speaks
to
cities
in
North
Carolina,
don't
do,
but
but
I
remain
hopeful
that
there's
going
to
be
a
way
to
do
that.
A
I
I
am
a
little
bit
disappointed
that
the
resolution
doesn't
have.
It
has
a
lot
of
administrative
actions,
meetings
within
departments,
Department
planning
and
things
like
that.
It
does
not
specifically
call
for
further
funding
of
our
own
environmental
plan
that
we
have
already
adopted
as
a
city
and
so
I
wonder
if
there
might
be
a
way
to
think
about
how
we
could
grow
our
own
planning.
All
that
we
already
have
and
continue
to
flesh
that
out.
A
I
draw
a
parallel
to
say,
for
example,
the
transit
master
plan,
which
has
a
step-by-step
calls
for
a
step-by-step
process,
and
it's
really
a
matter
of
funding.
It
and
getting
the
push
to
get
the
next
thing
done
and
so
I
wonder.
If
there's
a
way
for
us
to
look
and
I
know,
councilman
Young
has
suggested
some
things
that
he'd
like
to
see
that
we've
had
a
lot
of
commit
talk
around.
For
example,
well,
just
different
funding
needs
to
further
put
put
dollars
behind
action
needed
on
our
own
planning.
So.
A
So
but
I
will
be
here
if
you
want
to
talk
about
it
afterwards,
but
I'm
I
just
say
all
that
to
say
that
I
am
hopeful
that
we
can
figure
out
a
way
to
make
this
work,
because
it
certainly
should
not
be
adversarial.
I
think
we're.
We
as
a
city
have
tried
to
be
one
of
the
most,
if
not
the
most
progressive
city
in
the
state
of
North
Carolina
in
terms
of
movement
on
climate
and
I
and
I
I'm.
A
Sad
to
hear
I
mean
I'm
sad
to
hear
that
I
know
that
it's
not
fast
enough
and
I
want
to
know
what
what
we
can
do
as
a
city
to
be
more
aggressive
in
getting
to
these
goals
and
I.
Think
that
the
more
we
have
disagreement
and
divisive,
nough
sweer
not
doing
ourselves
any
favors
in
terms
of
getting
there
so
I
would
look
for
opportunities
for
us
to
come
together
and
have
agreement
around
the
next
steps.
We
need
to
take.
I
Over
the
Asheville
City
Council
go
into
closed
session
for
the
following
reason:
prevent
disclosure
of
information
that
is
privileged
and
confidential.
Pursuant
to
the
laws
of
North
Carolina
are
not
considered
public
record
within
the
meaning
of
chapter
132
of
the
General
Statutes
that
statutory
authorization
is
contained
in
north
carolina
general
statute,
143
318
11,
a
1.
I
The
law
that
makes
the
information
privileged
and
confidential
is
north
carolina
general
statute,
143
318
10
e
to
consult
with
an
attorney
employed
by
the
city
about
matters
with
respect
to
which
the
attorney-client
privilege
between
the
city
and
its
attorney
must
be
preserved,
including,
but
not
limited
to
the
handling
of
settlement
of
claim.
Regarding
the
following:
May,
fair
Partners,
LLC
versus
Asheville
and
Gwen
Alexander
versus
Asheville,
the
statutory
authorization
is
contained
in
north
carolina
general
statute,
143
318
11,
a
3.
We.