In any sustainable planning…

In any sustainable planning process three tenets are non negotiable.

-air quality
-water quality
-soil quality

You can live for three minutes without air, three days without water and seven days without food. Hence, these three attributes must be ensured in perpetuity for a healthy population and associated sustaining environment. As such, they need to be the first priority of any planning process. Once you have secured these three things, then one can site areas such as commercial areas, residential areas, industrial areas, transportation corridors and so on. The current proposed policies fail to address these three critical tenets of life. They particularly undermine the ability to protect air, water and soil and fail to address the need for a non-carbonized future. For these reasons, I object to these policies as written. While we do need housing, if you degrade air, water and soil quality it is infinitely more expensive if not impossible to get them back.