Santa Cruz Sierra Club Group Endorses Leonie Sherman and Bruce Van Allen for City Council

The Santa Cruz Sierra Club's website summarizes all of the candidates responses, and here are Sherman's and Van Allen's:

"Bruce Van Allen stated that the Climate Action Plan shouldn’t be “just a plan on a shelf” and that if he were on the City Council, he would insure that goals and actions in the plan were “carried out on staff assignments.” He agreed that sustainable transportation goals are important, shared that he hasn’t had a car since 1986, and that he was opposed to the widening of Highway 1. In addition to transportation, Van Allen said that he is against desalination, citing its enormous energy use. He concluded his answer by expressing the need for our community to work in harmony with our natural environment.

"Leonie Sherman had the last word on this question, agreeing with nearly everyone else that sustainable transportation is an important way to reduce carbon emissions in Santa Cruz. She said we need to reduce the number of car trips by improving infrastructure for sustainable transportation, including improving bike infrastructure, making “simple improvements” to encourage more people to drive less, and “invest in improved public transportation.” Another strategy for reducing carbon emissions that she mentioned is providing more “incentives for investing in solar” and examining the budget more closely to ensure that we can invest in projects to reduce carbon emissions."

Read more about the candidates forum here: https://ventana2.sierraclub.org/santacruz/node/166

Candidate websites:

Leonie Sherman for City Council
http://leoniesherman.com/

Bruce Van Allen for City Council
http://vanallenforcitycouncil.org/


Santa Cruz Sierra Club
https://ventana2.sierraclub.org/santacruz/