ERIE BAYFRONT TOWN HALL

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1watch the ENTIRE Erie Bayfront Town Hall

Organized by LISA AUSTIN / CIVITAS August 25, 2020


2. NEPA Categorical Exclusions vs. Environmental Assessments: what’s the difference?

Jill Witkowski Heaps / EarthJustice

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3. NEPA needs Political Support to Succeed

Raul Garcia / EarthJustice


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4. How Expanded Roadways and 4. Increased Traffic impact Water Quality

Sarah Bennett / PennFuture


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5. By Design: How Policies, Practices, and Investments Create Systemic Inequity

April DeSimone / designing the WE


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6. Fixing the Planning Process: Building on Buki’s Erie Refocused COMPREHENSIVE Plan 

Adam Trott / AJT Architect / Erie Bayfront Coalition / Connect Urban Erie / CIVITAS


 

7. The Bayfront: Promises & Reality

Judith Lynch / Former Erie County Executive/ Historian, JES

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8. Does PennDOT’s Bayfront plan provide good pedestrian access?

Freda Tepfer / Orientation and Mobility Specialist (retired)

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9. Have we been here before?

Roland Slade / Cultural Critic & Found Video Collage Artist / CIVITAS


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10. The impact of eminent domain on displaced residents.

Samone / Artist / Community Advocate


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11. PennDOT is trying to solve the wrong problem. 

Michael Fuhrman / Former Project Manager of Destination Erie Regional Plan


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12. Reflections on environmental justice.

Gary Horton / Erie NAACP


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13. Wonderful Waterfronts

Maxwell J. Hentosh / Architecture + Urban Designer


14. The Bayfront: a historical and personal perspective.         

Andre’ Horton / President, Erie County Council

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15.Let’s take action!

Andre Rosado / Erie Equal


16. Creating our future.  

Rev. Dr. Charles Mock / Community Missionary Baptist Church/ African-American Concerned Clergy

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17. THANK YOU FOR WATCHING THE ERIE BAYFRONT TOWN HALL

Lisa Austin / Erie Bayfront Coalition / Connect Urban Erie / CIVITAS

Adam Trott / AJT Architect / Erie Bayfront Coalition / Connect Urban Erie / CIVITAS


SHORT ESSAYS

January 2019, Erie Times News / PENN DOT IS TRYING TO SOLVE THE WRONG PROBLEM

August 2019, Erie Times News / WHAT KIND OF CITY DO WE WANT?

August 2020, Erie Reader / SKIP THE HIGHWAY, BUILD A BAYFRONT