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Page 2 of 2 <br />215 <br />"Objective ED-2.6: Encourage and accommodate office facilities to be developed in areas that are <br />desirable and attractive to major corporate users and that have access to public transportation networks <br />and possibly rail transit." <br />We recommend that this Objective be revised to more actively prescribe where and how office <br />development takes place. The current language about public transportation & rail transit is too passive. <br />Mixed use development that includes office (and retail & residential components) must be located where <br />public transit including rail are h~kelu to become available if not already in place, and must be fashioned <br />in the most compact form in order to maximize pedestrian connectivity between the transit and the <br />destinations. <br />3) We emphasize again the importance of having a very well defined set of "sustainability principles" at <br />the top of the Comp Plan, preferably included in Chapter 2 with the Commissioner's Principles, or that <br />the Commissioners Principles be revised to have a stronger focus on sustainability. We refer you to pp. <br />63-72 of the Planning Board's July 9, 2008 Agenda Item Abstract; the right hand column presents the <br />Village Project's suggested revisions to Section 1.3, "Towards a Sustainable Future." We believe it is <br />particularly important at this time that our definition of sustainability refer specifically to "peak oil" and <br />global warming, epochal larger-context issues that play significant roles in our quality of life and that <br />are affected and exacerbated by choices we make locally. <br />James Carnahan <br />for The Village Project <br />August 6, 2008 <br />$/6/2008 <br />