Title:Road to Recovery: An APA Chat with Representative Earl Blumenauer
کورت کریستینسن، رئیس APA، FAICP، با ارل بلومناور، نماینده ایالات متحده، از ناحیه سوم کنگره اورگان، در مورد راه بهبود و نقش اساسی برنامه ریزان در احیای اقتصاد ما و بازسازی جوامع گفتگو می کند. کرت و نماینده بلومناور این موضوع را از زاویه فدرال بررسی می کنند – عناصر کلیدی هر لایحه بازیابی چه باید باشد؟ چه درس هایی را باید از صورت حساب های بازیابی قبلی بگیریم؟ چگونه زیرساخت ها باید با قانون بازیابی COVID-19 مطابقت داشته باشد؟ چگونه برنامه ریزی می تواند به عادلانه شدن تلاش برای بازیابی کمک کند؟ اولین چت با جان پورکاری را تماشا کنید: https://youtu.be/9L8GpYqYrBw
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قسمتی از متن فیلم: Hello and welcome i’m kirk christiansen president of the American Planning Association I’m so glad you joined us for this new installment of our conversations with the National thought leaders about road to recovery and the essential role of planning and moving our country and our communities forward Washington continues to loom large in
Any conversation about recovery and the support communities and our economy need and rightfully so we know the enormous needs of communities on the front line of response and we know smart federal support is vital for genuine recovery our conversation today we’ll explore the federal role in recovery and how
Planning is essential to set the stage for creating more resilient and more equitable more prosperous places restarting our community in economy demands good planning there’s really no better person to discuss these issues with than my guest today congressman Earl bloom and our since being elected to Congress in 1996 to represent
Portland Oregon he has been the former foremost champion of planning and livable communities in Congress congressman Luminara has been leading the national conversation on so many planning issues resiliency transit biking climate change housing and so much more is real honor and pleasure to welcome congressman bloom in our today
To talk about planning recovery and the future congressman welcome thank you very much good my pleasure it’s great to have you here I remember speaking with you several times at a national conference or our policy conferences thank you for being such a big supporter of planning in and our organization so
Today I’m going to ask you a series of six questions so we’re going to start with the first one since the start of the pandemic Congress has moved forward a series of legislative responses including the cares Act Capitol Hill is now looking at what’s next for recovery legislation what do
You think the key elements of a recovery bill should be from a planning and community perspective I think it’s essential that we talk about how the pieces fit together it’s important that we not act in an uncoordinated unrelated way instead we ought to harness these forces of change
That we are dealing with to solve problems not create new ones this is the most dramatic reduction in economic activity since the Great Depression and it took three years for the Great Depression to get to this level of unemployment we did it in about three weeks we’re also having this play out
With the backdrop of the pandemic in the Great Depression the Spanish flu was a ten year distant memory for most and you had Franklin Roosevelt in the White House who was working at bringing the people together and we’ve got somebody in the White House who well he’s just
The anti Franklin Roosevelt so the role that planning is going to play I think has never been more essential because we have so many moving pieces here we have such stress on our infrastructure on and not just the physical infrastructure but public health infrastructure we’re having disruptions in terms of what’s
Going to happen in living patterns in terms of working arrangements being able to harness the tools of the planning profession to think about the big picture how the pieces fit together and be able to explain that to the public as well as the actors and actresses in decision-making role has never been more
Important I would totally agree I think that planners have that big-picture view and were really good at bringing people together to solve big problems when we did recovery legislation during the Great Recession infrastructure was a part of the stimulus package do you think that we should be should tackle
Infrastructure as part of covered 19 recovery legislation and as the if this affects your efforts on transportation reauthorization do it absolutely should be part of this effort in fact during the Great Recession there was an effort to invest in infrastructure but it wasn’t enough and it’s clear as we look back at that
Effort that what minimal investment we made an infrastructure actually produced outside economic games and we had some other things that we’re going on that related to the planning profession particularly as it related to Tiger grants and transportation where we were able to harness a number of different
Elements to reinforce to make them more effective and that’s what we need to do now absolutely we need infrastructure to be a part of it we need to be looking at recovery broadly defined everything from broadband capacity to dealing with resilience of natural disasters look what’s just happened in the Midwest with
The dam collapsing these problems don’t go away and planners can help us tie them together so what lessons should we take away from the successes and limitations of previous recovery bills I think it’s important to go big not be timid not tend to under sell the impacts we and
Not be frightened by the costs what we found in the Great Recession was that by being too narrow in what we did and and too timid in the investments that it actually ended up costing us more than if we had invested more at the time it we would have recovered quicker tax
Resources would have rebounded we would have avoided the lingering impact of a slow recovery we can’t afford to do that now this is on a scale that is unprecedented in terms of the economic and the health care crisis and over at all we still have the climate crisis
And the problems like I just mentioned in terms of a natural disaster we’re going to see more of those the latest projections are we have a greater than average projected number of named storm events in this hurricane season so we need to go big go bold and not lose our
Will yeah I would I would totally agree with that you know even in my my new town that I live in Richmond Virginia recently relocated from Los Angeles California to Richmond I’ve seen a lot of infrastructure projects going forward dedicated bike lanes protected bike lanes an areas where I would have never
Imagined they so it’s it’s that kind of forethought but I think going big and thinking of things outside of the box is great so plenty is a must-have it needs to be seen as such especially in times of crisis what do you see as the value of planning in in reopening our economy
And building the resilient and equitable economic recovery well if we do this right if it’s carefully planned with a broad vision what we can do is spend these dollars several times over we can get multiple benefits in terms of resilience multiple benefits in terms of improving the health of the community
Being able to invest in infrastructure projects that will put people to work while we strengthen the fabric of the community and improve quality of life and environment they were are planned properly there is more support for them we’ve seen this in the west coast as you know where people have been willing to
Embrace some pretty broad and bold actions in Los Angeles area for example in terms of what they’ve done with some major transit investments in my community in Portland Oregon we just past the most ambitious and the heaviest investment on a per capita basis of any place in the country
Dealing with homeless problems dealing with housing for low and no income people so even in the midst of this disastrous economic situation and people contending with the coronavirus our voters were willing to make a significant investment by an overwhelming margin to try and deal with less fortunate people and it’s a result
Of laying the foundation with careful planning and sketching a vision that people can relate to yeah we saw that in Los Angeles on two different fronts both on the transit side where they passed measures that would push major transit projects are much quicker and then they
Extend out and then and then with the homeless and homeless services that they had with Los Angeles in Los Angeles County yep excellent work that they did and I think that’s a great model how has the experience of the pandemic it’s helped in social dimensions as well as its economic devastation changed your
Perspective on the federal role in creating resilient equitable and strong communities well we can’t afford to miss the mark in in looking at the magnitude of this challenge the economic collapse the threats to the health and just the fabric of community if we’re if we’re not careful and do not have a tailored
Solution for example to neighborhood restaurants we’re threatened with 80% of American restaurants being closed this year many of them permanently they’re 11 million jobs at stake we have to be thinking broadly about how these pieces fit together and laying it to the public in terms of what
Is at stake for them in terms of community values in community health and opportunities to get multiple benefits for each dollar that we invest for resilience for economic development for promoting social welfare and inclusion this is the time that we need to let people understand the big picture and
Ironically the vulnerability that we’ve seen to many populations having disproportionate impact from the coronavirus has made that case I think very graphically the cost that is borne by people of color low income people who are in adequately housed they represent a threat not just to their own families
And community but that is a threat to everybody so I’m hopeful that my friends who are professional planners will be working closely with people who are involved with infrastructure architecture design engineering these are your kindred spirits and the partnership you focus with people who are broadly designing our future engineering it with architecture
Landscape Architecture and planning there’s this is a very powerful coalition that ties these pieces together and I hope that we take Coll advantage of it I I would agree wholeheartedly with you and I know that that we’ve been working with several of the bigger organizations
Like you know a ia and a SLA to work on some of these bigger issues you know we always think that we’ve done such a great job moving the ball forward on diversity inclusion and equity but this pandemic really brought that home that we we were just you know dusting off the
Top of the of the iceberg as opposed to looking at the entire picture so yes I I agree with you completely in your work on Capitol Hill you often push federal policy and planning towards tackling potential transformational planning issues things like housing crisis infrastructure electrification or autonomous vehicles many of these issues
Particularly housing have only become more critical during the pandemic what are your thoughts on planning’s focus now and how the federal government should promote that work I think the profession should be focused relentlessly on the big picture dealing with the challenges that we have in terms of manmade disasters healthcare
Disasters what happens with climate being focused on this big picture and making that case to the public the federal government needs to lead by example it is the largest landlord it’s the largest employer it’s the largest manager of lands the largest consumer of energy working with the planning profession so that the
Federal government can lead by example I think is extraordinarily important it’s a little bit of a challenge with the current administration but the facts remain and being able to use the federal inventory of tools for infrastructure for community design for being able whether it’s the military or how we
Respond to our own disaster recovery these are things that are right in the middle of these challenges and we’re going to be spending a lot of time and money on them with your help we can do it better yes I we agree to is essential for the entire planning community in
This industry APA and the profession public and private sectors nonprofits to work together for influence how can we ensure this important connection to APA and how can we make this happen well you have members in every community across the country and you are connected as we mentioned to other key partners people
Who engineer projects people who design them in both the AIA and ASL a yeah it is imperative that these connections are are more tightly drawn that we are looking at the biggest of pictures that we are making sure that people understand what is at stake being able
To work with your partners in design and engineering as well as planning gives people a chance to see the big picture and I think now there’s more receptivity for that they understand what’s at stake they understand how vulnerable we are if we don’t have appropriate of food supply
Chains if we don’t protect farmland if we don’t protect opportunities for appropriate recreation and the use of the public realm all of these pieces are part of this broader equation that are being brought into question and into focus I think this is the opportunity for the planning profession to be able
To tie the pieces together to integrate them and be able to help the public understand both what is at stake but what can happen if we have solutions that are tied together with your other key partners yeah I couldn’t agree more with you it’s gonna take all of the
Design professions working together to help solve these major issues and I think planners are the best people to be the leading of that because we’re the big picture people were the people that bring everybody together and and kind of see what needs to happen and where we
Need to put resources so yeah that is it’s an amazing idea I just want to thank you for your insights Congress of Luminara and I appreciate you taking the time to be with us today I appreciated the conversation but I also hope that these are sort of a
Wake-up call to us all to think about how we knit the pieces together how we expand people who are in the design community we need to have a lot of pencil ready projects not just shovel ready projects but we’re going to be pulling our way out of this hole for
Over the course of the next four or five years at a minimum and so we need to be dealing with things that are the big picture that are sustainable and I look forward to working with you and your members to promote those discussions in Congress and around the country
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Date: 2020-06-11 01:43:50
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