Marnie Glickman — Candidate for City Council, District 2

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Endorsed: Full 350PDX Climate Justice Platform 2024 (Zenith, CEI Hub, Portland Harbor, PCEF, Shade Equity, No Freeway Widening, Building Emissions, Transit, Walking & Rolling, Climate Governance, and Divest from Fossil Fuels)

Candidate statement:

I have a long track record of putting environmental priorities first as an activist and organizer, and I am the strongest environmental candidate in District 2. It’s no stretch to say I am running with climate and environmental actions as my #1 priority.

I have served in office and won tough justice fights against Monsanto and against West Coast liberals who think racism is a fight that has nothing to do with them.I was co-author of the 2010 Green New Deal. I am a black belt martial arts instructor, tough and ready to fight alongside you. I am endorsed by the most respected climate groups, conservationists, and sustainable transportation and housing planning organizations in Portland.

CEI Hub: The canary in the chemical tank is asking us whether our public sector exists to do competent, rational infrastructure planning or not. Let’s tank the tanks together. The City should create three overlay zones for sensitive industrial areas.

Cycling:My vision is building 50 miles of protected bicycles lanes per year in Portland. We are currently building about four per year. I want to bring back Mayor Vera Katz’s Car Free Portland Day last held 20 years ago in September 2004. I would like to create car-free streets. Imagine N Williams and N Vancouver as car-free streets every Saturday Night! I would like the BikeTown for All program available to everyone in Portland. I would love to see transit helpers welcoming throngs of people moving without cars up and down N Interstate and across Lombard.

Freeways: I oppose inducing highway traffic via freeway expansion. I have a campaign song about it.

PCEF: We are just getting started. Investing in equity and resilience is economic development.

Transit: Climate friendly transit planning IS our economic development. Climate planning = better quality of life.

Willamette River: If we successfully clean up our river, and make it a safe place for wildlife and human recreation again, we will have made major strides. I’ll be our city’s go-to person for a vital, beautiful Willamette.

Zenith Energy: I oppose their land use and will organize colleagues to revoke their permit. By the time the new council takes office, it is possible that Zenith will have been granted an air permit, but perhaps the process won’t be completed yet. Under Oregon Administrative Rule 340-018-0050, a local government can revoke a LUCS any time before an air permit is granted by the state and there is also case law to suggest a LUCS could be revoked even after an air permit is issued. There are several grounds on which the council could rely on to revoke this permission (i.e. the City didn’t treat the LUCS decision as a quasi-judicial process, Zenith did not supply full information, Zenith’s air permit application contains information not in the LUCS application, etc.).

Will you ensure the Portland Clean Energy Fund (PCEF) remains climate-focused in line with what voters intended?

Yes