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Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2022 4:10 PM
To: Website DL - Clerk's Office; Charles S. Bryant; Maggie Mahaffy Subject: [External] Online Form Submittal: Board / Committee / Commission Application Board / Committee / Commission Application
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Full Name:* Email Address:* Gender:
Jordan Wax non-binary
Please specify the Board, Commission or Committee you are applying for:* [Planning Commission V]
Which position on the Advisory Body are you applying for?* [Resident V]
I am currently a member of the above Committee, and am seeking reappointment.* () Yes (X) No
If you are seeking re-appointment, has any of your information changed within the last 12 months? If your answer is yes, please complete the rest of this form. If your information has not changed within the past 12 months, please only enter your name and email information above. You do not need to complete the remainder of this form.
() Yes (X) No
RESIDENCY / EMPLOYMENT INFORMATION
Home Address: City: State: Zip Code:
Home/Cell Phone Number: How long have you lived in Emeryville? 8 years
Place of Employment: Occupation:
Business Address: City: State: Zip Code:
CA
Business Phone Number: How long have you worked in Emeryville? Upload Your Résumé:
EDUCATION / EXTRACURRICULAR INTERESTS
High School:
Mt. Whitney
College:
Trade or Business School(s):
Other Interests:
Beyond the interests which brought me to serve on advisory committees here in Emeryville, I have an interest in architecture and design (I have some formal education in architecture), accessibility, environmentalism, energy policy, local drag, and karaoke.
ADVISORY BODY EXPERIENCE / INFORMATION
Are you currently serving on other Boards, Commissions or Committees? 1 (X) Yes () No
Have you served on a Board, Commission or Committee before? (X) Yes () No
Please list all past and current City of Emeryville advisory boards.
City of Emeryville Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee (current) City of Emeryville Housing Committee (past)
Please list any past and current board, commission or committee memberships outside of Emeryville.
Please list all organization memberships and positions held.
Please list any relevant work and volunteer experience.
I have significant experience working with maps and mapping software from my role as a military analyst. I also have some experience reading blueprints.
Why are you interested in serving on this Board, Commission or Committee? I am interested in helping to steer Emeryville toward a greener, denser, more accessible and equitable future.
I see us as a city overlooked by our much more famous neighboring municipalities that has all the potential it needs to become a regional destination and an even more enviable place to live and work. I want to do work that is looking well into the future, and that is what the Planning Commission does.
PLANNING COMMISSION APPLICANTS ONLY
Please provide a short (300 words or less) statement discussing your ideas and attitudes about planning in Emeryville. Please consider issues such as traffic, industrial and commercial development density, affordable housing, maintaining community diversity and jobs/housing balance.
Emeryville is a city that has a traffic interchange as a crest. Previous generations of planning at different levels of government have made us a driving destination for big-box retail, a traffic thoroughfare, and a city divorced from its natural waterfront in the service of a better view for traffic. Yet the city has been fighting against this car-choked reality, and in the time I have been here I have seen not only progress in where we are but where we're going. As a commissioner I want to plan for the inevitable future of Emeryville where we are connected to Berkeley, Oakland, and San Francisco by a safe and comfortable bike network and a reliable and fast transit network. As part of this urban fabric, the reality of our future is dense. But without continuous effort toward enhancing means of transport in and out of our community other than cars, it will continue to be difficult to convince developers to bring less parking, and people to bring fewer cars. Without continuous effort to provide an array of equitable housing options, we will have failed our social duty as well as failed to build a truly diverse community. And without pushing and prodding developments to fit our community well, we will fail to convince people that density will improve their neighborhoods. I want to see a lot more of Emeryville: more residents, more jobs, more visitors. But the context of this growth is a city that is choked by traffic and a region with internationally famous inequality. These problems were created over decades by people who didn't look far enough ahead. They will take decades to fix by people who do.