Green "DNA" must be part of new City Building Code

Goldman for Mayor - 7 May 2008 - For Immediate Release

"A green DNA must be part of the City's future building code"
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(Richmond) - Paul Goldman, candidate for Mayor, said today that "one of the 10 fundamental changes the next Mayor has work with others in the community to achieve is make a green DNA part of the City's future building code, for it will have tremendous economic and environmental benefits for our city during the 21st century."

"If we turn the page on the failed politics of the past and embrace the cooperative leadership style that my new "Richmond Unity Council" proposal will bring to our town, then we can give our citizens and their children the enhanced quality of life, both now and in the future, that they deserve."

" This is one reason I have worked so hard with others to give Richmonder's a new way to modernize what has become a Separate and Unequal system of educational opportunities due to the fact that our city has the oldest such school facilities in Virginia according to a recent state study."

" Modernizing old facilities is not only mandatory in terms of education, but such modernization, if done right, is most environmentally friendly and cost-effective as a recent newspaper article points out."

"As the adage goes, the "future is now" and given the growing realities in terms of comparative economics and developing environmental markers, Richmond needs to accept the challenge of being a leader in the 21st century."

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