Plan de Acción para la Comunidad de West Oakland

El Distrito de Aire está aumentando los esfuerzos existentes para reducir la exposición a contaminantes del aire de la comunidad con el Programa Comunitario de Protección del Aire del estado, también conocido como el Proyecto de Ley 617 de la Asamblea. Este esfuerzo se enfoca en la reducción de emisiones en la comunidad en los vecindarios afectados de manera más desproporcionada por la contaminación del aire.

Se seleccionó a West Oakland como comunidad prioritaria para el primer año en el Área de la Bahía.

El Air District se asoció con el Proyecto de Indicadores Ambientales de West Oakland y con un comité directivo de la comunidad para desarrollar Owning Our Air: The West Oakland Community Action Plan, el cual servirá como modelo para mejorar la calidad del aire en esta comunidad. 

Este video resalta el inicio de la reunión del comité directivo que hubo el 27 de julio de 2018, la cual demuestra el gran apoyo que este esfuerzo recibió de los líderes de la comunidad y de las partes interesadas.

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2018 Meetings and Events

How will the West Oakland Community Action Plan improve air quality?

The goal of the West Oakland Community Action Plan is to reduce people’s exposure to air pollution and associated health burdens. Specific pollutants that will be addressed under the plan include:

• fine particulate matter
• toxic air contaminants
• diesel particulate matter

The West Oakland Community Action Plan will build on existing West Oakland work, and identify air pollution sources and people most susceptible to air pollution. Based on this effort, the plan will recommend strategies to reduce air pollution emissions and exposure. Measures will address:

• regulatory changes for mobile and stationary sources of air pollution
• land-use decisions
• compliance with rules
• incentives
• other identified measures to reduce exposure to air pollution

The Air District’s Board of Directors is required to adopt the plan by October 2019.

Why West Oakland?

West Oakland, bounded by the Port of Oakland, the Union Pacific rail yard, and the I-580, I-880, and I-980 freeways, is one of the most impacted areas in the San Francisco Bay Area. There are numerous sources of diesel particulate matter and toxic air contaminants, and the area has long been a focus of the Air District’s Community Air Risk Evaluation (CARE) program. Sources that contribute to high levels of diesel particulate matter concentrations and toxic air contaminants include:

• seaport activities
• locomotives
• large distribution centers
• concrete plant
• power plant
• metal melting and shredding facilities
• industrial and manufacturing operations
• major freeways and busy roadways used as trucking routes

Communities adjacent to West Oakland will benefit from measures in the West Oakland Community Action Plan.

Partnership with Community

The Air District has partnered with the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project (WOEIP), which has a history of community planning and advocacy to reduce people's exposure to diesel particulate matter and toxic air contaminants. WOEIP has led or participated in numerous air quality and health studies in West Oakland, including:

• Neighborhood Knowledge for Change: The West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project (2002)
• Clearing the Air: Reducing Diesel Pollution in West Oakland (2003)
• Paying with Our Health: The Real Cost of Freight Transport in California (2006)
• West Oakland Truck Survey (2009)

WOEIP was a member of the West Oakland Specific Plan (2014) working group and continues to participate in the Oakland Army Base Stakeholder Group. In addition, WOEIP co-chaired the Port of Oakland’s 2009 Maritime Air Improvement Plan and is co-chairing the follow-up plan currently underway, the Seaport Air Quality 2020 and Beyond Plan. See links below.

Community Steering Committee

Understanding a community’s air quality challenges requires expertise and participation from a variety of stakeholders. WOEIP and the Air District worked together to establish a steering committee who will inform the development of the West Oakland Community Action Plan. The steering committee(68 Kb PDF, 1 pg, revised 03/10/2019) includes:

• residents
• health organizations
• businesses
• schools
• government agencies

Plans and Studies Affecting West Oakland

• Mapping Traffic Related Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Events in Oakland (2018)
• Seaport Air Quality 2020 and Beyond Plan
• West Oakland Truck Management Plan
• Air Pollution Mapping with Google Street Cars (2017)
• CARE Retrospective and Path Forward Report
• West Oakland Specific Plan (2014)
• Final West Oakland Truck Survey Report
• Maritime Air Quality Improvement Plan (2009)
• Diesel Particulate Matter Health Risk Assessment for the West Oakland Community (2008)
• Paying with Our Health: The Real Cost of Freight Transport in California (2006)
• Clearing the Air: Reducing Diesel Pollution in West Oakland (2003)
• Neighborhood Knowledge for Change: The West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project (2002)

Please visit the California Air Resources Board’s Online Resource Center and Technology Clearinghouse for more tools and information.

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