Product No.: 02036
Date Published: 09/2002
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This report is an annual update of DVRPC's September 2001 report on Environmental Justice entitled "…and Justice for All": DVRPC's Strategy for Fair Treatment and Meaningful Involvement of All People. It is part of DVRPC's ongoing and continuing work program and also fulfills a federal certification requirement for Metropolitan Planning Organizations that use federal funds to undertake a planning process to develop regional plans and programs. The supplement updates and refines the quantitative methodology developed in the first report. New demographic and quality of life factors are added, including limited English proficiency populations, female head of household with child populations, and the locations of day care centers. A new eight-factor degrees of disadvantage analysis and a poverty as a constant analysis are compared with the newly adopted FY 2003 Transportation Improvement Program. A sample neighborhood analysis of TIP funding focuses on Southwest Philadelphia.Geographic Area Covered: Nine-County Delaware Valley Region, including the counties of Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia in Pennsylvania; and Burlington, Camden, Gloucester and Mercer in New Jersey.
Key Words: environmental justice (EJ), Title VI, President's Executive Order 12898, quantitative methodology, minority, low income, disabled, elderly, car less, limited English proficiency, female head of household with child, degrees of disadvantage, regional thresholds, census tract, core cities, regional poverty measure, quality of life factors, day care centers, Transportation Improvement Program (TIP)
Staff Contact(s)
- Shoshana Akins (sakins@dvrpc.org)
- Karin A. Morris, AICP (kmorris@dvrpc.org)
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Title VI Statement
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Any person who believes they have been aggrieved by an unlawful discriminatory practice by DVRPC under Title VI and/or ADA has a right to file a formal complaint. Any such complaint must be in writing and filed with DVRPC's Title VI Compliance Manager, Alison Hastings, and/or the appropriate state or federal agency within 180 days of the alleged discriminatory occurrence. For more information on DVRPC's Title VI program or to obtain a Title VI Complaint Form, please visit: www.dvrpc.org/GetInvolved/TitleVI, call (215) 592-1800, or email public_affairs@dvrpc.org.