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Greenways
Sig began his career in public service looking for a place to ride his mountain bike. Back in the early 90’s, with few places to ride single track mountain bikes, Sig started his advocacy work by formed the North Raleigh Mountain Biking Association and over the next eight years, developed more than thirty miles of single track mountain biking trail partnering with two state organizations, NC Division of Parks and Recreation and The Wildlife Resources Commission.
As a result of this work, he became increasing interested in the value of greenways and as a result, became President of The Triangle Greenways Council where he has be been instrumental in the development of more than 180 miles of interconnected greenways throughout the region including leading the City of Raleigh’s Parks and Greenways Bond in 2003 for $47.5 Million dollars.
Open Space
As he became more politically active, Sig joined the Open Space Task Force for Wake County in the late 90’s to help set the direction for open space preservation within the county. Soon after that, he became chair of what is now the Open Space & Parks Advisory Committee and since 2000, has successfully led three bond referendums totally $91 Million Dollars helping to preserve the most important naturally area in the county. Wake County Consolidated Open Space Plan (click here).
As his environmental interests expanded, Sig became interested in air quality issues. He created and chaired the Air Quality Task Force for Wake County through a collaborative effort of the public and private sector and their report was adopted by the Wake County Commission in July of 2003. Wake County Air Quality Task Force Report (click here). Later, he continued his work on air quality within the business community as a board member of Triangle Tomorrow (click here) were he remains active today as Co-Chair of the Triangle Regional Air Quality Coalition.
Evolving toward a more holistic approach of cleaner environments, healthier communities and mobility, Sig began to think more about transportation, land use and the integration of greenways into the existing transportation systems. In early 2000 he created and chaired the first Bicycle/Pedestrian Task Force for the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization, (click here) as part of the 25 Year Long Range Transportation Plan. Later, the task force evolved into the Bicycle Pedestrian Stakeholders Group (click here) that continues today as an active part of the transportation planning process.
Transportation
More recently, Sig has continued his interests in using transportation and land use to create healthier communities and cleaner environments as incoming Chair of the Triangle Transit Authority (click here). The Triangle region is currently undertaking a year long planning process through the Special Transit Advisory Commission (click here) to look at a variety of transit alternatives and develop a plan for the region. Sig has now become a national spokesperson for transportation, land use and environmental issues through Move America Now (click here) and looks forward to leveraging his knowledge, expertise and experience to speak about building better more livable communities with more choices and healthier happier citizens.
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