Normal's 2035 Report

http://www.normal.org/files/sustainabilityplan.pdf
City of Normal 2035 Report Page 10.

INTRODUCTION

During a February 2010 visit to Bloomington/Normal, United States Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood acknowledged Bloomington/Normal as "truly a livable community." Secretary LaHood’s assessment was carefully considered: he and his staff were at that time designing Livability Principles which would shortly thereafter inform his unprecedented, joint press release with the Secretaries of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Housing and Urban Development (HUD) regarding targeted stimulus funding that would support communities across the land.

http://www.cnsnews.com/node/70475
Republicans Blast ‘Livable Communities’ Bill As Washington-Based CENTRAL PLANNING for Cities and Towns

http://www.newsweek.com/2009/05/15/ray-lahood-transformed.html
For many generations—before automobiles were common, but trolleys ran to the edges of towns—Americans by the scores of millions have been happily trading distance for space, living farther from their jobs in order to enjoy ample backyards and other aspects of low-density living. And long before climate change became another excuse for disparaging America's "automobile culture," many liberal intellectuals were bothered by the automobile. It subverted their agenda of expanding government—meaning their—supervision of other people's lives.
By George Will.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/08/the_livable_communities_act_1.html
But social engineering is at the heart of the Livable Communities Act, where federal planners hope to reduce personal mobility as measured in vehicle miles traveled and shift housing patterns from single-family homes in the suburbs to small apartments in cramped central cities.

http://www.timesexaminer.com/political/353-sustainable-development-livable-communities-act-s-1619
“Dodd’s bill, like all sustainable development propaganda, paints a warm and fuzzy picture of what ‘livable’ or ‘sustainable communities’ should be,” said Lamb. “The propaganda fails to point out that in order to achieve this Marxist utopia, government has to enforce the vision.

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/obama-livability-initiative-really-a-ploy-to-stop-drivers
Yet those coercive techniques are a major part of the livability campaign, as shown by Portland, Oregon, which LaHood touted as “the example” of a livability program. The most important of these techniques is to divert highway user fees to expensive forms of transportation that receive little use. Portland is deliberately allowing congestion to grow while it spends money collected from highway users on streetcars and light rail. Not that Portland’s program is very successful. Despite spending more than $2 billion on rail transit since 1980, transit’s share of Portland-area commuting declined from 9.8 percent in 1980 to 6.9 percent in 2007. (The table says 6.5 percent but that includes the people who worked at home.)
by Randal O'Toole, CATO INSTITUTE


http://www.pantagraph.com/news/opinion/mailbag/article_6314b06c-a750-11e0-aa1c-001cc4c03286.html
What's Next In Normal Tram Ride and No Cars? 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/8411336/EU-to-ban-cars-from-cities-by-2050.html
EUROPE TO BAN CARS BY 2050.
Cars will be banned from London and all other cities across Europe under a draconian EU masterplan to cut CO2 emissions by 60 per cent over the next 40 years.


http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/06/28/car-clash-europe-vs-the-us
Europeans are doing all they can to discourage people from driving and parking their cars in and around cities