Sussex Preservation Coalition to meet Jan. 15

The Sussex Preservation Coalition will meet from 7 to 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 15, at Lewes Public Library, 111 Adams Ave., Lewes.

Guest speaker will be Anne Canby, founder of Rethinking Delaware, a coalition of organizations and individuals concerned with several interrelated challenges confronting the state, including environment-related threats, distressing health trends and shortages of affordable housing. Canby will discuss steps necessary to make progress, and to mobilize support at state and local levels.

The meeting is free and open to the public, and a Zoom link will be available at sussexpreservationcoalition.org. Attendees are asked to register in advance by emailing spcde.org@gmail.com. 

“Rethinking Delaware believes that fashioning policy responses requires decision makers at state, county and local levels to recognize how challenges are affected by our current land use and transportation policies. To make change, we need to build the political will to modify, or in some cases, abandon land use and transportation practices that are decades old,” said Canby. 

Canby has served in many different roles in the transportation field, including being the first woman to lead the Delaware and New Jersey departments of transportation. She also served as treasurer of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and deputy assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of Transportation.

She currently chairs the advisory board for the University of Delaware’s Railroad Engineering program.

SPC is a coalition of local environmental groups in Sussex County dedicated to preserving and protecting local ecosystems. Its mission is to increase the impact of groups and individuals through working together to educate, organize, advocate and act.