Berkeley residents show their opposition to the Climate Action Plan during the City Council meeting on Tuesday.
Posted on 05/07/2009 10:31:21 AM PDT by SmithL
They were feasting on organic endive and popping open the herb tea Wednesday at Berkeley City Hall, as staff celebrated the City Council's unanimous approval of an ambitious, painstakingly researched plan to fight global warming.
"After two years pouring your soul into something, to see it passed 9-0 is just intoxicating," said the city's planning director, Dan Marks. "This plan is a model for cities everywhere. As usual, Berkeley is a leader."
The City Council on Tuesday night voted to move ahead with its 145-page Climate Action Plan, approving a host of last-minute amendments and striking mandates from most of the proposal.
The plan outlines how the city will reduce its greenhouse gases by 80 percent by 2050 and will now undergo an environmental review and return to the council for final approval on June 2.
Some of the first tasks call for improving bicycle and pedestrian paths and beefing up energy requirements for homes that are for sale.
Implementing the plan will cost $3 million in its first year. The money, which has already been allotted from the general fund, will cover five full-time positions in city hall's sustainability office and the cost of upgrading bike and pedestrian routes.
The plan will return to the City Council every year for revisions based on advances in science, updated energy data and progress on current projects.
In addition, the public will be able to sound off on the plan via the city Web site, berkeleycli mateaction.org.
Any new laws or requirements that spring from the plan, such as mandatory home upgrades or expansion of permit parking, will have to be approved by the City Council, according to City Attorney Zach Cowen.
The community appeared divided on the plan, with half supporting it and half opposed, especially to its promotion of high-density...
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Idle hands are the devils workshop. These people need to get a life and stop focusing on things they can’t control- like the weather and sunshine.
More politicians telling people they can change the weather with tax money.
These people are just plain nuts.
Laughable. A local community “fighting” GLOBAL anything . .
Put the joint down, you have had enough.
You’ll be laughing when the globe is overheated except on 50 square miles of Berzerkeley!
Note: stay away from Berkley so you don't catch the ghey.
“cost of upgrading bike and pedestrian routes”
That will never be used except by panhandlers.
So they put a legal limit on daily temperatures in Berkeley?
Berkeley should plan to pay something to other jurisdictions, as the shrubs in its parks will now consume CO2 manufactured outside the city.
A 9-0 vote on the Beserkeley City Council is sort of like an old Soviet election. The communists somehow always got 100%. Wonder why that is.
When the hippie comp-sci majors at Berkeley graduate and start companies, they always start them next door in relatively business-friendly Emeryville.
Berkeley climate plan = pagan rituals.
“Berkeley unanimously approves climate plan.”
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God might be amused to know what the granola freaks in Berkeley have planned for His climate.
Farting will no longer be allowed within the city limits.
I want to live in a city that stands for something.
I want to live in a city that passes a resolution to do everything they can to keep the Earths’ core molten!
(Global warming is so yesterday.)
Berkeley already has a headstart by driving out more businesses. I’m sure they’ve made a substantial dent in carbon production.
“Farting will no longer be allowed within the city limits.”
Butt! Butt! I’ve heard that “guys” with loose sphincters fart a lot! So that’ll never be passed!
“POOT—POOT”
“Talk to me Darlin’”
The photo is dripping with irony. Leftists protesting leftist environmentalist proposals - asking for an Environmental Impact Review of a Climate Action Plan. I love it.
“The plan will return to the City Council every year for revisions based on advances in science, updated energy data and progress on current projects.”
And if global warming/climate change is found to be a complete fraud and total nonsense, will the mandates be reversed? Will there be a bloody parade of city councilunits flaggelating themselves with chains for the idiocy they inflicted on their beloved town?
Doubt it.
It’s probably because I lived there in the early 70’s but I literally get nauseous when I drive through Berkeley. It really has that effect on me.
Uh huh...Now why don’t you try your hand at that pesky “muslims swarming” problem mkay? Yeah, that would be greaaaat.
C’mon people..this will become an economic bonanza for the entire area of financially strapped California. There will be hundreds of thousands of tourists coming to see, with their own eyes, the 12 mile high wall Berkeley will soon build around itself to keep the foul air and climatic problems from other cities and town away. Of course, they WILL have to put in one or two gates in the wall, but that could be done with the use of air-locks, I think.
Not only that, think of the millions of dollars generated when space on the GREAT WALL OF BERKELEY is leased to companies that erect giant billboards. I doff my hat to genius.
I lived in Berkeley for 28 years and the zombies are still running things.
They have no intention of controlling the climate. I mean there are some who are just useful idiots, but the real goal is more graft on the backs of the taxpayer.
Its the soft-tyranny that will blossom into full fledged statism.
Basically, Berkeley just ran a lot of businesses out of town. Congrats, hippies.
Isn't endive organic by nature? I mean, it't not plastic, which itself could ne considered organic.
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