The Difference between Planning and Social Engineering

American Thinker ^ | 01/21/2012 | Henry Lamb

[SeekAndFind]

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Local government planning should, first of all, protect the private property rights of its citizens. The legitimate function of local planning is to facilitate the safe and coordinated exercise of the free market in real estate and commerce.

Social engineering, on the other hand, is the result of professional planners creating a vision of what they think a community should be in the future. What the landowners may want is not a factor in the design. What the planners think the broader community will want, such as open space and protected wildlife areas, outweighs private property rights or what landowners may want. Since the emergence of Agenda 21 in 1992, a rash of "visioning sessions" have produce local comprehensive land use plans, promoted by the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, in more than 600 local communities.

This process is transforming legitimate local planning into social engineering. This process is eroding private property rights. This process must be reversed.

[cripplecreek]

Local government planning should, first of all, protect the private property rights of its citizens.

LOL. A little town near me is suing a couple of families for refusing to destroy their wells after the city put in water lines. The city wants the wells to be rendered forever unusable because these dangerous criminals might water their lawns without paying for the water. (This is Michigan, a state not known for having any water deficit)

[sauropod]

Nice to see Henry Lamb is still active.

I’ve met some planner types and I’m not terribly impressed.

[familyop]

"Local government planning should, first of all, protect the private property rights of its [more valuable, worthy] citizens [of sufficient cash flow from debt]. The legitimate function of local planning is to facilitate the safe and coordinated exercise of the [good, government-connected rackets] free market in real estate and commerce [and preventing lower-class, arrogant male trash from building their own homes, making gadgets or doing...ewe!...their own automotive repairs on our open land purchased by them]."

[familyop]

[Oh...a little irony and sarcasm there for you. Have fun. Enjoy the slide. Engineers and technicians will be back to serve you after the debt collapse caused by political correctness.]

[haroldeveryman]

“Nice to see Henry Lamb is still active.”

Thanks for the post. I just found a “you tube” talk from Harry Lamb on “Global Government”.

I wasn’t familiar with him but listening to this one hour speech has at least doubled my understanding of what’s going on around us.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7GddYaejI8&feature=related

[sauropod]

Henry Lamb is a national treasure. Check out his work with eco-logic.

[Lorianne]

This is BS

City planning offices have never been about protecting property rights. They have ALWAYS since their beginning been about dicating who can build what on their land, usually to benefit some person or persons over others.

Period.

[Lorianne]

Exactly.
And it did not start in 1992 with Agenda 21.
The article is misdirection.