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Agenda 21 ping!

Also saw this this morning in an Oklahoma conservative email newsletter:

“++ ANNOUNCEMENTS

* TUESDAY EVENING - OKC - Tonight, OKC City Councilman, Dr. Ed
Shadid will host a meeting which will feature virtually every agency
leader in OKC. Though Dr. Shadid is too smart to use the term
sustainability or suggest the meeting is about the goals of Agenda 21,
it certainly looks like such. This meeting will ramp up the attacks
upon “urban sprawl”. While I supported Dr. Shadid in his recent run
for the council and am glad he is in office, this is the agenda he
supports in which he is dangerous. Remember, I said he was a liberal
as became evident when he ran against Representative David Dank in the
2010 election cycle. According to Oklahoma law, he had to file as an
Independent, but he made no bones about associating himself with
either the Green Party or perhaps it was the Natural Law Party. Both
parties are very liberal and infected with extreme environmentalism.

People in the “sustainability movement” which is affiliated with the
U.N.’s Agenda 21 objectives, hate “urban sprawl.” This bunch of
“central planners” want people to live “stacked and packed” rather
than in suburbs or on acreages such as where I live. They want people
to live in downtown areas. They want people to live up and up, not out
in the hinter lands.

Much of what is going on in downtown OKC are the objectives of the
sustainability movement. The parks, bike paths, narrower streets to be
more pedestrian friendly, light rail, loft apartments, and
entertainment venues are designed to keep people out of automobiles
and in a close nit location. Of course massive amounts of tax dollars
are funneled into downtown while other parts of the city have to fight
for every available penny of the city’s budget.

Speaking will be Blair Humphreys, OKC City Manager Jim Couch,
Councilman Ed Shadid, Russell Claus representing OKC’s Comprehensive
Plan, Chief Bryant of the fire department, Police Chief Bill Citty,
Rick Cain representing Public Transit, Marsha Slaughter about city
utilities, Eric Wenger from public works and Bob Tener with code
enforcement.

The meeting will be held at the OKC Marriott in the Grand Ballroom,
3233 NW Expressway. It is tonight, September 6th at 6:30 p.m. Look for
developers and builders to be demonized at this meeting. Bottom line,
the vast majority of people want to live where they want to live,
whether that is downtown or in the suburbs. If conservatives don’t
stand up for liberty, these central planners will institute policies
which will greatly restrict where people can live as well as how they
live in the future.”

Freepers, please watch out for this agenda in your own areas!

thanks for sharing that.

Actually, people moving back into city centers wouldn’t be all that bad a thing, think of how vital and lively NYC is, no empty abadoned city center there. And think how cities appeared in the old photographs; lively and busy downtowns, lots of shops , commercial activities, small businesses etc.

But everyone was driven out by the welfare babies and the gangs, and rotten schools. No young family is going to live downtown and try to raise kids under those circumstances!

If Agenda 21 really wanted people to move back into downtowns you’d think the first things they would call for is police crackdown on the gangs, throw out the corrupt teacher’s unions, straighten out the schools and cut off welfare.

they’ll *never* get people to move back into downtowns, no matteer how many civic centers and loft apartments and cute parks they put in when you can get flash-mobbed by feral youths.