Posted on 10/15/2004 9:36:13 AM PDT by hedgetrimmer
Santa Cruz CA PING
"Each of these elements forces a monotonous uniformity..."
They tried this somewhere else and it didn't work....ummmm...yeah, that's right, the USSR!
Sustainable development PING
Community planning FYI
Thanks for the ping hedge!! I had no idea this was going on. This is terrible. Corralitos is one of the most interesting villages around here.
So, does this mean that Corralitos Market won't "fit in?"
Geeze this stuff is scary.
The operative word "NGO".....same old power grab to give UNELECTED PEOPLE power.
The Corralitos market has had to make numerous changes already. I mean to ask Dave if the new paint job was his own design, or if the "planners" had suggestions for him.
They have already had to stripe out at least one of their parking spaces (made it no parking as a result of the anti-car attitude in the county) to suit the planners. I would bet their signs are not considered "harmonious" as well. Even their smokehouse had to be moved, I'm told.
Hey, they don't call it "The People's Republic of Santa Cruz" for nothing. Arch-leftist political and cultural dominance has been the norm there for well over a decade and perhaps much longer.
Did you see this article in the Sentinel today?
Santa Cruz residents unload on council candidates at forum
"high-density housing can be done in a quality way."
But not in Santa Cruz!
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2004/October/15/local/stories/03local.htm
Hedge, I just emailed this to Michael Zwerling at KSCO. I strongly suggested that he do a Saturday Special on this. He's done "sustainable development" issues, but not specifically on Corralitos.
I am furious!!
It appears that some are trying to fight back. God speed to them!
If you followed the link to the Corralitoscalifornia website you can see part of the plan, they don't have the whole thing posted yet.
Its an incredibly anti-American piece of work if you ask me. I have the whole plan, its 70 pages long-- I hope they get the whole thing up there soon so people can see what these "Planners" really have in mind.
The ch. 7-9 are pretty telling though, with restrictions all over the place on private property and travel.
Considering the condition of county roads, this is an absolute scream. It will play hell with low-impact siting because people will do what they can to shorten the driveway instead of putting the house in a better place.
BTW, what the hell is a "salt rock" pavement? I googled it and got garbage. Is this another one of Granite Rock's little monopolistic scams similar to the county requirement for a foot of baserock on logging roads?
Missed a bracket.
I have no idea what sal rock pavement is. You may be right its a boondoggle. As for the low-impact siting, these guys never consider their little totalitarian ideas might have consequences that make things worse. But every idea in their plan makes life here worse.
RE: "Some commercial facilities have design features that are not in harmony with the Corralitos community."
Here in them thar Belmont hills we have the same bunch of BS going on. Starting in the early 90s, a cabal of carpet bagger, wealthy, Lefty, aging hippies became a majority at the council. First they massively reduced all slope density formulas and banned outright any development in certain areas. Then they started up a design review board. Finally came the visioning sessions. Naturally, such sessions are well attended by leisure oriented people who don't work very much and just happen to be the main support group for the elites.
Also, not surprisingly, their ideas of "compatible designs" are pure New England and they hate the native Southwestern styles of California. There is a strip mall along El Camino that they have a hair up their butts about because it's a red tile roof stucco walled job and does not fit in with the clap board, cedar shingled wall looks that they are after.
On a somewhat related note a few weeks ago I was sitting in a coffee shop in nearby San Carlos and could not help overhearing a couple of old hippie Marxist civic activist types as they conversed. They were overtly planning out their positions for an upcoming planning commission meeting. They explicitly stated that they wanted to crank down on square footage limits and, get this, specifically micromanage things like the number of bedrooms and bathrooms per home, in order to promote childless couples and gays to move in. I'm not making this up, they said it and I heard it.
TAKE BACK CALIFORNIA!
Yikes! Corralitos is in my ZIP code. Better ping for later.
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