Posted on 01/07/2005 10:37:32 PM PST by NormsRevenge
The planners say they are not repeating the mistakes, because they are adding architectural amenities like porches, colonades and so forth. You can put lipstick on a pig, but its still a pig.
Guess what! In the Corralitos Community Plan, for Santa Cruz County, CA, the planners have identified seismic hazard areas and want to "make people in those areas safer". Which in their minds is to MOVE THEM OUT. You see, most of the town of Corralitos is in a seismic hazard area. They want to move people out so the racoons don't have to look at electric lights or worry about crossing a street that has a car in it.
You and I just aren't enlightened enough to understand all this.
Perata says "I will guarantee you that if there was any effort to provide affordable housing, through higher density, there would be a (housing) rush like you wouldn't believe," he said.
Thanks....another Barf idea from a corrupt Californian politician...
What's interesting about this is, San Francisco, super liberal city in the Bay Area, are having MAJOR problems trying to get high density housing due to local NIMBYs. What Perata proposing might actually be going against SF NIMBY Liberal Elites who don't want more skyscrapers!
It look's like I'm becoming a regular sustainable, progressive kinda guy!
It's fun making up rules for the liberals as they constantly try to regulate us.
That reminds me, if you go to that skyscraper link to the Russian forum...a lot of the new 'housing' skyscrapers for cities like Moscow and so forth...look like updated versions of the 'Commieblocks' they have everywhere. Sure, they look nicer (and probably safer due to current construction material) but they are still massive commie era apartments.
The Sierra Club and the Environmental Defense fund are based in the bay area. They are actively lobbying to have the Hetch Hetchy reservoir destroyed because the subsequent lack of water and power for the SF peninsula would limit growth. They are the NIMBYs because they don't want to see any more growth in SF-- they are getting a dose of their own medicine with the wrecked freeways, difficult commutes and high housing prices.
Maybe we should get the racoons dark glasses so the lights don't bother them so much.
Aren't they all?
LOL... Yeah, a special sunglasses tax in Hollywood to pay for them.
I think you're becoming a regular sustainable, progressive kinda guy too!
BTTT!!!!!!
So whatever happened to the studies of laboratory rats in "high density housing" (i.e.: the "population sink")? California lawmakers set great store by lab rats when it comes to chemicals, so why not housing?
Many years ago, I met Sunne McPeak. All things aside; her planning efforts were pretty good back then.
Yup! She planned the SillyCon Valley's Dot.Commie boom and inevitable bust!!!
I don't find her presence the least bit reassuring on the Schwarzenegger largely leftist team of Demonicrat appointees!!!
Sounds almost like some sort of "manifesto" struggling to recover from "the ash-heap of history!"
Exactly right!
We stopped their power plant plan though!
FYI,on KSCO radio, http://www.ksco.com/ there will be a show at noon on the smart growth fraud with Dr. Michael Coffman.
If you go to the radio station page you can listen live.
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