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Posted on 05/09/2006 11:45:52 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Moving closer to a November showdown over open space and property rights, environmentalists on Monday turned in nearly double the number of signatures needed to qualify a ballot measure to set strict new development rules for hillsides, ranches and large farms across Santa Clara County.
The group delivered 61,906 signatures -- 19 cardboard boxes full -- to the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters in San Jose. That virtually assures the measure will appear on the Nov. 7 countywide ballot; it needs 36,040 signatures from registered county voters to qualify. Elections officials will verify the signatures in the coming weeks.
``We're in very, very good shape,'' said Peter Drekmeier, a Palo Alto city council member who is coordinating the campaign for the measure. ``The support from the community has been wonderful.''
The ballot campaign sets up what is expected to be a bruising battle between environmental groups and farmers, ranchers and real estate interests, each with a different basic vision of how the county's open lands should evolve.
The environmentalists argue tougher rules are needed to protect the county's remaining rural landscape. Many rural landowners counter that the rules won't help preserve agriculture; in fact, they say the measure will harm them financially and hamper their ability to hand down family farms from generation to generation.
Voters approved similar measures in 1986 in San Mateo County and in 2000 in Alameda County after high-profile campaigns. A San Benito County measure failed in 2004.
The group behind the current measure is People for Land and Nature, a coalition that includes the Sierra Club, Greenbelt Alliance and Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
Dense population = socialism. Just look at an election map.
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except here in south florida they rent cows to claim agriculture tax breaks and then build condos, we know how much cows like 2br 2bath townhouses
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So buy them.
Even if it didn't involve the unconstitutional practice of practicing mobocracy in place of democracy.
Private property is the foundation of a free society. If popular vote determines your rights to the use of your private property, there goes the foundation...
This alternative has a double whammy...
Not only must the property be bought at fair market value but, the taxpayers must make up the taxes lost forever from the elimination of the property taxes that the properties previously paid...
it will pass in November and property owners won't know what hit them. The bay area votes for anything green without even a thought.
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