Posted on 06/08/2007 11:43:36 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan
SB 375 requires all regional transportation planning decisions and all transportation funding to be limited to a “preferred growth scenario,” that requires a minimum housing density of 10 units per acre. It was adopted by the Senate on June 7, 2007. Here is Senator McClintock’s speech in opposition to the bill:
Mr. President:
This measure says that all transportation plans and transportation funding decisions must be made with the object of concentrating people in dense urban cores. In this bill, it is called a “Preferred Growth Scenario.” It says all transportation plans and funds must serve this “Preferred Growth Scenario,” and that, in turn, means at an absolute minimum packing in ten families per acre. Ten Families.
Welcome to the brave new world of central planning. This is a continuation of the policy that Gov. Schwarzenegger institutionalized with AB 32 and that Attorney General Brown operationalized by suing San Bernardino County.
They’re basically saying, “You cannot build new highways until you can show how you’re going to build them without using earth-moving equipment or concrete and that, once they’re built, nobody is going to use them.”
But the Left has an alternative – that’s what this bill is all about. They want everyone to move into dense urban cores – the denser the better. That’s what this bill means when it uses the term, “Preferred Growth Scenario.”
And fellow Californians: They aren’t talking about your preferences for your own life – they’re talking about their preferences for your own life. And for your family’s life.
“Preferred Growth Scenario.” They prefer that you move into dense urban cores – and they are prepared to manipulate public policy and misuse government authority to force you to do so.
And they couldn’t care less what you prefer for your own life and your own family.
I’ve got news for the authoritarians on the Left: most people don’t want to live in dense urban cores. Most people want a little elbow room – they want a yard for their children to play in. They want a little grass, a little garden, a little breathing room they can call their own.
And who the hell are you to tell people they can’t? Who the hell are you to tell people how and where they’re going to live? Who the hell are you to impose your preferences for their lives over their own preferences for their lives?
That’s at the heart of this issue. People have a right to live their lives according to their own preferences – not government’s – and they have a right to live where they please – to acquire property and enjoy that property. And in any free nation, government exists to respect and protect and accommodate that right.
The people were just sold a $20 billion bond measure to address our sadly neglected highways. After the election, the Governor’s Director of CalTrans admitted that at most $8 billion of the $20 would be used for highway construction. And this measure says little if any will be used for highways.
Many of us warned we were being sold a bill of goods – that very little of that money would actually be used for highway construction. This bill is the ultimate proof of those warnings.
And it is the ultimate expression and embodiment of an arrogant, out of touch class of elitists who actually believe that they are naturally entitled to run your life for you.
I'll try and post the video on You Tube when I get the copy I ordered yesterday.
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Sorry everyone for the double post/ping.
That’s ok. I been down investigatin the “hell” thread by SmithL!!! (snart!)
http://209.157.64.201/focus/f-news/1335656/posts?q=1&;page=1
Hey! We KNOW who the "hell" these legislaughterers are!!! THESE ARE THE TOTALITARIANS, Tom!!!
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It's called Agenda21.
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Even though you didn't ping me, I'm compelled to comment anyways!
Is there ANYONE in FReeperland that can quarrel with that statement, including the preceding sentence??? How 'bout just some quibbling??? Anyone???
When will they ever learn??? When will they ever er er learn??? (hippie folk singers from the 60's and 70's)
That’s the thread I posted...Agenda 21.
Sorry. Linked!
California is being more and more open about this kind of ... stuff. They must be as out-of-touch with ordinary citizens as our legislators.
California aren't necessaily buying it: Most of them don't even know about it because, as you said, the media is too busy following that whining tart Paris Hilton to report on the crap coming out of Sacramento. Besides, the MSM wants to keep citizens in the dark about what's going on in leftist legislatures -- the lamestream media is all for it. They think they're part of the elite core that would be exempted.
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