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.
Bookmarked.
Ping me when you post it on YouTube if you could. :-)
How far away from the tomato patch (Crapitol) are ya?
They all got banned about a month or so back.
Oh! You mean them compromisers and appeasers and opportunists and pragmatists who think the only answer to political action is to suppress their commitment to any consistent conservative movement???
The ones that are embarrassed by committed 100 percenters and fundamentalist Christians in the conservative movement and prefer the big government/big tent approach???
They are especially out of touch with reality. Urban living is killing delta smelt, by concentrating our waste and dumping it into the rivers. No fish will ultimately be able to survive this insane urbanization scheme. Our wastes have historically gone on the land, where they belong, to be consumed by vegetation.
If we live in dense cities, we're going to have to get along without any fish in our streams. People are led to believe that sewage treatment plants can clean the water sufficiently, but that is impossible. No fish can live for more than a few days in even tertiary effluents. This is because of chloramines, trihalomethane, and nitrosamines. Attempts to remove them result in even more toxic byproducts.
I think they call them trolls. ;-)
I guess they never read Genesis 1:28, not to mention Genesis 2:5, 2:15, or 3:16, never mind Leviticus 25 & 26.
Oh well, maybe they'll get a clue when we start to see the equivalent of Deuteronomy 28.
That's where my money is. They've declared themselves to be above God; what else can come?
28:49 The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth;
a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
28:50 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:
28:51 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.
Brevity is the soul of wit!!! I prefer your “trolls” to my long two paragraphs of pejoritive adjectivies... Trolls are everywhere!!!
Brevity is the soul of wit!!! I prefer your “trolls” to my long two paragraphs of pejoritive adjectivies... Trolls are everywhere!!!
Ha! I'm in the belly of the liberal beast: the Bay Area (near San Jose, which is a bit better than San Franfreakshow).
Ah good. You understood my cryptic question. If I’m not mistaken, NormsRevenge is also in your general vicinity. Weren’t you the the Fonz’s TV show? (grin) There are several FReepers in and around the South Bay Area...
They aren’t really ‘buying’ it. Many of them are being bribed to accept it by getting the below standard,below market price apartments to live in if they promise not to own a car and live on less than 10 gallons of water a day.
This is a fantastic analysis by Sen. McClintock and we should all make thousands of copies of it and hand it out in front of those G-d awful developments to the brainwashed and passive souls who are populating them.
That's good to know. We're badly outnumbered, but I'll never cross over to the dark side (translation for DU trolls: the left).
Well... At least you don’t live under the jurisdiction of the CA Coastal Commission, or Schwartzenegger’s stupid Sierra-Nevada CONservancy GovernMental EnvironMental State Agency!!!
I've heard horror stories about these land-grabbers on one of our local (conservative) talk stations. They won't be happy until the state government owns every square inch of California.
CA has established a soviet socialist dictatorship where all decisions on land will be made by the state for the Marxist common good, as defined by the state.
It’s apparent to me, but the majority of California citizens don’t see it, and those who do are mustering little if any resistance. McClintock is taking that first step to expose this imminent serf/master dictatorship by exposing it.
McClintock and his supporters need to form an anti-fascist party to first educate the citizens, and then start to take over local governments via elections to prepare for the battle against the thieving Marxists infesting the state capital.
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