Posted on 08/04/2010 11:49:19 AM PDT by La Lydia
The Senate Banking Committee passed the Livable Communities Act on Tuesday, moving the bill one step closer to final passage. The bill creates $4 billion in neighborhood planning grants for “sustainable” living projects and a new federal office to oversee them. Similar legislation in the House has been criticized by Republicans on the House Budget Committee, who charge that “the program’s aim is to impose a Washington-based, central planning model on localities across the country.”
In the Senate version, written by outgoing Chairman Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), the Livable Communities Act would designate $4 billion to aid local governments in planning high-density, walkable neighborhoods.
Premised on helping local governments to combat suburban sprawl and traffic congestion, the bill sets up two separate grant programs......
To administer and regulate these new grants, the bill creates the Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities (OSHC) within the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
The legislation is designed to prod local communities toward high-density, public transit-oriented neighborhoods that concentrate large numbers of people into small geographic areas connected by train and bus networks.
These high-density neighborhoods would be combined with high-density commercial districts that – in theory – would reduce the need for daily driving and commuting....
**“walkable” means “more opportunities to be mugged.”**
Actually, more mugging opportunity ties in with Obama’s goal of wealth transfer, ne c’est pas?
And this is what they want to do to everyone....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2565443/posts
Now that is scary . . . and it’s not “the future” - it’s now.
And it is here, where I live.
“Gun free” zones no doubt.
The one in Virginia won’t be.
More communism from the creep Chrissy Dodd. This bill has to be stopped.
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