New law eases rules on high-density homes

Gov. Gray Davis has signed a bill that will allow cities to approve high-density development near busy bus and rail stops -- even if traffic in surrounding neighborhoods would significantly worsen.

The bill, SB 1636, sponsored by state Sen. Liz Figueroa, D-Fremont, will create special zones within a third of a mile from busy rail and bus stops, for which current rules could be waived.

I am sorry, but I'm going to have to report you to Presedente Fox. Most of those cars were stolen according to Mexican law and can be parked anywhere they damn well want.

The change in the law, of course, followed major cash payments to Blackout and the California democrats by contractor/developers. High density housing will permit many more Mexicans to have a place to live after they sneak into the country. The public schools will also profit.

Here's a story about the schools for you as an example.
In Santa Ana CA, barely any speak any English and they are considered as passing the test if they draw a picture.
That gets the money in the teacher's union pockets.

But, they all mostly drop out at the same time when the state requires a real test of ability.
At that point the drop out rate skyrockets because drawing a picture on an essay can't work.

Infuriates the Californians here. Only those who are extremely liberal of employed through the government actualy like the situation.

Contractors cannot build in such areas now unless they make street improvements to keep traffic there from becoming gridlocked

BE WARNED

This smacks of corruption like you wouldn't believe -- but maybe it's just experience here in the Redmond area in WA.

Not far from where I live, in (sub/)rural country a few miles east of Redmond, a developer got the right to put in amazingly high-density housing in the middle of nowhere, on a major arterial (Union Hill Road) connecting Redmond and smaller locales further east.

Somehow the county's traffic assessors managed to find that dropping a city of 5000+ people (or was that residences?), even with services (business parks, retail, schools) that haven't been built yet, would have no discernable impact upon this arterial. They even managed to preserve this lunacy in the face of advertisements that spoke of proximity to Redmond, Bellevue, Seattle... but such is the power of a big developer's attorneys, and maybe depth of pockets too.

Naturally, as soon as the project, already underway, had cleared the last legal challenge the county suddenly discovered the impact this development would have to the road... so now the residents of the entire county have to foot the bill, instead of the developer.

Golly gee.

And now they want to do it in California.

(Did I mention that the King County Executive is a Democrat, reputedly with eyes on the state house?)

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