Posted on 02/21/2010 4:31:34 AM PST by reaganaut1
MALIBU, Calif. — The house that the U2 guitarist longs to build here would have a copper roof, fashioned to resemble fluttering leaves. Boulders that dot the property would be left in place and assigned charming names like Dinosaur Vertebrae and Cistern. The dirt dug up to build would be reused, when possible.
Yes there would be a pool, but its central purpose would be to ward off fire should the local native plants not do the job. And every imaginable green building technique would be used.
But all of this does not mollify those who police the mountainside along one of the most gorgeous stretches of American coastline, where public access versus exclusive seclusion is an ever-raging debate that even a member of the most vocally earth-hugging rock band on the planet cannot escape.
Standing high above the Pacific Ocean, wearing his signature black beanie, David Evans, or the Edge, his nom de guitar, made the case for his proposed 156-acre development that would include five houses, his own among them. The project would “respect and honor the landscape,” he said, and set a new standard for building in remote areas by incorporating the environment rather than mowing it down.
“We just had this dream of building a house that was in perfect harmony with these hills,” Mr. Evans said. “We see it as something that could be a bench mark of sustainability.”
But Mr. Evans’s vision has attracted the ire of his potential neighbors in an exclusive enclave below, as well as the Santa Monica Mountain Conservancy, who together deplore the road that would be built to get to the development — one that would snake up with switchbacks — and the amount of dirt trucked in and out of the site.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Left wing propaganda, "logic", and lies.
By that twisted reasoning, the 1200 limos and 140 private jets that flew to Copenhagen for the "Green Summit" set themselves back 100 years.
Al Gore owns several mansions, uses limos and private jets to go everywhere, and owns a huge houseboat as well.
This is nothing but Liberal Envy. These "greens" wish they owned that property and could do the same thing. If they can't have it, then no one can.
“Land of the Free”, they used to call it.
It is nice to see the same stupid rules that liberals foist upon us finally go and burn one of their own.
This is such bull. If he wants to live green, then he can take up residence in a cave. He can also use fallen leaves for clothing and eat berries for food (but only after all of Mother Earth’s furry creatures have had their fill). I will not turn the calendar back and live like it’s 1699.
So The Edge wants to spend millions of his own dollars to walk the walk after talking the talk. He is willing to use every trick in the book that he has preached to live what he believes.
And this isn’t good enough for other environmentalists, who rarely practice what they preach in big ways.
Just like George Bush is considered the destroyer of the earth and yet lived in a very environmentally conscious house while the Paragon of “Green” Al Gore lives in a huge Mansion that uses more KW of electricty in a week than I use in a year.
These are the lessons:
Live as you want with your own money.
Nothing is ever good enough for moralistic busybodies.
Neighbors should have little say in how you develop your property, and outsiders none.
The design for The Edge's £30 million home has upset neighbours
The red circle shows the California hillside where The Edge wants to build his home Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1165577/Strife-Edge-U2-guitarist-condemned-30m-home-branded-green-disaster.html#ixzz0gB0WjVyG
Looks like he’ll have to wait “Until The End Of The World” to build that house.
Well said.
That’s a neat boat. Never though I’d envy AlGore.
“his proposed 156-acre development that would include five houses...has attracted the ire of his potential neighbors in an exclusive enclave below, as well as the Santa Monica Mountain Conservancy”
As far as I know, the Conservancy (which began in 1980) never went after Streisand’s $15 million estate in Malibu, which included five homes on 24 acres. (She donated it to the Conservancy in 1993 for a tax write-off.)
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/18/style/chronicle-508193.html?pagewanted=1
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