The Empire Strikes Back (with a vengeance)

Transsylvania Phoenix ^ | 04/16/12 | Transsylvania Phoenix

[.454Puma]

After 25 years of opposition from neighbors, George Lucas pulls the plug on film studio project and sells land to low income housing development.

[.454Puma]

"We plan to sell the Grady property, expecting that the land will revert back to its original use for residential housing," Lucasfilm said. "We hope we will be able to find a developer who will be interested in low-income housing since it is scarce in Marin. If everyone feels that housing is less impactful on the land, then we are hoping that people who need it the most will benefit."

Did I mentioned Marin co. is populated by extremely rich liberals? :)

[kingu]

Locals will tie up any low income development just like they tied up the Lucas ranch expansion. This is how Marin county operates.

[GraceG]

Low income housing in the smack middle of a rich liberal neighborhood.....

I wonder if george lucas is a liberal or a conservative with a ironic sense of humour.....

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

I wonder what qualifies as “low-income” in Marin. On what I earn, I can’t afford to rent a park bench there.

[Jonty30]

I think he should develop it himself, as a spit in the eye to his neighbours.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

County supervisors approved a master plan for a bigger Lucas project at the Grady Ranch 16 years ago, but it never was built. Revisions to the master plan that reduced the project's impact on the environment were unanimously approved by county planners, but approval by county supervisors was delayed last month following last-minute concerns by state and federal regulatory agencies about the filmmaker's plan for a $50 million to $70 million creek restoration project.

This is where American ingenuity and enterprise go to die these days - in a snakes nest of regulations and lawsuits. Any new construction is bogged down in so many layers of environmentalist legal obstruction, NIMBYism by residents, and government over-regulation that any eventual success takes one or more decades and, all too often, no construction ever takes place.

I hope Lucas enjoys a healthy helping of his just desserts, too - he's gotten screwed by the very forces he and other celebrity enviro-groupies have nurtured and foisted on the rest of us. As for the Lucas Valley residents who decided to go buy houses next to Lucas' film studios and then object to him expanding, they got what they wanted at the expense of the rest of Marin County. Way to go, good neighbors.

[wildbill]

“A vengeful man he is” YODA

[blueunicorn6]

Put in a pig farm.

[SoCal Pubbie]

He’s very liberal.

[Venturer]

Or a landfill.

LMAO George Lucas has a good sense of humor, but of course this won’t happen. If they could stop a studio, they can stop Section 8 housing.

[Navy Patriot]

Locals will tie up any low income development just like they tied up the Lucas ranch expansion. This is how Marin county operates.

Or so they think.

With Agenda 21 coming on, the Feds can likely put section 8 housing there with the property owner's cooperation.