Side by Side Comparison of Original Local Agenda 21 Plan for New Rochelle (GreeNR) to Final Version

Talk of the Sound ^ | Robert Cox

[wheresmyusa]

Just in time for Earth Day, Talk of the Sound has reviewed the Local Agenda 21 plan for New Rochelle, NY created under an ICLEI program first announced in 2009 and analyzed changes to the document made after the New Rochelle City Council voted to adopt the plan in 2011. Earth Day falls each year on April 22nd. It is the two-year anniversary of the release of the original GreeNR plan.

Talk of the Sound conducted a similar analysis when GreeNR was released in 2010 and many of the concerns we raised were raised at Council. In some cases, items we identified -- requiring homeowners to pay to upgrade the lateral lines from their house to the City sewer system when selling their home, displaying private information from Con Edison on electricity usage -- were removed from the revised GreeNR plan. Others however, such as the GreeNR Seal and the "Green Lien" programs, remain.

The linked document provides a side by side analysis of the document as presented to the City Council in April 2010 and the document created on March 17, 2012. The two documents contain insertions and deletions of images, section dividers and other cosmetic changes that make a side by side comparison difficult. Talk of the Sound inserted blank pages or removed cosmetic pages so that the content pages matched up and could be run through the software to identify changes. The mark up key uses yellow highlights, red rectangles and red ovals: sections, sentences or words "of interest" are highlighted in yellow; changes between the two documents are marked with a red rectangle; sections, sentences or words that suggest mandates are marked with a red oval.

[wheresmyusa]

"According to Newborn, the overall intent of GreeNR is to try the voluntary compliance route first and then move to mandatory if the voluntary route fails which is another way of saying the plan contains "mandates" even though she and the Mayor later claimed there were no mandates in the plan."

Nice.

[melsec]

This is my problem with Agenda 21 and all the other bulldust from the Left is that it IS mandatory eventually and that it is brought in by stealth with ratepayers and voters not having any idea on how it will affect them. I believe that even a lot of lefties would not vote for it if they had the chance and if they were fully informed.

Mel

[Joshua Marcus]

Wow, I hope the Petrie’s move out by now!

[Dr. Sivana]

Wow, I hope the Petrie’s move out by now!

All except Richie, who is now approaching a bitter retirement, resenting the fact that his parents spent more time after hours with Rob's co-workers than with him.

[Baynative]

It is worth sharing the continuing process of using basic agreement with the soft sounding appeals of Agenda 21 to continually change alter and expand the powers of the government and grow their partnerships with non governmental organizations (NGOs) and commissions of unelected officials who grant themselves the power to make and enforce rules against taxpaying citizens.

People need to be educated about how this process works. There are two kinds of environmentalists; those who are using the environment to enforce a socialist/Marxist agenda of societal control and the well meaning folks who support them by not being aware of what is going on under the surface.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Baynative.

[TEXOKIE]

If you want to be on or off the Agenda 21 ping list, please notify me by Freepmail. It is a relatively low volume list in which we have been exploring the UN Agenda21 and related topics. We have collected our studies with threads, links, and discussions on the Agenda 21 thread which can be found here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2738418/posts

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2861644/posts