Posted on 05/09/2012 8:27:52 AM PDT by SmithL
Filmmaker George Lucas is pushing forward with plans to build low-income housing at Marin County's picturesque Grady Ranch, a vow of his that was widely dismissed as an insincere attempt by the billionaire to thumb his nose at complaining neighbors.
The Marin Community Foundation announced Tuesday that it is working with Lucasfilm to "explore options" for building affordable housing in the location where the movie mogul wanted to build a film studio until residents in an adjacent subdivision protested.
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Lucas...withdrew his plans last month to build a large mission-style movie-making studio on Grady Ranch, blaming the Lucas Valley Estates Homeowners Association for being Nimbys and torpedoing it.
Several Lucas Valley Estates homeowners had, in fact, said that they considered the historic Lucas-owned farmland their back yards. They claimed the proposed 263,701-square-foot digital technology production complex was too large, would displace too much dirt, would change the course of a creek going through the area, create too much traffic and hadn't been studied enough.
In the letter withdrawing the plan, Lucas said he no longer believed he could maintain a constructive relationship with the neighbors and castigated Marin
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God bless you, Mr. Lucas. They had a chance to reap lots of tax dollars with your studio there. They blew it. Now let them reap their reward, lots of low income housing and a high crime rate!
You just GOT to love it.
Why it's the perfect place for the low riders and pimpmobiles, dope dealers, bangers, ho's, hoodies, meth labs, pot farms, county bus routes, and welfare offices.
May they have much diversity in Lucas Valley residents.
There's your problem right there. It's not your property and you've been freeloading on it for years. I do have a former co-worker who built on an acre right next to farmland. Whenever I see him I ask if Wal-Mart has bought that land yet.
In this case it appears he's using it to punish his upper-class Marin county neighbors. This is worth more popcorn than one of his movies.
I hope Lucas gets hoisted by his own also.
and so there goes the neighborhood.
LOL! Good for Lucas. Just like the wind farms the liberals love....until it’s in their back yard
If they didn't own the land, then it wasn't their back yard.
Whats good about housing for deadbeats subsidized by taxpayer’s dollars?
It’s good when the deadbeats are located right next to a gated community full of limousine libs.
He is full of stupid ideas, such as Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
LOL, If they didn't live in Bizzaro World, then it wouldn't be their back yard.
Low cost housing is fine, it’s the irrational occupants that give it a bad name.
Setting aside the politics of a majority of these people, if they bought their homes with money they earned, it seems short sighted to be cheering the government building low income housing next door, probably diminishing the value of their investments. Whats conservative about that?
Your housekeepers, valets and maitre d’s have gotta live somewhere...
We can’t seem to be able to stop them from spending the $$$, so it’s good to see these deadbeats, as you call them, plopped down right next to the idiots who’ve been plopping them down around the rest of us for the past few decades.
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