George Lucas pushes low-income housing option

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 5/9/12 | Peter Fimrite

[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

[Navy Patriot]

Setting aside the politics of a majority of these people,

That's your first mistake, and a fatal one at that.

"These people" used bogus environmental crapola to confiscate Lucas' property without compensation by making it useless for him, and their ultimate goal is to make it useless and an obstacle to any human (except, of course, themselves).

Now let me start that paragraph again so you understand,...

These Communists......

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Bravo George. I may even have to try to watch one of his insufferable movies in appreciation of this.

[GraceG]

[ 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! ]

Did Lucas just “Go Galt” on them in his own way?

I have to wonder about him, I thought he was a big Lib, but even through the prequals sucked, they did lay out the plans of HOW to turn a republic into a sick twisted empire... Maybe while writing the god awful prequals George ol’ boy woke up when he realized he is seeing what he wrote come into fruition...

[GraceG]

Mos Eisley would be the perfect name for the new housing development!!!!!

[MeganC]

“(Lucas) is full of stupid ideas, such as Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.”

I only wish I were that stupid. And rich.

[Mr. Jeeves]

I used to live in Lucas Valley. It is filled with the ultimate NIMBYs, who think they have carved out their own little slice of paradise and don't want anyone else touching it. Indeed, when the Lucas Valley Estates subdivision was built in the 1990's, the neighbors who were already in the early-60's built neighborhood to the east (my old 'hood) made the exact same arguments and fought the developers for years. Now the newer Lucas Valley Estates homeowners ($750K - $1.5 million dollar homes) are taking the same position.

Marin has a lot of public-owned "open space" - the Lucas Valley residents think George Lucas's property should become more of the same rather than be used for any type of commercial purpose. And honestly, it's a dumb place to put public housing, too - miles from the freeway or any sort of retail store. George Lucas likes the secrecy and privacy of the area, but he might have been better off building his studio closer to town...or moving the whole operation to the Central Coast or Orange County, where he would have been welcomed with open arms. Why waste money fighting needless battles with liberal politicians and BANANA homeowners? Marin is nice to visit, but not worth going to war over. George Lucas is a Marin native and has a lot of supporters there, but completing a successful project in the county would just be rewarding the NIBMY Marxists with undeserved tax dollars.

[dfwgator]

Whats conservative about that?

It would turn a lot of liberals into conservatives.

[Polynikes]

“Mos Eisley would be the perfect name for the new housing development!”

I would be partial to New Marin City with a sign at the entrance that said “ Just keepin it real.”

I love it when Libs eat their own

[Buckeye McFrog]

Reminds me of a sales job I had years ago where the boss made us all cut out a picture of something we wanted to acquire and paste it on the wall of our cube to motivate us.

I put up a photo of a large, elegant house.

He walked by one day and said “Real estate. Excellent investment! Very good!”

He never knew that my true goal was to buy the 5 houses closest to his and donate them all to the HUD Section 8 program.

[TexasRepublic]

The main boulevard through that development should be named “Martin Luther King Boulevard”.

[Polynikes]

The location isn't that far from San Quentin. It would be an excellent place for a few half-way houses for ex-cons or drug rehab centers for folks trying to get back into society. Trayvon Towers or Skittles Place would be few good names. :~)

[skeeter]

So Lucas is no better than these Marin residents.

I have no problem with liberals getting their comeuppance. Being a conservative I do have a problem with government coercion in ANY form.

Lucas gets no attaboy from me.

[Navy Patriot]

Lucas is a big lib, and it's always fun when libs screw one another.

Government coercion of criminals to not engage in criminal or treasonous behavior is perfectly fine, and indeed one of the original, intended and legitimate functions of government.

Communists are both criminals and traitors engaging in criminal acts and conspiracy in an ongoing manner and should suffer government coercion in an ongoing manner.