Posted on 03/01/2011 9:15:03 PM PST by wheresmyusa
California is the unfortunate testbed for almost every new lunatic idea promulgated by the radical left—which is to say, every idea they offer—the complete explanation for why the state is such a train wreck. One of the worst examples is California’s oppressive environmental statutes. In combination with these, Agenda 21 has spread like cancer throughout California. Today I received some explicit examples of how this is playing out in Ventura County. The county Board of Supervisors is attempting to impose, almost word-for-word, the Wildland Project’s despotic edicts that will turn wide swaths of rural private property into complete wastelands.
A group called the Ventura County Coalition of Labor, Agriculture and Business (VC COLAB) detailed these problems in a recent seminar held by the Ventura County Libertarian Party. VC COLAB Executive Director Lynn Gray Jensen cited planned revisions to Ventura County’s Biology Initial Study Assessment Guidelines (ISAG), which they describe as “a lengthy and complex draft of terminology, thresholds, methodology and restrictive covenants to be applied to county projects that are subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).” Look at the 210 page document and see if you don’t agree. Simply mind-numbing.
ISAG had identified 19 practices and conditions determined to be “unsustainable.” Imagine yourself a Ventura County farmer who owns a parcel of undeveloped land. You want to grow crops or build a structure, but it has been identified as “protected property” by California’s onerous environmental regulations. The restrictions identified by VC COLAB are nothing short of horrifying. Following is a partial list:
In addition to owners being prohibited, without express approval from the County Planning Director, from conducting normal agricultural activities such as filling, storing and removal of soil and rock; erection of buildings, fencing, corrals and other structures; placement of pavements, stones, gravel, etc...
(Excerpt) Read more at pronlinenews.com ...
There are no property owners in America anymore just tenants who are caretakers for the greater good.
Break the damn law. Break it.
There are no property owners in America anymore just tenants who are caretakers for the greater good.
Unfortunately, you’re exactly right.
I would think this would constitute a ‘taking’ and be subject to condemnation proceedings and restitution. It is not a matter of zoning, in which you can attend and lobby, but rather the government essentially ‘taking’ your land rights without due process or just compensation. I’m not a lawyer but it bears review.
Betcha the whole organization is staffed by watermelon people.
According to the environmentalists, almost, if not everything that has improved human life around the world and cleaned up the environment is not sustainable.
They want us to live in a third word dump with raw sewage running down the street between the drift-wood shanties, for teh people who can survive.
Solano Communist County - Solano USSR!
Solano Communist County - Welfare Rats Out! Business In!
Solano Communist County - Peace Creep Protestors! (Cindy Sheehan)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ttfji2gKp8 <-—LINK
Nothing exposes a bad law like it's enforcement.
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