Definite pole-smoker.
Posted on 02/27/2012 11:29:49 AM PST by Twotone
Things began to unravel in 1973, when the Oregon legislature required cities in the state to set development boundaries with the goal of preserving farmland from “leapfrog development”—that is, new subdivisions not adjacent to established developments. Portland became the first major city with an “urban growth boundary.”
This fact opened up a world of possibilities that are still being inflicted upon us. “Urban planners have long believed in a land-use-transportation connection that would allow them to manipulate one through the other,” writes Cato Institute senior fellow Randal O’Toole in a damning policy paper on the failure of Portland’s growth policies. “So Portland plans land uses to try to reduce the amount of driving people do while it plans transportation to try to slow the conversion of rural land to urban purposes.”
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
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Land use planning certainly hasn’t stopped urban developement over some of the richest farmland in the U.S., located between Portland, OR, and Forest Grove, OR.
Democrats - Thieves, Thugs, Thralls and Thickheads
Hilarious article. Liberals unleashed. The city has a five year moratorium on road repair, yet city employee health insurance pays for sex change operations. What a conga line of freak mayors, most of whom belong in prison for sex with under age boys.
In fairness, Neil Goldschmidt was raping an underage girl. Next freak-show Mayor of Portlandia could well be Tre Arrow.
Definite pole-smoker.
Land use planning is used to lock up land until the big time developers (and political donors) are ready to develop it.
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