Cities Resist Regional Plan to Limit Sprawl

SF Public Press ^ | June 13, 2012 | Angela Hart

[Twotone]

Weak regional agencies could miss pollution targets if they are unable to persuade local leaders to change

A high-profile effort to focus new Bay Area housing into energy-efficient transit villages is seen as unworkable even as it makes its public debut this summer, say urban planners, because regional government lacks the authority to make cities build dense urban neighborhoods.

[Twotone]

"Planners have become more discouraged about the plan’s prospects in part because of recent resistance from conservative activists, who pack meetings across the region to denounce the plan as “authoritarian” and “social engineering.”"

Cry me a river...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

UN Agenda 21 by any other name.

Every state needs to do what Alabama just did.

Alabama Adopts First Official State Ban on UN Agenda 21

[Lorianne]

If zoning can make laws enforcing low density (mandated large lot sizes and minimum house size) then it can mandate density as well.

Can’t have it both ways.