[El Conservador]

So, where do you draw the line between no development at all (the envirowackos' position), and environmental havoc spurred by uncontroled development???

[hedgetrimmer]

Sustainable development = sustained poverty. The opposite of sustainable development is free enterprise and private property.

If you get rid of all the private property (except for the global elitists of course) and you destroy free enterprise through environmental and other regulation, you end up getting no development at all and the utter destruction of the principles on which the United States was founded.

In my view there is no trade off. Sustainable development is 21st century communism. People have died because of it, a lot more people will die because of it the more entrenched it becomes.

[hedgetrimmer]

Here is the future of California brought to us by sustainable development. Doesn't it look like communism to you? (Think of the highrise housing projects in the movie farenheit 451)


Transit EcoVillages: Limited Equity Cooperatives Limited-equity cooperative housing is a form of multi-family housing that offers residents both affordability and management control.

Ownership Structure In a cooperative, whether limited-equity or market-rate, co-op members do not have ownership interests in the real property itself but in shares of stock in the corporation that owns the property

A primary purpose of limited-equity cooperatives is the development of a permanent stock of affordable housing. To accomplish this objective, all limited-equity cooperatives have resale restrictions. These restrictions are usually incorporated into cooperatives’ by-laws and into individual occupancy agreements. in the sustainable california, no one will be able to profit off increases in real estate prices (except the corporations that hold the land).


Many of the possible locations for transit ecovillages are above existing parking lots along the rail corridor. Since transit ecovillages are car-fee communities the parking lot would continue to be used for its current purpose, and the transit ecovillages would be built in the air space above the lots.

Transit ecovillages will use solar and wind energy, rainwater collection and greywater systems (water from the bath and sinks, treated, then used for toilets or landscape), edible landscaping, energy efficient fixtures, and resident car share.

Isn't this a great vision for what was once a free America? Your taxpayer dollars are funding this group you know.