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Community Plans Aim to Change Values
Community plans are specifically designed to reflect aesthetically the collective values they seek to impose -- at the expense of individual expression and privacy. Full text: Community planning (including growth management, comprehensive planning and smart growth) is suddenly all the rage. Just a few years ago, the words "charrette", "visioning council", and "consensus planning", were virtually unknown to most Americans. These words have been introduced to our neighborhoods by a coterie of community planners, who've fanned out across the country to confuse Americans into accepting a different political philosophy and a different way of living.

Freepers Beware of the Non-Meeting Meeting (Vanity)
Perhaps some of you who are veterans at planning issues have seen this, but the other night I witnessed my first community plan meeting that was moderated in the "Assets, Issues, and Solutions" format.

CA: Community Planning Case Study: Corralitos, California
An existing town that has excited the interest of community planners is the small town of Corralitos, located in an unincorporated area of Santa Cruz County, California. The Corralitos Valley Community Plan follows the same guidelines and values as groups like the Congress for New Urbanism and the Smart Growth Network whose stated goals are to reshape our values from an individual rights-oriented society to a "community" or collective rights society. "Visioning" plans use psychological and physical cueing designed to make residents change their views on the social value of private property and submit to rules and regulations of conformity required for a "community rights" oriented society to evolve.

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We have a plan called 'The Overlay' to reform our little burb into cluster.

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This project , with its accompanying consensus/ Hegelian dialectic method, is being implemented everywhere- corporations, business, education, governments, even churches. It is a staple in the corporate business management systems world, a cousin of Total Quality Management. Do a search for 'Vision 2010' and you'll see that there is a lot of 'vision' going on.