Posted on 04/03/2005 3:38:22 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
smc.eduWhat Eli wants for himself:Eli Broad: "Now, Los Angeles will have at its center a grand boulevard and urban park, providing millions of people each year the opportunity to walk, shop and play while enjoying downtown at its best."
Eli Broad
Born: New York, 1933
Position: Chairman, AIG Retirement ServicesQuote: "In general, I never understood how this region could not have a vital center or downtown like other metro areas did. I believe we have to have far more people living in the center of the city. People are going to find they want to live there because there will be things to do."
. . . SunAmerica Inc. Chairman Eli Broad, stressed that a push for efficient land use, with higher housing density and mixed urban zoning, requires focused, but still absent, public policy.
California Coastal Commission November 1999 Agendac. Application No. 4-99-185 (Broad, Malibu) Application of Eli Broad, Trustee of the Broad Revocable Trust, to demolish two single-family homes, construct 4,690 sq. ft. single-family home, attached garage, detached 510 sq. ft. garage with upstairs 440 sq. ft. guesthouse, & new septic system, offer to dedicate lateral public access easement over southern beachfront part of site and construct 6-ft-wide public sidewalk, at 21958 and 21962 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, Los Angeles County. (SMH-V) [APPROVED WITH CONDITIONS]
BTT!!!!!
The method can make new rural-suburban lots available for redevelopment using environmental laws in much the same manner as applied to owners of target tracts of acreage properties. As you recall, Measure J had other effects besides chewing up the forest in big chunks. Prior to the election, the people who held small suburban lots in small rural towns owned something that could support a residential structure, worth about the same as any other small urban lot. After the passage of Measure J, a once buildable 3/4-acre lot in town worth $50,000 (in current dollars), a fell to about one-fifth its prior value. Their land was worth-less.
Well call this one, The Squeeze:
Now that those worth-less lots are worth lots, why didnt the bag-holders keep them?
One has to wonder if there were politicians out there, clever enough to realize that they could serve the developers, the anti-development activists, and the environmentalists, all in one policy swoop. It all seemed so plausible, repetitive, and ubiquitous.
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Are politicians and planning bureaucrats really smart enough to set up a system like this, or was this just a misattribution of random events and human nature suffering from the creative scrutiny of some paranoid author? Every lawyer and planner interviewed during the research for this book who was asked that question, stated flatly that the politicians arent that smart and are ideologically opposed to such things. The subject of one interview how-ever, was (unknown to me at the time) one of the very people who had made oodles of money in the land conversion business. His comment was that there are people who are that smart, and that certain authors should be careful.
The purpose of this book is not to bust people but to point out the systemic flaws that develop when government does not respect private property rights as unalienable. That flaw is the lack of civic discipline that limited govern-ment under the Constitution was intended to provide; i.e., the power to feed one's urges with other people's money. It is the power to take control of property without compensation. It is the essence of democratic government.
>>As you know well ccg, both political parties are playing the game.
Yep--just follow the money. It's not too hard to see.
Yes, of course... God forbid that anyone should be allowed to venture forth from the puss of crime ridden sespools we call CA cities and flee unto the mountains of the Sierra-Nevada CONcravency to both own and CONTROL a small parcel of land with which to raise their offspring in the image of God and in favor with God and man!!!
It's NOT "Sustainable Development," it's suffocatable development outside the rotten city limits they're after!!!
Once again... Rural cleansing!!! But it's easy to see how easy it is for them to fool people... Look at all the FReepers that exhibit complete resignation to this Faciastic/Socialistic scheme!!! It's just breathtaking!!!
That response is why I cringe when those on our side label the masterminds behind the dark side as dumb. They are that smart and as dangerous as you were warned.
How absolutely right you are, oh Great Grampa!!!
Most Americans, conservative or moderate have zero clues to what is going on, why and very important-who is funding the action.
"In possession of what can only be called an evil genius, the dark side has patiently set up the demise of a constitutional republic, without firing a weapon."
The Eugenics/Euthanasia is good for Americans has been pushed by the limo drive elite of the dark side for about 7 decades. George $oro$ has invested over $45 million to make Americans place Eugenics/Euthanasia as another core building block like abortion for the dark side.
what planet are you from?...there are a lot of nice places to live besides the land just east of san diego.
affordable housing does not require a condo developers free-for-all. affordable housing involves rental reform, community activism, and other political actions that do not impede the work of environmentalists.
You know .. you people immediately expose who you are when you start your conversations by insulting people.
I've lived in San Diego for over 20 years. I've seen housing and rental rates go through the roof - because several building projects have been squashed by environmental groups who won't allow certain sections of "scrub brush" land to be reconstituted so humans can live there. The housing projects bring in trees and plants and encourage new businesses to expand.
This area has grown larger the last few years because of the increase in military activity. We need those lands in order to have cheaper housing. So .. while the environmental people are whining continually about gas emissions - they force people to live farther away from their jobs - causing them to travel more .. somehow that logic escapes me.
You signed up today. Hit and run poster?
I could refute your post with logic, but it's not worth it if you're only a hit and run.
i am awaiting the logical response.
The short answer is that it is a supply and demand problem. Housing is a commodity like any other, and no amount of trying to mandate "affordable housing" or whatever is going to solve the root problem. Rent reform (you did not define any details or give an insight into how it would work) can't help if there aren't enough housing units to begin with.
In Davis, there was a no growth policy. At the same time, the number of enrollments at the university was growing. Apartment vacancy was at less than 1%, and rents were skyrocketing. Homeowners in Davis started building additions to their homes, so they were living on properties with no yards and all house, so that they could rent to students. The Davis city council (the great thinkers that they are < /src >) did not like that, so decided to legislate against it. I'm not sure if rent control was considered, but would it have helped get students into apartments (which were nonexistant)? What finally happened (after a few years of no vacancies) is that the Davis city council allowed a few more apartment buildings to be constructed, the vacancy rate went from less than 1% to over 5 or 10%, and apartment building owners started offering incentives to move into their buildings. Alleviating the housing shortage was the only workable solution.
It is common leftist belief that a supply problem can be fixed by legislation rather than by fixing the actual supply problem. If legislation could fix shortages, the USSR would have been the land of milk and honey.
"Young couples can't afford $625,000.00 for a home, and that is what mine just appraised for."
Enjoy it while you can. The eventual rise in interest rates will likely bring about a much overdue correction in housing prices.
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