[conservative cat]

On the one hand, I favor property rights. On the other, I'm sick of watching more open space in California and elsewhere plowed under for yet more housing and mall development. We need rational land use planning and in its absence we get ridiculous exploitation of technicalities like this.

I totally agree. We are in the same situation in Washington- watching beautiful areas getting plowed under to build a bunch of generic McMansions with no yards or trees left over.

[Hawk1976]

I'm in agreement too. The developers have to be able to strike a medium between their needs and the needs of the community and nature. Their building a Walgreens within a one eighth of a mile of my house. There are already at least six drugstores within one mile, surely another isn't really needed for the community but why let that get in the way of it.

Then there are these planned communities, your neighbors backyard is your front yard, you can barely walk between the buildings, and of course the area was clear cut so you have no trees.

[muawiyah]

You just wait. Mt. Ranier is going to go off some day and the resulting landslides are going to cover up most of Seattle's more distant suburbs.