Posted on 08/04/2010 11:49:19 AM PDT by La Lydia
The Senate Banking Committee passed the Livable Communities Act on Tuesday, moving the bill one step closer to final passage. The bill creates $4 billion in neighborhood planning grants for “sustainable” living projects and a new federal office to oversee them. Similar legislation in the House has been criticized by Republicans on the House Budget Committee, who charge that “the program’s aim is to impose a Washington-based, central planning model on localities across the country.”
In the Senate version, written by outgoing Chairman Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), the Livable Communities Act would designate $4 billion to aid local governments in planning high-density, walkable neighborhoods.
Premised on helping local governments to combat suburban sprawl and traffic congestion, the bill sets up two separate grant programs......
To administer and regulate these new grants, the bill creates the Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities (OSHC) within the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
The legislation is designed to prod local communities toward high-density, public transit-oriented neighborhoods that concentrate large numbers of people into small geographic areas connected by train and bus networks.
These high-density neighborhoods would be combined with high-density commercial districts that – in theory – would reduce the need for daily driving and commuting....
Democrats spending $4 billion to promote density? That sounds about right.
It’s also very useful for what the left likes best about government power -
punishing your enemies and rewarding your friends.
Whose property will be made worthless because of rezoning
and whose will be made more valuable?
Obama forcing “whitey” into the projects.
Go to http://www.freedom21.org for more information on sustainable development, agenda 21, international baccalaureate, and “smart growth” schemes.
Dr Ron Utt at Heritage has done a lot of research on this, although it seems that Freepers already understand the scam.
The bill creates $4 billion in neighborhood planning grants for “sustainable” living projects and a new federal office to oversee them.
So much wrong...so little time....
Why does EVERY BILL have “a new federal office”??!?? Are they saying that federal employees are so overburdened with work that they can’t take on any extra work?
Attention Anyone who owns any land: if you are still voting Democrat, you are insane.
I would highly recommend that EVERYONE here go back to the seventies and read the fantastic book, The Russians, by Hedrick Smith. I read it before my first trip there in ‘77 and it was SO helpful and eye-opening.
Mr. Smith wrote a sequel after the offical ‘fall’ of communism, but you all should really read The Russians, now in paperback.
Just building Projects......
Re: “While Commissars like Dodd luxuriate in their spacious dachas in the country, the wretched proles get to eke out a subsistence living in dreary block housing built by union labor with inferior foreign construction materials. Sounds familiar. Still think they aren’t really Communists, America?”
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Nope — well before the ‘08 election I already KNEW they were Communists, as did many of us here.
Substitute "prod" for "oar," and there you have it.
I’m thinking an ACORN bumper sticker would result in a positive outcome for many under this scheme.
Yep. Most of us who frequent this IP address had Obama’s number a long time ago. Sadly, that didn’t stop the propagandist media from bamboozling many others into thinking he was a smart, competent, centrist unifier when in fact he was none of those things at all.
Back when I was working, I would make occasional calls on Montgomery Ward, who’s headquarters was near Cabrini Green. There were times we drove past that project, but would never, ever, consider stopping for a red light...
Damn, you’re good!
I love it...got a question, a vague memory...and someone on FR solves it in minutes!
ping for later
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