Posted on 07/30/2013 5:03:16 PM PDT by neverdem
Maybe because I hate urban sprawl and the fact that it threatens my family’s farm and many of my neighbors but I see the benefit of “stack and pack” policy.
Every year I see more and more good, productive farmland comsumed by urban sprawl as we are losing our farming heritage.
As well as food security.
But I also hate government telling people what to do with their lives.
Damned if you, damned if you don’t...
Just damned....
If they can blend your kids and grandkids into the herd before long everyone will be nice and subdued.
Mark Levin was all over this last week.
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ORINDA —The city of Orinda could soon be in compliance with state housing law requirements for the first time if officials agree to rezone a piece of land to accommodate more affordable housing.
State law requires that cities and towns have a certified housing element for meeting housing needs for residents of all income levels.
According to the Regional Housing Need Allocation, the city must show it can accommodate a certain number of very low-, low-, moderate- and market-rate housing units.
Some Orinda residents on Monday, worried about the housing plan, told the council an influx of residents could change the city’s “semirural character,” affect schools and impact property values. Others questioned the state mandates, and urged the council to “push back” on housing requirements.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_23503640/orinda-residents-council-clash-housing
While one can have sympathy for the over-levered, underwater homeowners that took free-money with both hands and feet as house prices surged in the mid-2000s (just like they are now) but the latest moves to ‘save’ people from themselves in the city of Richmond, CA is raising both market and constitutional concerns. As NYTimes reports, the city is the first to use eminent domain by the local government (in partnership with a ‘friendly’ mortgage provider) to seize homes, force investors to take a loss on the mortgages, re-issue a new ‘lower’ mortgage, and allow the homeowner back with positive equity
http://www.zerohedge.com/node/477013
The entire state of NJ has already been converted to this zoning regime.
NJ being slightly different in the fact that with or without zoning changes, the entire state will be built out within 40 to 60 years, as in every single parcel of buildable land will have been built upon.
I’m pretty sure SanFran region has open space available for further sprawl.
Most of the more aggressive rezoning schemes in NJ simply collapse upon the inherit contradictions and internal failures of logic.
Very few places in the US have successfully planned for the next 30 years, even in SanFran, the SF Central Chinatown subway to Nowhere plans (at least a $!.6B price tag) have completely stalled due to common sense prevailing.
Nice job!
Oh, spare us.
Letting the market figure it out is the least bad of all the terrible ways... until the place really is ruled by God.
Thank you.
(I cheated and used Quatro Pro, w/ it's Publish to Internet
command.
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The ghettos are arising/arriving, sooner than most of us, think would be possible. Take good care, Patriots. Now.
All I can say is: They better keep their feet on the sidewalks.
When the government starts herding people into cities, it is time to go hard and fast to rural areas.
I reckon so.....
Impeachment File on Benghazi Coward “B. Hussein Obama,” formerly known as Barry Soetoro, currently a Legal Citizen of the Sovereign Nation of Indonesia.
Revolt is coming.
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