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SAN DIEGO ---- Regional planners are polling San Diego County residents to see if they would support a special "quality of life" tax to fund beach-sand replenishment, open-space purchases, habitat restoration and water-quality programs, an agency official said Thursday. The funding source could come in the form of a sales, property, hotel or rental-car tax, and could appear on the county ballot in 2008, said Rob Rundle, principal planner for the San Diego Association of Governments, the county's regional planning agency. Rundle said results of the telephone poll of 2,000 county registered voters will be reported to the association board...

Please help. I have been doing some research on this SMART GROWTH epidemic sweeping through America, a plan that aims to regulate all land use in the country from the top down. It starts innocently enough. Local governments are told they should come up with a plan to map out the future growth and development of their communities, and often an outside entity offers a sizable financial incentive to help with the anticipated costs. As these local plans are drawn up, they become collected by the next step in the government, usually at the county level, as the local county...