ONE BAY AREA: BAY OF TRICKS 02/15/2012
ASSOCIATION OF BAY AREA GOVERNMENTS ATTEMPTS TO MEET SECRETLY WITH ACTIVISTS If you've been following our actions at the ONE BAY AREA meetings with other groups, including East Bay Tea Party, 9-12 groups, property rights groups, and other Tea Parties, you know that we have deeply upset the game the Government (Association of Bay Area Governments--ABAG, and Metropolitan Transportation Commission--MTC in league with their public/private partners, Silicon Valley Partnership and Greenbelt Alliance) is playing. The Delphi game is to pretend, and get you to believe, that your input is solicited to craft the plan when in fact it is already set up before you show up. This is a Regional Plan, a stepping stone to Mega Regions and then to Global Government. We haven't been going along to get along. So out of the hundreds of people who attended their 'workshops,' in the 9 county Bay Area, out of the 7.5 million people in the Bay Area who would have questions about this plan if they knew about it, just four of us have been invited to a private meeting with ABAG-MTC. Who are we? Heather Gass, East Bay Tea Party Leader; Mimi Steel, 9-12 Leader; Carol Tomlinson, Tea Party Leader; and me. Here's the email they sent: Ms. Koire: The Executive Directors of MTC and ABAG are extending an invitation to meet with them at the MetroCenter to discuss issues and matters brought up at the Winter 2012 PlanBayArea workshops. There are three possible meeting times - one will be selected based on availability of invitees. Please reply to accept the invitation and indicate your preferred meeting date. Thursday, Feb 16, between 1:00 pm and 2:00 pm Friday, Feb 17, between 3:00 pm and 5:00 pm Friday, 3/2/12, between 9:00 am 11:00 am regards, JoAnna Bullock Senior Grant Administrator, Urban Planner JoAnna Bullock JoAnnaB@abag.ca.gov Association of Bay Area Governments MetroCenter 101 Eighth Street Oakland, CA 94607 I had been checking into the American Planning Association propaganda and saw that they have now put out a seminar on how to handle us. That's you and me. So this is what I sent back: You must have gotten this guide from the APA. "Preparation Second, be proactive Reach out to groups likely to oppose Request a meeting with them to listen to concerns and ideas Do not try to change their minds –collect their input Encourage them to provide you with materials (books, websites, etc.) Research local activist networks" But Heather wanted to get more information. I'm glad she did. Here's her exchange: Ms. Bullock, I have several questions about this invitation that need to be cleared up before I consider attending. Will this be a publicly noticed meeting subject the Brown Act and open to the public, Executive Session or an informal (private) meeting not subject to the Brown Act? Who are the invitees? Is this open to the public or to just a handful of people? Which MTC/ABAG Executive Directors will be in attendance? Also, I am unclear as to the purpose of this meeting? What “Issues and Matters” will be discussed. I would like an agenda for the meeting. Heather Gass ------------- Ms. Gass, This is a invitation to meet informally with the executive director of MTC, Steve Hemminger and the executive director of ABAG, Ezra Rapport. The invitation was extended to the following attendees of the PBA public workshops: Carol Thomlison Rosa Koire Mimi Steele This will be an informal meeting, not a public meeting - no elected officials will be present so it is not subject to the Brown Act. The purpose of the meeting is to provide an opportunity to those that expressed issues and dissent at the PBA workshops to speak directly with the executive directors. The executive directors prefer no agenda - this is opportunity for open dialogue. regards, JoAnna Bullock Senior Grant Administrator, Urban Planner How bout that, folks? Now they want an 'open dialogue' outside of the eyes and ears of the public and for the sole purpose of finding out about us. FORGET ABOUT IT. NO GOOD GERMANS. Add Comment PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO YOUR EMAIL LISTS--It's important. THIS IS WHAT A REVOLUTION LOOKS LIKE You are witnessing a plan that is being implemented all across the United States NOW. It has many names but it's the same plan. UN AGENDA 21/SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: Sustainable Cities Strategy. It is a regional plan that creates unelected boards of elected officials who are engaged in erasing the boundaries between cities, counties, and states. You are losing your ability to influence your government policies at the same time that you are being solicited for your opinion. It's a tactic to silence you. This is the Delphi method of manipulating groups and controlling populations that may protest. By 2050, or sooner, there will be 11 Mega-Regions in the United States that include parts of Mexico and Canada. This is not a delusional rant. This is a fact. Go to www.America2050.org What are these plans called? Your government is using similar names for all of these plans and they are all the same: Regional. They are being rolled out NOW. The adoption date is MID-2013. ALL OVER THE US. Most of us are unaware that the plan we are fighting is the same plan, with minor variations, being imposed in the name of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, expanding public transportation, and funding low-income housing. All plans include Smart Growth--high density housing with restrictions on personal space and car usage. All plans support high speed trains--the building block of Mega-Regions. All plans give power to regional transportation and planning boards (MPOs and COGs) through federal and state fund disbursements. In all plans housing and transportation are now linked. In all plans population projections are hugely inflated. All plans will go forward as planned regardless of your input. This is a planning revolution. Here are just a few places around the country using the word "VISION" a UN Agenda 21 buzz word. There are many others with similar names using the sustainability jargon. These are just a few of the thousands in the US and around the world (for example, the Hanoi Center Regional Plan is exactly the same)
Not on our watch. Awareness is the first step in the Resistance. Action is the second step.
NEAR RIOT AT DELPHI MEETING IN SANTA ROSA 01/11/2012
Please refer to my following post (1/09/12) for the set up on this story. VIDEO UP ON OUR VIDEO PAGE. Two nights ago about 50 citizen activists turned a ONE BAY AREA public Delphi meeting in Santa Rosa, CA upside down. WE REFUSED TO BE GOOD GERMANS. What happened? We spoke out, video'd (video is on our 'Videos' page), entered the meeting without signing in, refused to be railroaded, continually corrected the government/consultant lies and called them out, did not participate in the phony 'voting', did not give our names to the establishment press, brought in cameras and signs, flyered warning the organizers not to violate the open meeting laws, and did not get arrested although police were called. We exercised our rights as Americans. BUT, we can learn from this video---we need to do more civil disobedience than was exhibited by this brave group. If you sit passively the facilitators will assume you agree with the plan. If you show up, SPEAK UP: Do Not Sit Passively. Hold Up Signs. Get out of your comfort zone. This is no time to go along to get along, or to sit quietly. Who are we? A coalition of independent citizens from all over the SF Bay Area, Democrats, Property Rights Advocates, Tea Party members, Republicans, Libertarians, non-affiliated Independents---brave Americans standing together to resist tyranny. What is ONE BAY AREA? A regional plan to direct federal and state transportation dollars over the next 25 years to specific cities that have agreed to ONLY approve smart growth and ONLY approve it in limited pre-designated areas of just a few towns in the entire San Francisco Bay Area. Using ridiculously inflated population projections, ONE BAY AREA states that future housing must designed in one of their 'approved' smart growth models and developed in a Priority Development Area. What is that? A Priority Development Area (PDA) is a so-called transportation corridor---usually a busy street with a bus line or near a proposed train station. This PDA can be as small as a half-block or as large as a square mile. All of the projected new population for the next 25 years will be accommodated by housing within this designated area. No other housing developments will be approved for the next 25 years---or the city will not get their piece of the transportation funding. We're talking about 200 Billion dollars of federal and state transportation dollars for the SF Bay Area over the 25 year term. Do you see what this will do to property values outside of the specific PDA's? It will destroy them. Do you see what this does to individual cities? It destroys their sovereignty. ONE BAY AREA is a regional plan that breaks down boundaries and pushes UN Agenda 21. Northern California is one of 11 Mega Regions in the US. It includes 31 counties, 48,000 square miles, 15 million people, and part of TWO STATES--California and NEVADA. Do you see how this happens? We thought we had 50 states, but now we have ELEVEN MEGA REGIONS. Using transportation dollars, grants, legislation (SB 375 & AB 32 in California), and pressure, your government is destroying your ability to be self-determining. Video is up now on our site (video page) and on YouTube. Watch it and USE IT. We guarantee you that you'll have a chance real soon. NOTICE YOU ARE BEING DELPHI’D This meeting is designed to manipulate and direct public opinion to approve the One Bay Area Plan The Delphi Method is being used to create the illusion that this is your plan and that you have some part in crafting the outcome. This is a technique developed by the RAND Corporation in the 1960’s which is used by meeting facilitators to block opposition and discard opinions that do not support their plan. This propaganda method uses peer pressure to shame and silence you. ONE BAY AREA is being used to regionalize the SF Bay Area and erase the city, county, and ultimately, State boundaries. Your transportation tax dollars will be used to build apartments and condos in designated areas of your city---and nowhere else. Your money will directed to favored developers building stack and pack housing. You are losing the ability to direct your elected officials through this plan to destroy local representation. This is happening across the US. There are now 11 Mega Regions designed to replace States. Northern California is one of the Mega Regions (it includes part of Nevada), with over 48,000 square miles and 15 million residents. ONE BAY AREA is UN Agenda 21 ATTEND THE MEETING: FINLEY CENTER, W. COLLEGE AVENUE 5:45 PM NOTICE YOU CANNOT BE DENIED ACCESS TO THIS MEETING OPEN MEETING LAWS IN CALIFORNIA: THE BROWN ACT Meetings of public bodies must be ‘open and public,’ actions may not be secret, and action taken in violation of open meeting laws may be voided. (Section 54953(a), 54953(c), 54960.1(d) WHO IS COVERED? · Local agencies, including counties, cities, school and special districts (Section 54951) · Legislative bodies of each agency—the agency’s governing body plus ‘covered boards,’ that is any board, commission, committee, task force, or other advisory body created by the agency, whether permanent or temporary (Section 54952(b)) WHAT MUST HAPPEN? Under the Brown Act an agency must: · Post notice and an agenda · Notify the media · Hold meetings in the jurisdiction of the agency in places accessible to all, with no fee (Section 54961(a)) · Not require a ‘sign-in’ or registration for anyone · Allow non-disruptive recording of the meeting · Allow the public to address the covered board THE REDEVELOPMENT VAMPIRE IS DEAD. Congratulations to the Institute of Justice law firm and to all of us who have been fighting Redevelopment. The Courts have supported what we have known for years: Redevelopment is a vampire that has been sucking the tax dollars out of our roads, schools, police and fire, hospitals, parks, our general funds and our lives for more than 60 years. The Santa Rosa Neighborhood Coalition fought the City of Santa Rosa to stop the Gateways Redevelopment Project. Although we lost after a 3 year fight (2006-2009), we feel vindicated by this landmark decision by the California Supreme Court. Calling over 5 square miles of our city blighted so that money can be diverted to bond brokers and crony developers is wrong. Now the courts have made it crystal clear: The city cannot steal our property tax dollars any longer. Redevelopment is supported by cronies, by developers, by unions with connections (North Bay Labor Council), lawyers, private consultants, city staffers, the list goes on. All had their hands out for the money train. None had scruples enough to admit that diverting our hard-earned tax dollars into their pockets was wrong. Now the courts have spoken. Redevelopment is dead. What’s next? Infrastructure Tax Districts. They don’t have the power of eminent domain but they do have the power to divert transportation tax dollars into the hands of private developers for ‘Smart Growth’. This is what they mean when they say ‘Sustainable Communities.’ Sustainable Development is the Green Mask. Join the fight. Visit our websites for more information. For the Steering Committee Rosa Koire, ASA Santa Rosa Neighborhood Coalition THE LONE STAR STATE 11/07/2011
I visited Texas speaking about UN Agenda 21 and how it is implemented. I wish I could say that it's better in Texas but it's all the same programs and projects with slightly different names all over the nation. One thing I can say for Texans in Houston and Dallas: They don't appear to be as brainwashed as our Sonoma County residents. Once they get the big picture they're ready to take action against local elected officials who won't KICK ICLEI OUT and clean Sustainable Development out of their General Plans. Sonoma County is a sad case but that doesn't mean that we can't wake up and shake up our fellow liberals to see that the environmental movement has been hijacked by people like Michael Allen, Lisa Maldonado, and Norman Soloman. And what about Alan Strachan and Dennis Hunter? Global Legacy? PACE Loans? $5 TRILLION IN GREEN LOANS? These manipulators use all the right jargon to get you going. But, my friends, as anyone who has been abused knows, the rhetoric is just talk. You have to look at their actions. As I've said before, being a Sociailst is ok in America but don't put 'Democrat' under your name when you're running for office. Progressives are Socialists. Oh, I don't mean you. You think it's cool to be progressive. You like the IDEA of sharing the wealth, just not your own. Right? Are you honest? Willing to have a couple of families move into your house permanently? Willing to give up half of your pay? Or have you lost your job due to a total manipulation of our economy and you're now willing to promote socialism? It doesn't work. Utopia is a lovely idea. Everyone has lots of everything, no one has to do what they don't want to do, lots of smiling people, bikes, and blue skies. Does the Stalin experiment ring a bell or haven't you heard? What about Mao? Great idea, right? Take the wealth away from the princes and give it to the people. What happened? Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Won't get fooled again. So the Texans are looking at UN Agenda 21 in the form (besides Smart Growth, Comprehensive Plans linked to Metropolitan Planning Organizations in a regional brew that steals their sovereignty, just like yours) of TTC--the TransTexas Corridor, Highway 35. Enters the nation in Texas, exits at the Canadian border, and links the North American Union. You don't care about sovereignty, you say? You have faith that you'll be taken care of, that government is good and you'll live happily ever after? What about WTO? Have you forgotten the Battle of Seattle? Oh, you think government is great? What about those slimeballs at SMART? Or do you like the idea that THE ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS? Only when you like the ends, right? And who says that the 'end' is what you think it will be? What is happening with the OCCUPY thing? Have you stopped to ask yourself why you think it's cool that anyone would OCCUPY the center of your city? Are you playing with the idea that you're at WAR WITH THE MAN? It's stupid. The government has allowed itself to be taken over by mega corporations. The only concrete thing I've heard from the whole movement is that you should move your money to a credit union. What is this? A credit union backed occupation? It's a BANK WAR. And you're in your tent. Doing your obedient call and response--yes, master, hear and repeat, master. I urge you to think about all of this--it is a manipulation, a distraction. YOUR COUNTRY HAS BEEN TAKEN OVER BY MEGA CORPORATIONS AND YOU ARE LOSING YOUR CIVIL LIBERTIES. NOW. KICK ICLEI OUT. STOP AGENDA 21. NAME THE PROGRESSIVES SOCIALISTS AND MOVE ON FROM THERE. Get up, Stand up. notSMART TRAIN: The Greenhouse Gas Mask 06/10/2011
Sonoma Marin Area Regional Transportation--SMART train, ain't either. Get this: The OneBayArea.org plan, a regional transportation and housing plan in the implementation stage NOW, aims to restrict the construction of all new residential units in the Bay Area along just a few ‘transportation corridors.’ Now, it doesn’t matter if there is actually a train, since we know there isn't enough money to build it. Just the expectation of the train is enough according to the Metropolitan Transportation District (MTC). The idea is that you can’t get public transportation cost effectively to the rural and suburban areas, therefore you need to move all of the people in to the city center. The deal is that if cities in the Bay Area want any of the MTC transportation dollars in the next 25 years, the cities have to agree not to approve any residential development anywhere but in the redevelopment areas along train tracks and bus lines. That means high density condo development–vertical sprawl. If you think this is a good thing take a look at where you’re living now. Are you in a condo next to the railroad tracks? With higher gas prices and VMT (vehicle miles traveled tax) coming your way, you’ll effectively be forced to take public transportation…even when there isn’t any. That’s the case with notSmart. You won’t be able to afford your car and your county roads won’t be paved out to your rural or suburban home. You’ll be moved into the vertical sprawl next to the tracks. This is UN Agenda 21. This is a manipulation and a green mask for controlling where we live and how we live. By putting the greenhouse gas mask on it these regional boards can dictate who gets our tax money and keep pounding sand dollars down the rat hole of notSmart. See Democrats Against UN Agenda 21 dot com for more info. It's a STEAMROLLER, baby 05/26/2011
We got Delphi'd big time the other night and that train is headed your way. You know that being 'Delphi'd' means that you were subjected to a visioning meeting where the outcome was a done-deal before you walked in the room. They're calling it 'YOU CHOOSE' but the reality is that the only thing that makes it yours is that your taxes pay for it and it will be imposed on you. The plan, OneBayArea, is regional. It's a transportation plan primarily but that's just the excuse for creating a huge master plan based on redevelopment that includes land use restrictions. Basically it's a stack-em and pack-em housing model for an enormous UN Agenda 21/ICLEI plan. Moving you out of your rural and suburban home into a tightly designed, easily monitored apartment or condo with no space for your car and lousy public transportation. A combination of high gas prices, loss of services in the suburbs, reduced speed limits, and failure to pave county roads will pressure you into the city. The story you'll hear is that the only way that people will take public transportation is if they are crowded into downtown areas, and giving up cars is the main way to stop greenhouse gases. What about electric cars? We're told that driving is anti-social and besides WE NEED EXERCISE! The facilitators, by the way, are complete hypocrites who live in single family homes...just ask them. And they drove to the meeting, too. Greenhouse gases are the green mask. Regionalism--the intermediate step in globalization, and the method by which laws, rules, and regulations can be standardized so that you can't escape them. In the case of OneBayArea.org the regional push is to restrict future development to redevelopment areas ONLY. Did you get that? If you own land outside of those areas you will not be able to build on it. Now we didn't say 'land outside of the city limits'---no. Land outside of a redevelopment area, outside of a transportation corridor will not be buildable. This is stunning. If your city wants to get a piece of the big funding pie for transportation and planning in the SF Bay Area it has to agree that for the next 25 years the only development will happen within the redevelopment area boundaries. Why are they doing it in redevelopment areas? Because they have the power of eminent domain there and can take your land and give to another private person. The city/county can take the property taxes in that area for the next 30-45 years and use it to pay off bond debt and pay their cronies to develop SmartGrowth. Hear that thunder? It's sellers running to dump their property outside of redevelopment areas and buyers racing to buy within those areas. But quietly, stealthily, because you haven't woken up to it yet. OK---the meeting. If you've never experienced a Delphi meeting you're in for a shock. Although the facilitators SAY that it's all about hearing your opinion, in fact if you dare to say anything or ask any question that doesn't agree with the steamrollering propaganda machine you'll be shouted down. Yep, supposedly decent Americans from your own community will shout at you like a feral mob and scream that THEY DON'T WANT TO KNOW where the funding for the project came from. THEY DON'T WANT TO KNOW how much the project is costing them. THEY DON'T WANT TO KNOW why the entire plan/project was pre-designed even though it's supposedly being shaped by the public. How much is it costing? $200,000,000,000. THAT'S 200 BILLION DOLLARS JUST IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA. If you want to keep your community the way it is now it's called 'Business As Usual' and they'll shame you. The choices you are supposed to pick are 'Planned Future' with more and more urban development and more government control. The facilitators go to work on you if you don't want to go along with the program. Punishment, shaming, isolation. The room was packed with elected officials, government employees, non-profit groups, board and committee appointees who made sure that the outcome was the 'right' one. WHY? Your government/public-private partnership corporate ruler needs you to buy the illusion that you have some say in what happens to you so that you'll BELIEVE THAT YOU LIVE IN A FREE COUNTRY. Funny thing is that you live in a Republic that is run as a Democracy. Mob rule is supposed to be controlled by the legal system but unfortunately the courts are part of it. They don't want you to make trouble for them while they sew up the new totalitarian state. We suggest that you get a copy of 1984 by George Orwell and read it. It's the blueprint for the 21st century. Read up. Stand up. Speak out. GO TO THE MEETINGS. STOP ICLEI. STOP REDEVELOPMENT--THE FUNDING AND EMINENT DOMAIN ARM OF UN AGENDA 21. Top Down Control: ONE BAY AREA 05/11/2011
There are Delphi meetings going on all over the nine county Bay Area right now. Put on by www.OneBayArea.org they are public/private meetings organized by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Association of Bay Area Governments, and local agencies and groups. As you know, a Delphi meeting is set up on the premise that the organizer is 'welcoming the public's input' but the truth is that the outcome of the meeting was determined in advance. The public is there for a propaganda session and to give the illusion that there was public buy-in. Typically participants are given crayons and paper like children and told to 'design' a perfect community. This utopia was miraculously envisioned in advance and is produced on colored maps with lots of pretty pictures of middle class people recreating. The goal is to homogenize the Bay Area and the nation with 'smart growth'--mixed use developments subsidized by your tax dollars, with ground floor shops and two to four stories of residential units above. Very little parking, very little open space, few private outdoor areas. Constructed right next to a busy street or rail-line (active or not), these condo and apartment developments discourage private vehicles. Planning documents for each and every city and county are standardized and brought into alignment with this idea. No one can get anything built that does not conform to this plan, and only subsidized developers (cronies) can get their projects built. Banks won't lend on these projects without government guarantees because they often have high vacancy, crime, and poor maintenance. Typically the retail space never rents up or rents for far less than the developer expected. Often the developer has gotten a private loan from an elderly investor who then loses everything. Up here in Sonoma County we have developers Alan Strachan and Orin Theissen as the most infamous for that behavior. And you'll recall that Alan Strachan had been poised to offer 'Green Energy Loans' as a boondoggle pushed by the sponsors of One Bay Area. This is social engineering. These developments are designed for the minimum of privacy, and to allow controlling energy and water agencies the option of limiting your usage without your input. In the guise of environmentalism the stress of living will increase through greater regulation and restrictions. PLAN TO ATTEND THIS MEETING (read about Delphi meetings first) Sonoma County* Wednesday, May 18, 2011, 5:30-8:30 p.m. The Glaser Center 547 Mendocino Avenue, Santa Rosa Register VERTICAL SPRAWL IN ELNOKA 03/28/2011
Last year, Rosa Koire coined the term 'Vertical Sprawl' for the new urbanist high density development being touted as the solution for a non-existent problem of too many homes in the suburbs. Unless the problem is that not enough tax revenue is being siphoned off to crony-developers who expect to get big subsidies from Redevelopment Agencies. Locals like Laura Hall and Lois Fisher have made a business out of redesigning city centers and selling form-based zoning codes (a one-size-fits-all model) to brainwashed city officials all over the nation. Now that this top heavy style of bloated government/public partnerships is failing some 'environmental crony groups' like LIEE, Sonoma County Conservation Action, and Greenbelt Alliance are whining that there might not be enough money for them in the future. They're counting on your ignorance and compliance to swallow the empty so-called green rhetoric that they're pushing. High density urban development like the 4 story Moore Building that sits nearly empty on Healdsburg Avenue and 10th in downtown Santa Rosa. The family that built that with their savings lost everything. Crony developers and the groups they fund, like Sonoma County Conservation Action, along with the fake greens, the train proponents, are in it to influence politicians, get contracts, get subsidies, and manipulate regulations. Who gets hurt? You. Elnoka is a perfect example. The high density housing project to be built against the wishes of the neighboring low density senior development. Where is it? Out in the boonies. No need for high density there, but the developer wants it and has the rhetoric to get the green power trippers on his side. Green: the color of money. It's for your own good---it's Communitarianism and UN AGENDA 21. | Eyes on Santa RosaCalling it as we see it ArchivesMay 2012 CategoriesAll |
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