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Recent Plan Bay Area speech

5/18/2013

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I’m scheduled to give you an update on what’s happening around
the
nation and I will, in a minute.

First, I want to talk about
One Bay Area/PLAN BAY AREA and Agenda 21/Sustainable
Development.

Keep in mind that globalization is the
standardization of systems. Making systems uniform so that they can be managed
through a computer with the most efficiency and control is the goal. When the
systems are controlled the people are
controlled.  

Efficiency is the mask for this
totalitarian takeover. Regionalization is the interim step to globalization and,
ultimately, to a single central
control.  In order to implement
regionalization local political boundaries must be blurred and erased. 
Although the forms may exist for a period of time, there will be no actual power
in the local governments.  Unelected boards and commissions will dictate
local action for common good.  The common good is identified as that which
fragments and destroys social cohesion.  Individuals will serve
the
Communitarian ideal.  So this is a circle that is made tighter and tighter
as time progresses. Dissent necessarily becomes a threat to the common good
and individual expression will be restricted to whatever supports the common
good.  

The individual who functions well in this
society is insane. 
We’re seeing the results of this pressure now in
our culture.

You know that an integral part of Plan Bay Area
is the identification of Planned Development Areas in specific narrow locations
in existing or proposed transit corridors. When this plan was being
developed as the Compact for a Sustainable Bay Area back in 1997-2003 much of
the funding was expected to come from Redevelopment property tax
diversion.  Conceptually the idea was that areas could be declared blighted
under the Health and Safety Code and then bonded debt could be sold to pay for
high density development---development for which there is little demand so it
needs government subsidies.  Redevelopment areas could be rezoned via
Specific Plans which also made them perfect for smart growth.  Transit
oriented development and infill development could be designed into the
Redevelopment projects and would basically be immune to challenge because of the
Health and Safety Code blight findings.

Redevelopment in
California ended in 2012 and this is an inconvenience for SB 375 and AB32-- the
Sustainable Communities Strategies laws that implement Agenda 21 for land use
here in California.  HUD grants, the Partnership for Sustainable
Communities Grants, the One Bay Area Grant program, and Transportation grants
all step up to fill in the infrastructure financing gap.  We know that even
though CARB has established greenhouse gas reduction targets of 7% below 2005
levels by 2020 and 15% below 2005 levels by 2035 it doesn’t say how to do
that.  Rather than having, say, better CAFÉ standards or increasing bus
service, we’re seeing mass transit fare increases and service reduction all over
the Bay Area. 

Money for high speed rail will bleed us for decades,
and the North Bay SMART train won’t even link to the ferry system to San
Francisco.  If it’s not making sense you can be sure it’s Agenda
21.  
 
The Hegelian Dialectic is at play here: Create a
crisis and then
propose the solution. The so-called compromise is the
plan you would never had considered without the crisis. 


Now I want to talk about action.  Legal
action.

When PDAs were proposed to cities they had no idea that PDAs were
a restriction on development inside of the Urban Growth Boundaries for a
generation. Cities thought this was just a way to get funds for development and
infrastructure in their core transportation areas. The One Bay Area Preferred
Scenario, already passed by MTC and ABAG, states that roughly 80% of all new
housing units are to be built in the Priority Development
Areas. Enforcement appears to be based on whether or not the affected
cities will be receiving transportation grants to support the new
development.  Non-compliance would mean less money for the cities that do
not go along with the plan.

One Bay Area states that 66% of
all new employment is to be within PDA boundaries. Properties with
commercial space, office buildings, factories, and industrial uses could be
worthless under this plan if they are outside the
PDAs.  
 
How would permits be granted and employment
rights be given?  Do the quotas for the PDAs have to be achieved first and
then go to the respective 20% and 34% figures?  What if those numbers are
not achieved?  What criteria will be used to decide who gets development
rights and who doesn't? It is significant that ABAG population projections are
roughly double those of the Department of Finance.  ABAG and MTC project
the Bay Area population to increase by 2 million by 2035, while the Dept of
Finance estimates just 1.7 million by 2060. Over-predictions of population
virtually guarantee that we will not reach the target development thresholds set
by MTC/ABAG.  
 
Most cities have voter approved urban
growth boundaries. 
The ordinances "encourage residential, commercial
and industrial growth in areas served by urban services'.  Development is
to be encouraged on all property within the UGB.

Within
these boundaries property owners have a reasonable expectation to develop their
property supported by city infrastructure in accordance with local
regulations.  The PDAs ignore these Urban Growth Boundaries and effectively
create new ones; the new non-voter-approved PDAs for 25 years. This is a
violation of local and state law.  
 
In addition to that,
under the 5th amendment of the US constitution, the takings clause states that
no land shall be taken without just compensation.  Effectively creating an
artificial restricted new Urban Growth Boundary within the existing Urban Growth
Boundary is a violation of the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment of
the US constitution.

Most cities in California have
increased density in all of their zoning—not just on residential zones. The
General Plans have increased development potential at the same time that it will
be restricted by One Bay Area.

Furthermore, state law
permits all single family residences in California to build a second unit if
certain criteria are met.  This law effectively upzoned all single family
properties so that most have development potential.  What the PDAs do is
damage every SFR --single family property-- that does not have a second unit on
it.  That means most of us have legal standing.

I have
agreements with three law firms to independently review
One Bay Area's
Final Draft Plan when it is released next month. 
We want to stop this
plan.  If MTC and ABAG are able to push this through we will lose our
constitutional protections all across the nation.  We're not interested in
a CEQA challenge.  This is a fight to stop the plan itself.  We need
to get ready to get our wallets out because this will be the fight of the
century. 
 
One last thing about this:  When Hitler
marched into Austria he met little resistance.  Why? Because the
dissenters had been rounded up in a single day and arrested.  How were
thousands of people identified in such a short time?  Every gathering, like
this one, had its spy.

I wouldn't be surprised if there were
a spy here in this room.  This is a very serious action we are proposing
and could have far reaching impacts on the entire country.  So with that in
mind I will say that if we lose against the MTC we will sue the cities and
the counties. 


And as far as the
news from the nation goes, the Resistance is growing fast and growing strong.
There are people all across the country who will contribute to this fight. This
year, 2013, will be the year that we reach critical awareness of UN Agenda
21/Sustainable Development.  

This year is the year that we break
through. 
DONATE TO STOP THIS PLAN.
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Whimsical Look at the Madness of Plan Bay Area

5/8/2013

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CLOSE TO HOME

5/7/2013

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CLOSE TO HOME --Submitted to the Santa Rosa Press Democrat

May 6, 2013

Rosa Koire
Executive Director
Post Sustainability Institute

We are suing to stop Plan Bay Area, the nine county land use and transportation plan which is a violation of your constitutional rights and a shocking overreach of the experiment in regional governance. 

Our nation is a constitutional republic with a framework of direct election that rises from local government through county, state, and up to the federal level.   This framework ensures that the peoples’ rights are protected and that our voices are heard.  Plan Bay Area is designed to empower a layer of regional government between state and county, and ultimately between state and federal which renders our voices irrelevant. These regional boards are not elected by the people; the board members are selected out of elected officials who support regional goals.

Regional boards like the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) are holding the purse strings for state and federal transportation and grant dollars.  MTC and ABAG have fabricated Plan Bay Area though they claim that it was crafted in response to the needs and desires of Bay Area residents.  Most people have never heard of Plan Bay Area.  Of the seven million residents of the Bay Area approximately three tenths of one percent have participated in the so-called planning sessions. These planning sessions were tailored to elicit responses that favor high density urban development (Smart Growth), the preferred scenario of Plan Bay Area.  Those voicing a dissenting opinion were virtually ignored, labeled as NIMBYs, or as political fringe.  As a liberal Democrat, registered since 1974, I recognize this kind of smear as a way of chilling our civil rights by attempting to intimidate those who reject Plan Bay Area’s blatant violation of property rights.

        PLAN BAY AREA violates the 5th Amendment of the US Constitution by taking property rights without just compensation.  By the creation of Priority Development Areas this Plan restricts 80% of residential development and 66% of commercial development to just a few small areas of your city--until the year 2040.  If your property is outside of the PDA (96% of property is outside) you will likely not be able to build or expand your building--and you won't be paid for this loss.
         
        PLAN BAY AREA violates the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution--the Equal Protection Clause.  Owners of properties in the Priority Development Areas will receive development permits at a rate of approximately 80 times more than owners of property outside of the Priority Development Areas.
     
        PLAN BAY AREA violates voter-approved Urban Growth Boundary ordinances.  Because the Priority Development Areas are within the UGBs but are much smaller restricted areas they are in violation of ordinances that clearly state that development must be encouraged out to the limits of city services: Urban Growth Boundaries. These ordinances are found throughout the Bay Area and cannot be changed without voter approval.

        PLAN BAY AREA permanently strips all development rights from rural properties in the nine county Bay Area.  Plan Bay Area is effectively taking conservation easements on all rural lands without paying for them. 

        PLAN BAY AREA restricts development rights of property within the Priority Development Areas, too.  Construction will be limited to mixed-use high density Smart Growth development.  Existing buildings are likely to be out of compliance with your city's General Plan (legal non-conforming) and permits to make additions or changes will likely not be granted.

This Plan is dependent on tax subsidies and handouts and will devastate the Bay Area for more than a generation.  Property rights are a foundation of our freedom and are non-partisan.  Join us now in stopping Plan Bay Area.


         

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