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SMART GROWTH PLANS KILL LOCAL BUSINESS

10/29/2013

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Once upon a time the Dibs family of Santa Rosa had a small business selling used cars.  They owned the lot and had it paid off, and made a nice living for their family.  In 2009 the City of Santa Rosa targeted them for an eminent domain action.  The City wanted to widen Santa Rosa Avenue right there at the Dibs' property.  First they low-balled the Dibs and then they finally agreed to pay them a fair price---the City said it really needed that land quick--that widening had to happen NOW.  


So the Dibs family moved to a property that they leased, that wasn't as good a location for them.  The City of Santa Rosa then did nothing with their old lot and didn't widen the street.  And it still hasn't.


Now, the Dibs' have come, hat in hand, to beg the City of Santa Rosa to let them buy Bob's RV Center on Santa Rosa Avenue at Highway 12.  Well, the City will let them buy it but they won't let them move their car lot onto a lot that was used for selling RVs because 'it's a different use and we don't want to see car lots on Santa Rosa Avenue anymore.'


What does the City want to see?  Smart Growth. Apartments over shops.  That's the VISION for Santa Rosa Avenue.  The City's General Plan/Comprehensive Plan says that MIXED USE is the preferred development for Santa Rosa Avenue.  They don't care that it has been an historically car-related street, the old Auto Row.  No, that's just not sustainable.  


Now the goal is to narrow the street down to just a couple of lanes and have a median strip and wide sidewalks and the walkable bikeable dreamland of community and joy (as long as you go along to get along). Except that isn't what people can build there because they'd go bankrupt in a minute.  Just like the building owners at 10th and Healdsburg did.  The former owners. They went bankrupt building a 4 story mixed use apartment building where the ground floor retail not only never rented up but never even got completed.  Go look in the windows.  Bare pipes and concrete.


So.  Where does that leave the Dibs and Bob Montgomery, the owner of Bob's RV Center who would like to retire? Yes, you guessed.  Another empty lot on Santa Rosa Avenue coming up.  The City is blighting the Avenue themselves by not allowing businesses, legal businesses, taxpaying businesses to get a use permit.  The City is preparing the Avenue by depressing the land values so that their crony developer can come along later, buy it cheap, and build Smart Growth with subsidies.


When the City held those visioning meetings for the General Plan it didn't matter at all what you had to say.  It was SMART GROWTH and that was it.


And that's the news from Santa Rosa.  

WE WILL STOP THIS.
FIGHT PLAN BAY AREA.  www.StopPlanBayArea.com
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LAWSUIT FILED AGAINST PLAN BAY AREA

10/26/2013

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The Post Sustainability Institute based in Santa Rosa has filed a lawsuit against MTC and ABAG to stop the unconstitutional regionalization of the San Francisco Bay Area.  If we lose this suit Plan Bay Area will overlay restrictions for land use over the entire nine county 101 city Bay Area.  The Plan calls for 80% of all future population increase to be housed in just 4% of the land area.  This is just a fraction of the land area within existing Urban Growth Boundaries, and nearly all of this small area is fully developed now.  In addition to residential restrictions, 66% of all new employment/commercial development must be in the same areas.  That means that mixed use high density development in extremely limited locations around the bay will be all that will be approved by planning departments for the next 25-28 years.  Plan Bay Area has been approved by MTC/ABAG and IS NOW CURRENT POLICY--ONLY LEGAL ACTION CAN STOP IT.


The Post Sustainability Institute/Freedom Advocates lawsuit is the ONLY lawsuit against Plan Bay Area that addresses the unconstitutionality of the Plan, and of regionalization.  This lawsuit is the ONLY one that challenges the Plan itself. This is not going to go away if you ignore it.  Your participation is needed to keep this lawsuit active.  DONATE NOW AT 
STOP PLAN BAY AREA . COM  



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