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Citizens are doin' it for themselves

2/10/2011

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Since we launched this website in August 2010 we've gone from about 50 hits a day to over 300, with occasional views of over 500.  Our totals are over 50,000. Who's looking?  Although most are here in the San Francisco Bay Area, people from all over the US and across the world have been checking this site and emailing us to say that they are excited to see activists courageous enough to take on the local government and local NGO's that dominate the landscape---and talk about it!

We are contacted by many who feel that their communities have been taken over by advocates of high density development (sprawl painted green and built vertically to tower over rural and small towns).  Anyone who objects to heavy handed siphoning off of property tax dollars to the hands of big corporate interests and labor bosses through redevelopment is labeled 'tea partier' or 'hater.'  It would be amusing if it weren't so prevalent, and such an effective way of closing the ears of liberals to the message of their neighbors, who may also be liberal, but not spouting the party line.  Anyone who questions the connections between special interests and the legislators/council people they pay to elect is attacked.  

Fear of attack keeps some quiet.  But not all.  

The corruption is endemic to our government---here in Santa Rosa the Redevelopment Agency, a slush fund for developers, bought the old ATT building and then sold it to developer Hugh Futrell for over a million less than the city paid for it.  Millions were just handed to the Simon Group, the world's largest shopping center owner, half owner of Coddingtown Mall, for 'renovations' as a 'loan' with over a million as a gift.  Part of their idea of 'renovation' is to remove local business owners from the Mall---they're considered blight.

Ending redevelopment will drive a stake through the heart of Agenda 21 at this time.  Redevelopment is a major funding source for this community-destroying plan masquerading as 'green.'   Redesigning community through force and manipulation, through corruption and fraud, is a watchword here in Sonoma County.  

You don't have to support New Urbanism to preserve your liberal credentials.  At best you come off as a hypocrite if you're advocating tirelessly for high density development while sitting in your single family home.  Riding a bike is a pleasant exercise not an excuse to tear up streets, oust longtime businesses, reroute traffic through residential neighborhoods, and send existing buildings to the landfill.  The operative word in Smart Growth is GROWTH---it's development backed by big business bent on demolishing and homogenizing our towns.

That's not green.  And it's NOT smart.

Take a look at what some citizens in El Dorado County are saying about Smart Growth and the transformation of their rural towns.


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A West County Observer
2/16/2011 02:02:38 pm

What is most interesting is how you are the living example how screwed up things are. A Democrat female lesbian who is outcast by most in that group being embraced by conservative patriot Republicans who were outcast by the mainstream Republicans who have more in common with communists than Republicans they now call TeaBaggers. And Democrats have more in common with Republican crooks than you.

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Lori Hanson
3/13/2011 06:40:22 am

Your site puts it all together for us and we have been paying attention. We moved up here from Larkspur (Marin) and this stuff is everywhere. The so-called community involvement wears you out, and it's only the one's who are pals-y with the city agencies that get listened to. I can't believe that they think they're business friendly. As i said before, we are liberals, but I can't talk to anyone, it's like a town of fanatics.

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