Comment on: Can Smart growth and better planning provide for self sufficiency?

Bigthink — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:53:27 +0100

Since PG&E will not pay people for an overflow of their solar energy, I encourage ALL to hook your neighbors up to your system because they can use it and not profit on it like PG&E will. Stomp out this corporate greed and love thy neighbor and be self sufficient.

Comment on: Can Smart growth and better planning provide for self sufficiency?

Bigthink — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:43:29 +0100

I think wind, solar and hydroelectric power is the wave of the future, but we need rural areas open to do so. Not fill them with junky, poorly designed track houses and tacky malls.
I hang my sheets which I rinse in lavender oil to dry on the clothes line regardless of any ordinance created by a city slicker to turn me into a consumer dweeb like him/her. They have suddenly made it illegal for people to post for sale signs to sell their homes in my neighborhood.
I feel passionate about this subject as I see my rural area rezoned with FAKE enviornmental stuff to devalue properties, then they commit eminent domain, and pay less than 10% of it's real "fair market value" and then turn around and sell it to developers rezoned for redevelopment minus the environmental issues for millions. I see farms, dairies, cattle ranches gobbled up this way for $6,500 an acre. Yes I know, that is highway robbery in California but it is being done. Those people fed us too and nobody protects them when a planning commissioner who has one foot in bed with his/her building related company and the other with the government wants to steal from them. I think some good old fashioned whoop @$$ anarchy is in order! Especially when people are left with the balances of their mortgages when the 10% does not pay it off and they are forced to rent somewhere. Especially when poeple with home businesses/livelihoods are stolen from. Especially when families with children are forced to live in their cars, in hotels and on the floors of the houses of their friends and families because the check from the government takes YEARS to come their way. NOBODY in this "planning" process think of the RURAL PROPERTY OWNERS they are plotting to steal from which will financially devastate them and put their children in harm's way. This is government racketeering and grand theft and financial abuse and child abuse, yet nobody is charged with these offenses. Just the families when they are forced to live on the streets are charged with "child endangerment." I am certain no planners or architects even think twice about that. Not when there are millions to be made for them since the government made stealing land legal.
California is a really crooked state. Ask the United Nations how many people get their homes stolen here. I did and was told "it is number one in the nation of eminent domain abuses." Not a safe place for an realestate investment!

Comment on: Can Smart growth and better planning provide for self sufficiency?

Bigthink — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:47:45 +0100

Sounds Great !

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