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In the future we will be all living in mud huts? Cool!
This house was featured in ABAG's regional housing needs allocation report 2007-2014 published on this blog. I really think it is a great house. When I dreamed of moving to California in my younger days, I imagined I might live in a cool dwelling like this. I'd have a beautiful wife and children, make art, have an organic garden, live simply and cheaply. It would be my cabin at Walden Pond.
The profound irony is that this house is featured in a ABAG report. This house specifically may be prohibited under the SMART GROWTH objectives of compacting living zones along transportation corridors and building multifamily dwellings.
The goals of SMART GROWTH are completely opposite of idiosyncratic lifestyle as depicted here. It is about rigid conformity based on a central planning approach to organizing a region. Sure, the Transit Orient Developments will be pretty. They will be Disneyland cute. The core concept behind SMART GROWTH is to place controls on everything that makes us unique and free in order to serve the goals of the regional government. They will tell it is for the "greater good" i.e. as they alone define "greater good". It is a quiet tyranny like the Bay Area has never seen.
Let us remain free to decide our neighborhoods, choose our lifestyles, build our dreams. This is the America we inherited. This is what we must protect. This is what we must keep alive for our children.
Speak out! Talk with your neighbor. Call your Supervisor. Save your home. Save our community.
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