Summary: Focus on rural San Mateo County and urban Smart Growth in Contra Costa County. Pellegrini, born in Cuba, compares the ransformation of American government to Castro's early days and demonstrates how the Mid Peninsula Open Space District is destroying people's lives. Paul Dickey explains how urban growth boundaries have driven home prices beyond the means of ordinary citizens, compounded the traffic problems and left the door open for sustainable land grabs that threaten the very existence of the Republic.