Santa Cruz County
The New World Order: Combining Transportation and Housing “Policy”
By Michael Shaw, 6/28/2005 –
Throughout America public/private partnership works to destroy neighborhoods at taxpayer expense.
Articles
Articles
Sketch of “Smart Growth” Aptos Village Plan
6/28/2005, Santa Cruz, CA — County Supervisor, Ellen Pirie released this sketch depicting the Aptos Village Plan. One can see very dense multi-story housing mixed with commercial development right at the edge of the railroad tracks. There is limited parking and residences don’t have garages.
Sustainable Development
A Tool Chest to Transform North Dakota
By Michael Shaw, 6/28/2005 – An axiom of political theory holds that the riches of all the people can be gathered up by simply blurring the boundaries of the people and by raiding the public treasury. Today, the public policy strategy designed to implement this goal is called Sustainable Development. Sustainable Development has become well established in communities from Santa Cruz to Bismarck and states including California and North Dakota.
Private Property
The Truth About Conservation Easements: How They Take Away Your Rights
By Dan Byflield, 6/27/2005 – Smooth salesmen and lawyers representing land trusts, environmental organizations and government agencies are swooping down upon America’s beleaguered and highly regulated rural landowners. With a smile, some cash and a contract, America’s landowners are rapidly losing private control of natural resources.
Climate Change
The Green Matrix, Weird Science – Think Global
By Diane Alden, 6/27/2005 – The green matrix is the network of connections in a worldwide political and economic agenda involving science in service to that agenda. It includes dabs of Eastern mysticism, Hegel and Marx and venture capitalism, as well as various world elite playing masters of the universe.
Sustainable Development
Vision 2025: Sustainable Development Comes to Greenville
"Vision" programs are everywhere. What are they and where did they come from? In short, a "vision plan" is a Sustainable Development program designed to transform a system of private property into collective land management and centralized government. Don’t be fooled by the smiles and cookies at your communities visioning sessions! Dr. Steven Yates reports from South Carolina.
Liberty - Legitimate Government
The Necessity of Government
By David Kelley, 4/12/2005 – Political-economic theory in America is increasingly losing its compass. Sustainable Development activists promote policies of unlimited government intervention and many intellectuals promote the opposite side of the political spectrum – anarcho capitalism. This essay written in 1974 charts the course for a political-economic theory predicated on reason and logic – the necessity of limited government.
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Smart Growth - Planning
Communitarian Communities – Our New Government Housing
By Nancy Levant, 4/12/2005 – America’s new political system, Communitarianism, is up and operating in all 50 states, one new community at a time. These communities comprise of brand new housing, interconnected or very closely clustered single dwellings, nice walkways, not much grass, commons areas, security details…but there is much more to these communities than meets the eye much more.
Wildlands Network
State Dictates CDF Support for Federal HCP
3/24/2005 – In a stunning reversal California Department of Fire and Forestry (CDF)
Santa Cruz mountain Chief, Steve Wert announced that the department
would support the federal imposition of a Habitat Conservation Plan for
Santa Cruz county despite uncontroverted citizen input that such action
takes private property and will lead to worsening fire risks and
potential losses of human life.
Wildlands Network
Habitat Conservation Plan Adoption Slowed
3/24/2005 – California Department of Forestry Fire Chief Steve Wert called for a
citizen to replace Aptos-La Selva Fire Chief Gary Smith as chairman of
the County Fire Safe Council at the council’s recent meeting.