The accompanying hosts
looked at each other embarrassed and nobody answered the question. It was too undiplomatic
and dangerous to explain to this westerner coming from the land of freedom and
private property that the farmers’ land had been confiscated, collectivized,
and the former owners moved by force to government assigned concrete block
apartments ranging in size from 200-400 square feet.
These apartments were
located in blocks with 2-4 entrances depending on whether they were five or
nine stories high. The five-story buildings did not have elevators; the nine-story
buildings had lifts that could safely carry two individuals at a time and were
seldom operational. Renters of various ages and physical abilities had the joy
of climbing stairs every day.
Social engineers had decided
that land was better used in co-operative farms owned by the communist government.
Private homes located on farm land were bulldozed and people were moved either
in a compact village attached to the collective farm, with little room between
single homes, or in the densely populated cities with grey concrete apartments
mushrooming overnight.
The communist party elites
had decided that having too much private space was bourgeois, the socialist men
needed just enough space to eat and sleep, the rest of the time had to be spent
at work.
This brings me to the
current trend in the U.S. to reduce Americans’ living space to as little as possible
by changing zoning laws without their consent, using visioning committees
composed of local agreeable supervisors and outside non-governmental organizations
(NGOs) with lots of available grant money from HUD and other government
agencies.
U.N. Agenda 21 is behind
zoning, regionalism, land and water use, Sustainable Development, global
warming, wealth redistribution, social engineering, Smart Growth, Green Growth,
cap and trade, Smart Grid, Smart Meters, global citizens, IB World schools,
Common Core standards, biofuels, the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST), gun control,
just to name a few. http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/Agenda21.pdf
Nationally syndicated talk
show hosts have finally started speaking against U.N. Agenda 21 elements. I
have connected all the parts in my best-selling book, “U.N. Agenda 21:
Environmental Piracy.” http://www.amazon.com/U-N-Agenda-21-Environmental-Piracy-ebook/dp/B009WC6JXO/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=
A political refuge appealed
to the St. Lucie County Commissioners in Florida at a meeting about the U.N.
environmental regionalist Seven50 plans for Florida. “I do not come here to
lose my freedom; I beg you – get out of Seven50. Do not destroy our Freedom.” www.westernjournalism.com/author/suzanne-eovaldi/
A long line of citizens
vociferously opposed such regionalism and pleaded with “local elected officials
to reject the takeover of Florida’s private property.” “
“I am opposed to Seven50…
to the loss of our property rights by U.N. Agenda 21, the new world order
communist Marxist project.”
Large grants from HUD and
this administration have divided our country into 11 nationwide regions,
including the east coast of Florida. The Seven50 Regionalism Plan has already
been adopted in the Gore triangle counties south of St. Lucie and Indian River
counties. Vero Beach, IRC rejected the plan based on a “vertical authority flow
chart” controlled by unelected federal bureaucrats influenced by globalist
non-governmental organizations (NGOs) who plan to “stack-and-pack 200-foot
dwelling spaces” and move citizens off their private property.
Suzanne Eovaldi describes
the typical stack-and-pack living quarters in the 200 square foot aPodments
building in Sammamish, Washington. Resident Judy Green “shares the kitchen with
seven other tenants on the second floor.” To get to her loft cubicle, she must
climb six flights of stairs in the absence of elevators. Cars are not allowed
on account of global warming. The micro-units are the size of a hotel room and
rent for $600-900 per month. The micro-housing units increase the population
density of the area tremendously. http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020845443
apodmentscitycouncilxml.html
The government will impose
its best practices of “Sustainable Urbanism” which will force areas to adopt “sustainable
development” and “equitable communities,” changing the counties’ desired low
density character and scale to high-density crime-ridden slums.
The American Coalition 4
Property Rights explains on its website why the Seven50 Regional Plan must be
stopped with its Sustainable Urbanism and the Smart Code solution to urban
sprawl. Regionalism will fundamentally alter the make-up of our society and of
our property rights or lack thereof. http://nomoreunelectedbureaucrats.com/
“Social engineering is on
the verge of being imposed on entire neighborhoods, adults, and children alike.”
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will dismantle local
zoning and force people to move into certain areas in order to achieve what
they consider “racial, economic, and ethnic diversity.” This is “nationalizing
neighborhoods” on a grand scale. This is done for our “own good and to achieve
utopia.” By obliterating zoning regulations, we will have neighborhoods by
government quota. (Rush Limbaugh monologue, September 12, 2013)
Rush Limbaugh pointed out
that “HUD’s power grab is based on the mistaken belief that zoning and
discrimination are the same, zoning is disguised discrimination.” Introducing
200 square feet pods between single family homes is “social justice.”
The American Planning
Association issued a HUD Smart Growth document, a blueprint of goals to replace
single family housing. The 76-page study by APA’s Planning Advisory Service, report
number 548, published on July 2007, had the “objective to examine, on a pilot
basis, whether zoning impedes the development of higher-density, multifamily
housing in growing metropolitan areas.”
The study presumed
multifamily housing to be the most affordable type of housing yet it did not
evaluate this presumption in the study. “High-density residential development
is not always affordable, and low density development is not always costly.
Ample high-density and multi-family zoning is neither necessary nor sufficient
to produce affordable housing.”(p. iv) Why then destroy suburbia and why
dictate to other people how they should live?
The authors identified
other factors besides zoning that can limit multifamily housing stock such as
market conditions, land availability, parcelization, provision of public
services, planning goals such as protecting open spaces or rural areas, and
existing land-use patterns.
The APA study recommends:
1.
Support the
Regional collection and integration of land use regulatory data (maintain
comprehensive data on zoning and other regulatory restraints)
2.
Encourage state
and Regional governments to provide oversight of local land-use policies.
3.
Focus state and Regional
oversight policies on quantitative performance measures.
4.
Continue to develop
better measures of zoning barriers and support additional research on the
effects of barriers on housing markets.
For these authors, “the
critical question now is not whether
regulatory barriers to affordable housing exist in some communities, but
whether it is possible to identify
such communities and craft an appropriate policy response.”
In my December 23, 2013 interview
with Brian Lilley of Sun News Network in Canada, I explained the “affordable
housing” fight in Fairfax County, Virginia, where almost all members of the
Board of Supervisors and the Planning Commission are crafting a plan to place Lilliputian slum dwellings in every area
of the county. They are the size of shipping containers or jail cells. These are called Residential Studio Units (RSUs) with a total
surface of 220-320 square feet. Each high-rise would contain 75 such units and
one parking space per unit. Such units would reduce property values, change
neighborhoods, increase population density, cause more traffic congestion, and
increase crime in the name of “affordable housing” for the poor, low wage workers,
and “diversity.” http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/2966593149001#.Ur0anuoYeJA.facebook
Further reading:
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/58022
(Are We Too Late to Stop UN Agenda 21?)
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/59206
(Environmental Conservation Easements Trump-ing Property Rights)
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/56894
(Harriet’s Fictional America Post Agenda 21)
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/56246
(Virginia is for Food and Farm Freedom Lovers)
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/54356
(What is Sustainability?)
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