2nd District Wants Details
Letter to the Santa Barbara News-Press, 1/24/2005, by Charles Kent of Noleta:
... The 2nd District debate in Noleta by aspiring supervisors on Wednesday was a great event for voters -- except the following critical details weren't addressed:
• How to actually push through a bona fide updated 2nd District community plan that's required by law. Supervisor Susan Rose and county administrators have been stalling this for three years while considering zoning changes to help development corporations build dense new housing in Noleta.
• How to effectively challenge state-mandated housing rules that pro-development corporations, pro-subsidy forces and our county administrators use as a weapon against established neighborhoods to justify forcing dense new housing into our narrow and unique South Coast corridor.
All candidates claimed to support a community plan preserving agricultural land, avoiding traffic gridlock and other negative impacts. We've heard such claims from previous politicians. Yet the march toward rezoning and overbuilding continues. The only forces slowing this march have been private citizens banding together to protect our neighborhoods.
We hope all candidates will provide specifics on these issues in the near future.
... The 2nd District debate in Noleta by aspiring supervisors on Wednesday was a great event for voters -- except the following critical details weren't addressed:
• How to actually push through a bona fide updated 2nd District community plan that's required by law. Supervisor Susan Rose and county administrators have been stalling this for three years while considering zoning changes to help development corporations build dense new housing in Noleta.
• How to effectively challenge state-mandated housing rules that pro-development corporations, pro-subsidy forces and our county administrators use as a weapon against established neighborhoods to justify forcing dense new housing into our narrow and unique South Coast corridor.
All candidates claimed to support a community plan preserving agricultural land, avoiding traffic gridlock and other negative impacts. We've heard such claims from previous politicians. Yet the march toward rezoning and overbuilding continues. The only forces slowing this march have been private citizens banding together to protect our neighborhoods.
We hope all candidates will provide specifics on these issues in the near future.
Posted by Malcolm on
1/25/2006
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