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That's a total misrepresentation. It's people proposing things like Measure S in LA, which would have put every single construction project, including schools r

That's a total misrepresentation. It's people proposing things like Measure S in LA, which would have put every single construction project, including schools roads and parks, all of them, on ice for two years. It's people like the residents of Beverly Hills who held up the construction of a Subway for 15 damn years. They are anti-mass transit and pro-traffic. Literally, yes. It's people like the one lone nut that fought in the courts to make the LA expo train slow down to 10 miles per hour passing through his neighborhood. Oh joy! It's people like the group fighting Against putting new green parkspace over the 101 freeway and reconnecting the neighborhoods. It's people like the damn group in the sunset hills who got a Frank Gehry affordable housing project With park space cancelled in favor of keeping a strip mall from the 50s. Anti-park, anti-housing... So no, this is the actual reality. They are anti-everything. Anti infrastructure, anti parks, anti schools, anti housing, anti everything. They're not leftists or activists, they're just greedy stubborn dick waving assholes with lawyers. They've got zero interest in building a community, they just want to control everything. One of the most important things we can do for more livable cities is organize against these foot dragging campaigns.

rayiner 9y ago
And they're everywhere! Our daughter's school bought an old golf course to create some athletic facilities and a nature preserve for the kids. (We're not talking a football stadium, but a few fields surrounded by parkland for a non-sports-oriented K-12 school with less than 800 students). They were tied up in litigation for years. http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/schools/ph-ac-cn-key-school-appeal-1106-20161104-story.html http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/schools/ph-ac-cn-key-scho.... After losing at trial, the resident group appealed it all the way to the state supreme court! Residents gave the stupidest reasons for it too: > But that doesn't go far enough for Geri Nicholson, who lives on Carrollton Road and across the street from the park. > "The roads aren't safe, and the project as planned is not going to make them any safer," Nicholson said. > Association President Tom Bodor said a price can't be placed on safety. > "How much is safety worth? It is priceless," Bodor said. This is the "unsafe road" we're talking about: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9497613,-76.4821034,3a,75y,54.23h,81.96t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1svG3siWZqHDC4YzjIaBgMww!2e0!7i3328!8i1664 https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9497613,-76.4821034,3a,75y,5.... It's idle suburbia.

rayiner 9y ago

And they're everywhere! Our daughter's school bought an old golf course to create some athletic facilities and a nature preserve for the kids. (We're not talking a football stadium, but a few fields surrounded by parkland for a non-sports-oriented K-12 school with less than 800 students). They were tied up in litigation for years. http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/schools/ph-ac-cn-key-school-appeal-1106-20161104-story.html http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/schools/ph-ac-cn-key-scho.... After losing at trial, the resident group appealed it all the way to the state supreme court! Residents gave the stupidest reasons for it too: > But that doesn't go far enough for Geri Nicholson, who lives on Carrollton Road and across the street from the park. > "The roads aren't safe, and the project as planned is not going to make them any safer," Nicholson said. > Association President Tom Bodor said a price can't be placed on safety. > "How much is safety worth? It is priceless," Bodor said. This is the "unsafe road" we're talking about: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9497613,-76.4821034,3a,75y,54.23h,81.96t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1svG3siWZqHDC4YzjIaBgMww!2e0!7i3328!8i1664 https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9497613,-76.4821034,3a,75y,5.... It's idle suburbia.