Comments on: Developer fees targeted by legislation as cities battle housing costs https://calwatchdog.com/2015/08/11/developer-fees-targeted-legislation-cities-battle-housing-costs/ Wed, 12 Aug 2015 06:20:48 +0000 hourly 1 By: Queeg https://calwatchdog.com/2015/08/11/developer-fees-targeted-legislation-cities-battle-housing-costs/#comment-117728 Wed, 12 Aug 2015 06:20:48 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=82439#comment-117728 In reply to lordonlow.

Just back from the third world airport in San Diego, ugly chain link fences, no decent landscaping, polution, gritty, a toilet , urban morass.

Calif started dying when aerospace industry left the state.

]]> By: lordonlow https://calwatchdog.com/2015/08/11/developer-fees-targeted-legislation-cities-battle-housing-costs/#comment-117723 Tue, 11 Aug 2015 23:30:02 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=82439#comment-117723 In reply to lordonlow.

http://watertreading.blogspot.com/p/follow-money.html?m=1

]]> By: lordonlow https://calwatchdog.com/2015/08/11/developer-fees-targeted-legislation-cities-battle-housing-costs/#comment-117722 Tue, 11 Aug 2015 23:28:53 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=82439#comment-117722 Take my city, LA, where I was born and raised. Here, without a dissertation, are some of the issues:

1. GOT STAKEHOLDERSHIP? In the coveted westside, NO ONE is even from LA. This pla e is *crawling* like maggots with new yorkers and bostonians and clevelanders… what do they care if LA’s over-hyperdeveloped?

2. The city council and mayor care nothng about hyperdevelopment. Why? FOLLOW THE MONEY: More people, bigger tax base and revenue streams, ie: parking fees, tickets, court fees….

3. The city’s BROKE so, the economic imperative is, MORE PEOPLE.

4. More people stresses EVERYTHING: The environment (hundreds of thousands more cars polluting), TRAFFIC (do I really need to…?), health (stress from traffic, more pollution, people EVERYWHERE…), RESOURCES (got water?)….

5. EH, SO WHAT – We’re in a grave drought, no thanks to agri and all of the outsiders coming here and sucking up all the water. But what happens when, for instance, water rationing is instigated. The new yorkers will just say, “Eh, I’ll just go home,” because LA’s NOT THEIR HOME and NEVER WAS.

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