While Plan Bay Area is terrorizing the San Francisco area, Plan Lafayette is doing the same to the much smaller community of Lafayette, Louisiana (city population 125,000; parish population 225,000). Lafayette has a consolidated city-parish government, so the whims of one council can control what happens in the entire parish.
Plan Lafayette has four alternatives, and like Plan Bay Area all but one are various forms of growth-management planning, while the remaining one is “do nothing.” Not surprisingly, planners snidely imply that doing nothing will lead to more congestion and higher taxes, when in fact, the reverse is probably true. “Minimal provisions are made to reduce traffic congestion or to provide community services, because of the high costs of servicing a very large area,” say the planners. “Without a plan, government can only address issues in a reactionary versus a proactive manner.”
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Local tea party activists asked the Antiplanner to present a different view in a ten-minute slide show. The result actually is less than nine minutes, and they found someone else to narrate it, so you don’t have to listen to my droning, nasal voice.
Everything sounds better when narrated by Morgan Freeman.
I have been involved in Lafayette’s Planning process from the beginning. I assure you it is corrupt and manipulated to produce a predetermined conclusion. It is the closest thing I have experienced to human “sheep herding”. The concept of a free market plan, which some believe is the best plan, was not even allowed to be discussed. We were warned by Randal O’Toole of the Cato Institute that this would happen, and it did.
Regardless of Whether an idea is right or wrong or good or bad, if one has to use deception and propaganda and omission of material information to sell an idea, it may not be the right thing to do.
Jeremiah Supple
I guess when you don’t like something, you call it terrism. Plannin’ is terra!
DS
And I guess if you like your old talking points – even though they don’t reflect reality – just repeat them so you can gin up fake outrage.
I’m sure if Koch explains to these folks the Nirvana of no zoning, they’ll vote for that instead of the Tranny of Planning. Why don’t the Kochs try that? It has worked so well before!
DS
San Jose, in the Bay Area, is the Second Smart Growth city after the first Portland.
With our urban Growth Boundary we have sky high housing prices and we spend most of our transportation funds on light-rail and very little on highways. Naturally light rail ridership is not increasing percentage wise with growth but highway congestion is a real problem.
Attended conferences in the last few years at Portland and Houston which is a real education.
Planners do not have all the answers.
Best,
Lowell Grattan
lgrattan, I ask you for the 45th time. What would the housing prices be in the Bay Area if the “growth boundary” were loosened and the ‘available’ land were built upon?
I await – yet again – your improved housing price figure.
DS
Planner boi, I ask you for the 45th time. What benefit do planners see in timing traffic lights so that the public drives from red light, to red light, in a constant state of stop & go?
Perhaps there is some health benefit, that I am yet unaware of, to the increased vehicle emissions this pattern creates. Perhaps there is some abstract social benefit to it. I don’t know, which is why I request an answer from the almightly planner.
I await – yet again – your answer.
MS