As goes California, so goes the nation
Kelo? Schmelo. What’s an eminent domain threat, beaten back in some states, when all land usage can be usurped using the great cudgel of Global Warmingâ„¢?
Back in the 1970’s, then Governor Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown’s vision for California, especially for the riff-raff below the Grapevine, was Don’t build it and they won’t come. State tax revenues for highway construction and maintenance dried up like the Santa Ana River during a five-year drought. The major testament to Moonbeam’s legacy for me was traveling through Orange County down the 55 freeway to Newport, then diverting onto surface streets that ran alongside a fenced, weedy pit in the ground where the freeway was supposed to be. It wouldn’t be until the 1990’s that the last bit of the 55 was completed.
Moonbeam has never given up on getting people to get rid of their cars.
Indeed, Moonbeam has never given up on getting rid of people.
And his weapon of choice is AB 32, California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, which mandates state entities to reduce their greenhouse gases (GHGs) to 1990 levels. AB 32 also declares carbon dioxide as a “greenhouse gas” that must be monitored and regulated. As CA’s Attorney General, Moonbeam has leveled this shotgun straight at the gut of fast growth counties, most recently taking the unprecedented step of suing the county of San Bernardino.
San Bernardino, California – This vast county east of Los Angeles, the biggest in the continental USA, could hold the states of Connecticut, Delaware, Vermont and Rhode Island and still have room left over. Most of San Bernardino County remains mountains and empty desert.But an ever-larger piece, the part known as the “Inland Empire,” is freeways, fast-growing cities, traffic congestion and seemingly endless sprawl. For years, this has been the refuge, with Riverside County to the south, for hundreds of thousands of home buyers fleeing soaring Los Angeles prices.
STATES TAKE NOTE: California blames sprawl for global warming.
The county’s 2 million population will grow by at least 500,000 by 2030, according to state estimates. The conventional way growth has always been handled here is to build more single-family subdivisions  the suburban dream, for sale on a third of an acre.[my note - I don't know where he got this info...the majority of subdivisions for ostensible middleclass homes is 1/6 acre]
“San Bernardino has never seen a project it didn’t like,” says Brendan Cummings, a senior attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group that has brought several lawsuits in the Inland Empire over global warming. “They rubber-stamp development. It’s very much of a frontier mentality.“
Even Dan Waters of the SacBee, sounds some warning notes:
When Attorney General Jerry Brown sued San Bernardino County over alleged inadequacies in its plan governing growth, he accelerated an incremental and potentially historic — albeit little-noticed — state takeover of local governments’ jealously guarded power over land use.
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Land use has, as a topic for debate and sometimes action, been kicked around political and academic circles for decades. A landmark shift of policy occurred in the mid-1970s when voters and the Legislature, plus then-Gov. Brown, created a Coastal Commission with land use power — sometimes applied very narrowly with tinges of corruption — over a “coastal zone.”
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The multifront conflict over land use authority is … an ideological one, and that means it’s also an interregional conflict in which coastal and urban liberals are attempting to impose their philosophy of development on the faster-growing, conservative suburban and rural counties of inland California — San Bernardino, for instance.
Waters softpeddles the Coastal Commission’s “tinges of corruption”. The Commission’s historic operation can be found as an example in Bartlet’s Familiar Quotations next to Lord Acton’s Absolute power corrupts absolutely. The idea of a statewide “Coastal Commission”, fully subservient to the socialist CA State Legislature is an alarming prospect. Not the least of which when viewed in the context of Moonbeam’s authoritarian sneers directed at San Diego
First it was the booming counties of California’s Inland Empire. Now Attorney General Jerry Brown is eyeing stagnant San Diego’s recent growth plan as part of his home-state mission on greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. …Brown’s office fired San Diego a GHG warning shot last month with a June 11 letter from Deputy Attorney General Sandra Goldberg urging the city to adopt a broader range of GHG mitigation strategies. But some locals say such excessive regulation could force businesses out, reports Voice of San Diego’s Rob Davis. …
Earlier this year Brown signaled his intent to use the Act as a lever to force changes in local development blueprints. …
Brown had previously smacked the Inland Empire’s other big growth county, Riverside, with similar suits against the plans of municipalities Banning and Desert Hot Springs.
From Mike Lee
After a sharp reprimand from the State Attorney General’s Office, San Diego city officials are crafting policies to deal with global warming more decisively.Their proposed regulations mainly deal with new developments and major remodeling projects. They address everything from the types of paints and roofing materials that can be used to the varieties of landscape plants and the amount of parking spots allowed. The rules also are aimed at reducing traffic.
At first, the city wanted merely to encourage such measures in its long-term growth strategy. But in a recent letter, Attorney General Jerry Brown’s staff made it clear that voluntary guidelines aren’t good enough.
And if Moonbeam’s demands are not met, he has backup from the CA Senate in the form of yet another bit of legislation, SB 375, that is naked in it’s power play
This measure says that all transportation plans and transportation funding decisions must be made with the object of concentrating people in dense urban cores. In this bill, it is called a “Preferred Growth Scenario.†It says all transportation plans and funds must serve this “Preferred Growth Scenario,†and that, in turn, means at an absolute minimum packing in ten families per acre. Ten Families.Welcome to the brave new world of central planning. This is a continuation of the policy that Gov. Schwarzenegger institutionalized with AB 32 and that Attorney General Brown operationalized by suing San Bernardino County.
They’re basically saying, “You cannot build new highways until you can show how you’re going to build them without using earth-moving equipment or concrete and that, once they’re built, nobody is going to use them.â€Â
But the Left has an alternative – that’s what this bill is all about. They want everyone to move into dense urban cores – the denser the better. That’s what this bill means when it uses the term, “Preferred Growth Scenario.â€Â
Crumbling roads? Unsafe bridges? State to city, tough sh*t, you play by our rules and you’ll get some of your taxes back, or you can just crumble into the dust and good riddance.
Global Warmingâ„¢ has provided the perfect cover for the Radical Environmental movement. It is a fundamentalist religion that is bent on imposing its own Environmental Sharia, where even a small town 85 miles east of Los Angeles is being sued by the Moonbeam’s office and it’s fundie co-religionists in the Radical Eco movement for the unforgivable sin of allowing people to live one family per acre.
Think of your state as a Super HOA, telling you not only how to paint your home or what plants you can have in your yard, but even telling you whether or not you’re are even allowed a yard or a fireplace.
As goes California …
Comment by Jeremy on 7/9 @ 4:14 am #
Darleen, I soooo want to care but you’re talking about California. That state has made its bed and now it has to hit the hay.
/I know your point is that if it happens in CA it could happen anywhere. But for the life of me I can’t care. “They came for CA and I didn’t give a shit because CA was full of the most annoying people I’ve ever come across.” etc….
Comment by Pablo on 7/9 @ 4:43 am #
I though Jerry was still mayor of Oakland.
Comment by McGehee on 7/9 @ 6:35 am #
I thought the last time that happened was Prop. 13.
And no, Pablo — Jerry ran for AG last year and won. And the courts dismissed a challenge to his election (you’ll like this) on the grounds that, although state law defines the qualifications for AG as including being an “active” member of the bar during each of the previous five years, which Brown wasn’t, apparently the law doesn’t require that an AG be “qualified” to be elected and hold office.
Or something like that.
Comment by BJTexs on 7/9 @ 6:57 am #
“I’m being followed by at pot smoking rock and roll dating radical hippie global warming pimping AG moonbeam…”
Johnny Carson had the best line about Mr. Moonbeam. After a discussion with Robin Williams about the absurdity of Clinton’s “I didn’t inhale” pot rap, Williams changed the subject to Jerry Brown. Carson, ever quick, instantly interrupted, “Yea, his problem is that he never exhaled!”
Indeed!
Comment by Darleen on 7/9 @ 7:09 am #
McGehee
I love what the CA judge who ruled in Moonbeams favor said
captcha: howling cur …. well now
Comment by Darleen on 7/9 @ 7:17 am #
Jeremy
I understand to a degree your schadenfreude for California, especially since the hapless CA Republican party historically gathers in a circle and starts shooting.
We do occassionally get it right (Reagan).
Pull up that red/blue election map by county sometime and you’ll see the ONLY blue parts of CA are the bay area and El Lay proper. Most of the state is rural/suburban and that’s the part that grates on the left/lib urbanites. We must be brought to heel.
Comment by warlocke on 7/9 @ 7:30 am #
During the Dust Bowl, when people from all over the Midwest were moving to California, the state enacted “Okie laws” to try to keep them out. They would have had the effect of setting up passports and an immigration procedure in order to cross the border. The laws were struck down on Commerce Clause grounds, incidentally providing precedents that are still biting us in the butts, but the idea simply won’t die. They tried it again with residency requirements for welfare, and the backlash from that is a good part of what’s giving us fits over benefits for illegal aliens.
I lived in California for a while. Since I left, I’ve said repeatedly that it would be a wonderful place to live if so many other people didn’t think so. That appears to be the majority sentiment among people who do live there and hold political office, and now that they’ve got their comfortable lifestyle they will do literally anything to keep somebody else from disturbing it. Environmentalism is their current weapon, and a fearsome one it is. Their ideal is the conditions at the time of Spanish/Mexican rule, with a few “Californios” (themselves) living in comfortable spread-out villas and everybody else crammed into rustic villages, from which they emerge to provide services to the elect.
This won’t stand in its present form, but the side effects will be horrific, as usual.
Regards,
Ric
Comment by Sticky B on 7/9 @ 7:53 am #
I took my first ever trip out to SoCal this past spring. It has the same feel as the border towns in the Texas Rio Grande valley but of course on a much larger scale. That is to say, you almost feel like you’re in the third world. The filth that’s not cleaned up, the grafitti that’s allowed to stick and the general run down condition of the transportation infratstructure just don’t feel like America. Then my wife watches these home makeover shows on TV and starts screaming bloody murder at the damned thing, and when I go into the den to find out what her problem is, somebody has just bought a 1000 square foot wreck of a house for $350,000 and plans to fix it up a little and sell it for north of half a mil. These are houses that wouldn’t bring $80,000 anywhere in TX under any circumstances. My trip to SoCal combined with what I learn from my wife’s TV addiction cause me to ask myself a question that I still have no answer for: Why the fuck would anyone want to live out there?
Comment by Holly on 7/9 @ 8:56 am #
If it could happen in CA it could happen anywhere….
Yep, and typically if it is ridiculous it will happen in MN next.
Comment by Beth on 7/9 @ 10:11 am #
Damn right it’ll happen elsewhere, if he gets his way in San Bernardino. The Great Global Warming Swindle isn’t just in California, it’s a worldwide evangelical movement.
California–
Turing sez they “have speaker.” ‘Nuff said.
Comment by mojo on 7/9 @ 10:16 am #
What’s that? You thought an Attorney General, as the State’s chief law enforcement officer, might have a little more interest in murders, rapes and arsons than in suing people for non-conformity to the State’s wisdom?
Silly girl.
Comment by happyfeet on 7/9 @ 11:15 am #
Los Angeles is the city that spent billions on a subway but wouldn’t let it go to the airport because of the taxi union. Ask not what you can do for global warming, ask what global warming can do for you.
Comment by bob on 7/9 @ 11:30 am #
Car ownership is for suckers.
http://carfreeusa.blogspot.com
Comment by JD on 7/9 @ 11:36 am #
Bob – My Saab does not really suck, but I can assure you that I am doing my part to induce anthropogenic global warming driving around in my Expedition all by myself with the air conditioner cranked to max. I can literally feel the CFC, CO2, etc … spewing out behind me. WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE !!!
Comment by Harry Bergeron on 7/9 @ 11:38 am #
What’s unspoken is that development pressure is entirely from immigration and the profligate breeding habits of previous immigrants. The pressure on housing and other infrastructure is obvious, but unaddressed.
I’m leaving the State and laughing out loud at those left behind who haven’t caught on. They brought it on themselves.
Comment by bob on 7/9 @ 12:34 pm #
JD,
Enjoy your joy ride. But know your grandkids will spit on your grave for what you personally and gleefully did to fuck up the climate.
Selfish bastard. Hope you die of terminal hemmeroids from sitting on your ass so much.
P.S. Enjoy the traffic. Loser.
Comment by JD on 7/9 @ 12:50 pm #
Bob – I am quite sure that had the combustion engine not been invented, anthropogenic global warming could have been averted. Damn that American innovation! I think I am going to let my Expedition idle in my driveway overnight. If I do that for every night for the next 78 years, it might catch up to the carbon footprint of the Live Earth concerts, which did more to harm the environment, than to help it. I sit on my ass so much? Interesting observation from somebody I have never met.
I am still waiting to find out how the prior Ice Age’s receeded without those devious little humans to contribute to the global warming. We seem to have survived quite well.
In honor of you, I will only drive my Expedition with the air conditioning on medium.
Comment by BJTexs on 7/9 @ 1:00 pm #
bob, snappy new name for your wacky webpage;
Bobbing for Luddites!
JD: Don’t forget to smake a big, fat Cuban and eat lots of refried beans. I’m feeling a little chilly today…
Comment by JD on 7/9 @ 1:03 pm #
BJ – If I try really hard, I think I can make the temperature rise in my immediate surrounding area by at least o.oooooooooooooooooooooo13 degrees, over the next decade.
Comment by BJTexs on 7/9 @ 1:08 pm #
JD: But if you hosted a Live Earth event AND invited hollywooders to come and speak, I’m thinking you could drastically improve on that tempurature rise.
At least until the solar radiation diminishes. In the meantime, I’m sending all my sewage to bob for composting.
BECAUSE OF THE CHILDREN!!!
Comment by Sigivald on 7/9 @ 2:21 pm #
Bob: Boo hoo, Scoldypants.
I know, it’s terrible that everyone doesn’t just agree with you that Cars Are Just Evil Because They Just Are Shut Up Stop Arguing!
But we don’t. And “Your grandkids will hate you for driving! They will! I say so!” ain’t convincing nobody of nothing, except that you’re a clueless scold.
“Cars are fucking up the climate” is simply insupportable with stupid little things like “evidence” or “solid science” (even if we accept the AGW hypothesis and that CO2 is the primer mover in warming, personal transport is nothing compared to coal-burning power plants – over a billion tons a year in the US alone!
China is, of course, worse on both counts, having almost no personal automobile use in comparison and much more reliance on coal – burning just more coal than the US now, with plans to build many more plants.).
Move on.
(Did you know that gasoline accounts for less than half of US petrochemical use, and that obviously includes non-personal-car use, like taxicabs and non-diesel commercial transport. And of course carpooling, business use of vehicles, and so on.)
Shouldn’t your grandkids hate you for not pushing nuclear power to stop US dependence on coal, by the way?
Personal ownership of cars is not a problem for “the climate”.
(It is a problem for socialists who hate individualism and plenty, and for luddites, and people who live in New York City and don’t realise that the whole world isn’t New York City and that “just take a cab or the subway” doesn’t work, well, anywhere else, so to speak.)
Comment by Rusty on 7/9 @ 3:11 pm #
Comment by bob on 7/9 @ 11:30 am #
Car ownership is for suckers.
Spoken by a pitiful poor slob who has never gone from 0 to 60 in six seconds, and smoked rubber in every gear.
Eat yer heart out.
Comment by Joseph on 7/9 @ 4:13 pm #
Honestly, we should do everything we can to help the earth. I personally converted my SUV to run on spotted owls and the tears of self-righteous environmentalists.
Comment by Teacher's Pet on 7/9 @ 5:39 pm #
EXCELLENT. My hat’s off to you for an outstanding analysis.
/can’t believe we elected that man to high office AGAIN.
Comment by maggie katzen on 7/9 @ 5:45 pm #
hmmmm, so I’m wondering… which is worse, having children or owning a car?
Comment by McGehee on 7/9 @ 7:13 pm #
Letting your car have children.
Remember, spay or neuter your ‘Vette!
Comment by Spiny Norman on 7/9 @ 11:44 pm #
#6 Darleen
Pull up that red/blue election map by county sometime and you’ll see the ONLY blue parts of CA are the bay area and El Lay proper. Most of the state is rural/suburban and that’s the part that grates on the left/lib urbanites. We must be brought to heel.
The worst aspect of that is that the voters in this state no longer have any say in the matter: our legislative districts have been so gerrymandered there is no possibility that any Democrat incumbent can ever lose another election… and the obsequious GOP delegation went along with it! The last time the state committee asked me for a donation, I told them to go fuck themselves.
Comment by Cybrludite on 7/10 @ 3:03 am #
Bob,
Try living in New Mexico without wheels. Or anywhere else in the desert southwest, for that matter. Hell, try using an electric car someplace where you can expect to hear, “Hey, the distance left to go is only in double digits! We’re almost there”, said without a hint of humor or irony. Solutions suitable for the east coast sprawl don’t work out so well once you get into the boonies.
Comment by bob on 7/10 @ 11:24 am #
“Spoken by a pitiful poor slob who has never gone from 0 to 60 in six seconds, and smoked rubber in every gear. Eat yer heart out.”
If you have a big cock, you don’t need a fast car.
You need a fast car.
And I save about $5,000 a year by not participating in the car culture.
But hey, keep sending your money down the toilet if it makes you fell like a big man.
; )
Comment by BJTexs on 7/10 @ 11:47 am #
bob of Bobbing for Luddites sez;
“If you have a big cock, you don’t need a fast car.”
“But hey, keep sending your money down the toilet if it makes you fell like a big man.”
BECAUSE OF THE PENIS ENVY! FOR THE CHILDREN!
Do Chia pets grow in your pubic hairs, bob?
Comment by Shawn on 7/10 @ 12:11 pm #
Thus they did behold the great Beast
Gleaming xenon eyes, 8 lungs of fire,
Its thirst unquenchable.
As the Beast lumbered forth on all wheels,
They cast stones and shouted over its roar
To drive the Beast from their sight
–The Book of Gore, Ch.8-1
Comment by B Moe on 7/10 @ 12:18 pm #
First thread topic in bob’s link:
Robert Kennedy Jr. tells the world what it will really take to stop Global Climate Chaos.
No cars, and no windmills off the Vineyard. Got it, bob.
Comment by BJTexs on 7/10 @ 12:27 pm #
BMoe:
bob’s just expressing his green endowment with some progressive manlove.
Plus, everybody knows The Kennedy’s throw the best parties.
Comment by B Moe on 7/10 @ 12:32 pm #
Somebody also needs to explain to Junior how a microphone works, he really don’t need to shout hisself all hoarse like that. That seems to be a problem with a lot of those progressive types, don’t it?
Comment by Jim in KC on 7/10 @ 1:29 pm #
Hoarse, B Moe? Or stupid? Or both?
Comment by ErikZ on 7/11 @ 2:36 pm #
Someone with a car can provide for his family. He can go to any place in an emergency, at any time.
Someone who depends on other people or organizations for transportation can only go where they want him to go, when they allow him to go.
If you live in New York city, fine, you don’t need a car. Anywhere else it brings in money, freedom, and responsibility.
“And I save about $5,000 a year by not participating in the car culture.”
How much money do you save a year by not participating in the baby culture? How about the preventive health culture? The Dating and getting married culture? The pet culture?
Did it ever occur to you that life isn’t about “Not Participating”?
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