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From: **stars2man2 ** Date: **Sat, 06 Oct 2007 14:15:29 -0000** Subject: **Re: $40M Sprawl**
 * stars2man2 ||   || [|View profile] ||   ||   More options  Oct 6 2007, 10:15 am  ||

Typical. Like all the new Bucs Stadium deals signed in the Mons Venus. The public is routinely left out of these entirely. In fact if you follow a critical issue you will notice that the county committee meetings are randomly canceled and rescheduled at the last possible minute precisely to avoid public input entirely. With most landuse rezoning the "Barbie Doll" permitting staff of the developers know more about side stepping the regulations and getting things rezoned and changed than any public citizen could ever figure out. Remember this is capitalism, the money is what makes the system work - - the squeaky wheel gets the grease - - which mean the developers and businesses who profit the most pay an army of staff to guarantee their subsidies and community support for any new scam they create. lol... oh another one I remember seeing was the Mass Transit initiatives that got too expensive because they could only be built through private lands. Of course all the private lands to be "acquired" were the same land owners. Oh I'm sorry to be such a critic, but have you ever taken your Kayak through the newly purchased ELAPP properties. Yes the state funded environmental lands acquisition program is great. . . but typically after they agree to purchase miles of sensitive mash lands from the farmer, the farmer will "harvest" all the cypress trees. Typical! They are doing the same thing with the old growth forests in the NW, which I explored in another class study. It's all about greed!