Tony, Funny but scary post: "The first one came a few months back when Gavin Newsom announced that he would propose mandatory recycling and composting for all citizens: it would be enforced by your trash collectors, who would root through your garbage to make sure that you'd deposited the right trash in the right bins, and fine you if you didn't." We've had "garbage police" here in Ithaca and Tompkins County for years now, and has anybody really noticed? The answer is "no" because the average citizen has come to recognize the benefits of recycling and the high compliance rate we have has made "garbage police" unecessary. "Next came a truly terrifying line in Sarah Phelan's piece on smart development... She quotes SPUR Executive Director Gabriel Metcalf on the importance of public transit to job location..." I gues the guy has never heard of zoning, because zoning has for the past 50-70 years been doing just what he fears for the future: setting out where people will work, live and play. Planning is a lot of cities has over the past decade or two recognized the potential for public transit to provide a viable alternative to the automobile. The response has been the concept of transit-oriented development (TOD) where areas around major transit stops are zoned in a manner that permits higher density mixed-use development that offers people the opportunity to live within walking disatnce of work, or at least live miles away but still be able to use public transit to and from work. Cheers. George
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