Just what is a negative visual impact?
Who decides?
Ex Vice Mayor Kay Ayala’s
hillside ordinance will loose someone to determine “negative visual impacts.”
Just who will that be? Larry Cannon? If it does not have a clock tower will
it have a negative visual impact? If it does not meet the needs of the busybody
Downtown Heritage Committee will it have a negative visual impact? Who decides
is almost as important as what is a negative visual impact. I am sure Scot Adams
large house on a smallish size lot might have a negative visual impact to some—just
like a motor home in a backyard. Mr. Adams probably thinks his house looks fine
where it is and the motor home owner probably thinks that his motor home looks
just fine in his side yard. Who decides then? A new committee? Just what we
need.
Left keeps tipping off whom they really are
In a bash Rush Limbaugh session, the women on The View recently declared Mr.
Limbaugh to be cruel and un-American for what they interpreted as racist and
sexist remarks about senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. They concluded
the segment by asserting, “We have three great candidates.” However,
they tipped off how they REALLY feel by adding, “Mommy, daddy and grandpa.”
John McCain the grandpa? A little less equal than the others? Hem???? A little
Republican-a-phobic? A little ageism?
More damning, however, are the mommy, daddy remarks. This motley crew of know-nothings
is promoting the socialist state. We need mommies and daddies to take care of
us? Socialists think so. Of course, grandpas cannot be included unconditionally
in the mommy and daddy state because they are past their prime—unless
they are former Klansman Senator Robert F. Byrd or International diplomat ex-president
Jimmy Carter. Just wait for the Democrat’s socialized medicine. John McCain
will not be approved for Melanoma surgery because he has outlived his usefulness
and there are more deserving candidates for medical care—Democrats, Ted
Kennedy, and young people?
We report, you decide.
The General Plan update is now in its sixth year. Incompetence? Indifference?
Business as usual?
Former City manager Deborah Acosta McKeehan said often that things move just
a little bit slowly in Pleasanton. She of course meant that things are done
right because they are done slowly. That is not so, so what is the real reason
why things just are not done?
Agenda politics is the most obvious answer. “Move slowly and nothing will
happen” is the strategy of the bloated City Hall bureaucracy, the NIMBYs,
and the eco extremists.
The committee-happy city government this time chose not to involve citizens
in the General Plan review process because it would take too long. Oh, really?
Place a substantial state fine for failing to meet a general plan deadline and
watch how much more rapidly things will be completed.