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Posted on July 3 at 3:40 p.m.
Regarding comments of Gaviotamilitiaman.
You and I are probably in total agreemnet on most things but you are wrong on the PXP deal. EDC, GOO and CPA are strong champions of the environment and they got the best possible deal imaginable. We get over 3000 acres of very good land donated for public use which includes about 200 acres right on the Gaviota coast. In addition PXP has agreed to the most stringent environmental conditions plus they will give about $1.5 million to the City or County of SB to be used for air quality offsets. Plus it gets the platform that they will be driling from shut down many years earlier than might otherwise be the case. Lets get real, we do need some oil and when it can be gotten relatively safely with all those other benefits we need to do it. EDC would never sell us out. They are as committed as anyone to protecting the environment. Same with CPA and GOO.
Posted on July 3 at 9:06 a.m.
Right on gaviotamilitia! Just a bunch of greed-freak pigs feeding at the trough! Mo' money, mo' money, mo'money! Climates getting hotter, water is getting scarcer, ag land is disappearing, bringing food from faraway places is getting harder. You think those super rich Orange county developers give a darn. Not likely. They'll gladly fiddle while Gaviota burns or gets totally destroyed through massive over development. We citizens will ultimately pay the bill in the form of vastly decreased quality of life. We need to write letters, show up at hearings and stop this madness.
Posted on July 3 at 6:30 a.m.
Paul,
Don't hold your breath. Americans are too involved in who is having sex with whom and gay marriage, and our right to have high powered automatic weapons in large numbers to ever seriously deal with anything as boring as public transporation, or to do anything that requires even a little sacrifice. God has entitled us to import all the resources from all the world to waste and waste and waste. Anyone who says otherwise is a commie, a terrorist or a liberal.
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Posted on July 3 at 6:23 a.m.
Certainly seems like an excellent time to approve new provision of water to developments out along the Gaviota Coast which will destroy potential ag land. Also seems like a very good time to approve scores and scores of megamansions out there too, since fire hazards seem so minimal and fighting them seems so cheap and easy. Our three brilliant North County supervisors certainly seem to think so as do their flunkies on the Planning Commission and in the Planning and Development, or should I say the Development Department, as they do very little planning, just approving.
Posted on June 30 at 4:54 p.m.
I think we can have a polite exchange here, folks. Of course Matt Osgood is not the bogeyman. However, he is far from a benign fellow. He is a greedy, Orange County developer and this project will destroy the Gaviota coast. His recent proposed changes, so called Alternative 1 "prime" in which he cleverly moves some 14 houses inland to escape , he hopes, jurisdiction of the Coastal Commission is just putting lipstick on a pig. I sort of feel sorry for him in some ways in that he has no idea how long and how hard the local citizens will fight this project. If he were smart and less greedy he would come to the table and make some serious concessions, especially in regards to the 16 or so huge mansions south of 101 that he wants. Meanwhile his lawyers and agents like Mark Lloyd are the only ones making any money on this project. I hope his financial backers wake up soon and realize they are not going to get any return on their investment this decade if ever.
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Posted on June 25 at 10:48 a.m.
"Common errors of pronunciation: nuclear, pronounced "nucular"
Don’t let George W. Bush's example lead you astray! The word is pronounced as it is spelled: nuclear, not “nucular.”
By now his handlers would have corrected him if they wanted to. He is encouraged to mis-pronounce the word to aggravate his opponents and to make him sound more folksy and Texas drawly. He still has a large appeal among people who cannot speak English very well and who cannot think too clearly either. Apparently it worked as he managed to win the last two elections and for a while he was very popular. However, you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Posted on June 23 at 2:41 p.m.
Vanity plates are so silly that this is a tempest in a teapot. The sort of folks who would feel the need to proclaim on their license plate of all places that they believe ( I Believe....in what) are obviously pretty unsure of themselves. If there is a god that can see into our hearts he/she/it already knows they believe. Maybe they are hoping that very devout Christian state troopers won't give them speeding tickets.
Posted on June 23 at 2:20 p.m.
It doesn't matter what staff says or what the realistic future water situation is. The current Golet City Council wants to see lots of growth and increased urbanization in order to raise more revenue and becuae they just believe in growth. Until we throw the bums out we will get one big project approved after another.
Posted on June 14 at 3:14 p.m.
Now that even Governor Schwartzenegger has declared a statewide drought, communities throughout the west are feeling the effects of a prolonged and likely permanent drought, and even Montecito is starting to feel the effects don't you think it would be a wonderful time for the GOLETA WATER DISTRICT to annex some agricultural land on the Gaviota coast. Just the perfect solution; build big mansions for rich out of towners, destroy much needed agricultural land close to urban areas and use up our limited supplies of water all so we can destroy the last pristine coastal chapparal in southern California. Good plan Goleta Water Board.
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Posted on July 3 at 3:59 p.m.
Regarding comments of sbreader,
Have no fear, Firestorm will do his best to wreak lots of havoc in his 6 lameduck months. Mainly he will do everything in his power to get the huge Santa Barbara Ranch development at Naples rushed through and approved. However, he can be thwarted if concerned citizens like you and me show up at the various hearings and raise bloody hell. Go to www.savenaples.org now and find out how to help. Also go to the EDC website, www.edcnet.org or the Surfrider website www.sbsurfrider.org
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