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My God, 75 posts and finally someone posts what I thought of with the OP. I guess some of those who have been in so far haven't been exposed to Agenda 21 although it is their fault as plenty of us have given them chances. Maybe some of the ICLEI captives we have here saw it and just ignored hoping nobody else would see it. Obiously Bloomberg has been to UN headquarters getting info about Agenda 21.
My God, 75 posts and finally someone posts what I thought of with the OP. I guess some of those who have been in so far haven't been exposed to Agenda 21 although it is their fault as plenty of us have given them chances. Maybe some of the ICLEI captives we have here saw it and just ignored hoping nobody else would see it. Obiously Bloomberg has been to UN headquarters getting info about Agenda 21.
Agenda 21 at work. Stack em and rack em in beehives.
A poster mentioned the stink of Agenda 21 as the 76th poster in this thread and not one soul saw that, I guess, That one was at 10:02 pm, just 2 hours from you. I think some of those answers that followed that one were done to cover up that one.
What's funny is, if the laws currently said it was OK to build 300 sq ft apts, or heck, even 200 sq ft and Bloomberg was trying to pass a law that said the minimum size had to be 400 sq ft, the conservatives here would be flipping out about it. It's a pretty good illustration about how rampant hyper-partisanship is on C-D.
This proposal is an attempt to create affordable housing for people just starting their careers in one of the financial capitals of the world. Not a bad idea. BTW I think this only applies to Manhatten Island.
Yeah, it's designed to deal with the dire shortage of affordable housing on Manhattan. Basically, smaller is cheaper ergo more low to medium income people can afford it. It's not an attempt, as some loonies have claimed in this thread, to force people into houses they don't want and instead it is simply to give people another option, one which they can actually afford yet still allow them to live in Manhattan.
This isn't a new trend either as places like Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Singapore have been doing this for decades. It allows people who don't make much money but who are vital to the city (like the waiters, the cooks, the house keepers, the college students, the young people, the folks working at the stores in the mall, the kid selling you tickets to the movies, etc...) to actually be able to live in the city they work in. That means it will be easier to find people willing to work those low income jobs in the city so people who are better off actually end up paying lower prices. Such long term city planning is actually good for the city's economic health and vitality.
What's funny is, if the laws currently said it was OK to build 300 sq ft apts, or heck, even 200 sq ft and Bloomberg was trying to pass a law that said the minimum size had to be 400 sq ft, the conservatives here would be flipping out about it. It's a pretty good illustration about how rampant hyper-partisanship is on C-D.
I don't think hyper-partisanship is necessarily an issue, but all-out stupidity we see around here surely is.
First of all nobody is FORCING anybody to live anywhere they do not wish. But the fact is that Americans should be able to choose the size of where they live. If 300 sq ft is OK with you, why should the city or the county tell you that you can't have it? If you own land and a trailer is what you desire, then you should be able to have one. That is just the way I see things.
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