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MyspaceDo you think the Veronica Meadows development project would be on the ballot, a costly June ballot we can ill afford, if Das Williams were still on the City Council? The lengths Mr. Lee has promised he will go to curry the favor of June voters in order to desecrate hallowed land, to persuade Santa Barbara to give up yet another invaluable natural habitat to build huge, high energy-consuming homes for the one percenters disgusts me.
The mountains and ocean used to be sacred to the people who lived here. Boys in my sister’s Santa Barbara High School class of 1967 used to tear down at night what they could of Bonnymede, built by the first so-called developers, who do not revere the mountains or the ocean unless they increase the price of their real estate. This was prior to the yuppie gentrification of Santa Barbara, which has ruined its seaside charm. Fie on their obsession with money. Thank you for voting against these vultures, Bendy White. Perhaps you know their black hearts as well as I do.
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I'm with you on this 100% VM. This is why I always argue that we should build upwards, not outwards to preserve these spaces and our agricultural land as well. Obviously the whole world can't live here. But there has to be a way of countergentrification without driving out more of the middle class, what middle-class that has survived anyways.
What's more important, a view or actual preservation. You can have beautiful multistory buildings, you can have ugly ones. But we only get one chance at actual preservation.
Ken_Volok (anonymous profile)
January 31, 2012 at 12:56 a.m. (Suggest removal)
VM: "to build huge, high energy-consuming homes for the one percenters disgusts me."
Oh please, let the occupoo thing go already. In fact, it wouldn't be those supposed 1%ers occuwasting those homes, it'd be wannabe 99%ers & their 2.5 kids, 2 cars, cat & a dog doing that.
I'm NOT for this development, as most development these days is a waste of space, espcially when nobody's got the $$$ to buy & prices remain high.
But to claim the 1%ers are who's gonna bite the bait is simply ridiculous. Please, do us a a kindness & give it a rest already.
KenV: "This is why I always argue that we should build upwards, not outwards to preserve these spaces and our agricultural land as well."
Monolithic construction has it's benefits, but the downside is that it blocks views & that is then yet another problem. I got an idea: NO MORE DEVELOPMENT UNTIL THE ECONOMY STABILIZES.
KenV: "Obviously the whole world can't live here."
That is absolute truth my friend, but the fact remains: The whole world is gonna try :) henry
hank (anonymous profile)
January 31, 2012 at 12:40 p.m. (Suggest removal)
The land is no longer scared. Twice last month I hoofed 30+ beer cans, beer bottles,wine bottles etc. on Sunday morning off the Beach, cleaning up after the Saturday Night crowd at Mesa Lane. No respect for themselves or anyone else. Same crew, who could they be?
Sort of reminds me of Floatopia.
howgreenwasmyvalley (anonymous profile)
February 1, 2012 at 2:11 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Howgreen...: "The land is no longer sacred. Twice last month I hoofed 30+ beer cans, beer bottles,wine bottles etc. on Sunday morning off the Beach, cleaning up after the Saturday Night crowd at Mesa Lane. No respect for themselves or anyone else. Same crew, who could they be? Sort of reminds me of Floatopia."
Not far off the mark there friend. I've seen this crowd, sketchy @ best, getting ready for another night of thrashing that place. You're right, a mini-craptopia in the making :) henry
hank (anonymous profile)
February 1, 2012 at 2:58 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I don't know about what percentages of Orange County refugees would really buy those second-home McMansions there jammed between the eroding creek channel and the landslides, but I do know that any Veronica Middens project if ever built will generate a huge amount of traffic on Los Positas Road, taking it from level of service F to level H.
John_Adams (anonymous profile)
February 10, 2012 at 7:32 a.m. (Suggest removal)