Health & Fitness
Plan Bay Area
Our local government has lost control & is operating under the radar with an integrated long-range transportation and land-use/housing plan for the San Francisco Bay Area, on March 22, 2013.
Plan Bay Area is based on several faulty assumptions. One assumption is that unelected bureaucrats should be making decisions regarding land use and housing that should be left to local elected officials and the free market. Another assumption is that these unelected bureaucrats are prescient enough to predict what will happen in the next 25 years. There is no way this plan will succeed with heavy subsidies. ABAG and MTC do not respond to any feedback mechanisms. When public transit systems are a disaster, they recommend building more. When cars and roads are the preferred method of transportation they write policies to restrict parking and purposely cause congestion to "nudge" people out of their cars. When people don't want stack and pack housing in their communities, they insist that those types of units be built and punish towns by withholding road repair funds for non-compliance.
