[quote=pri_dk]Amazing how people cannot see the bigotry and ignorance in their own words:
“They should have stopped letting people in right after I arrived.”
“They should have stopped building houses right after my neighborhood was built.”[/quote]
If you are referring here to me, pri_dk, then there (should) have been no new development in the last 65 years, lol….
In case I haven’t made myself clear here, I am against the massive urban sprawl that has occurred in CA chiefly and only because of the ability of local government (whilst sharing sleeping quarters with Big Developers) to be financially able to annex-in large portions of former wasteland to themselves to form massive CFD’s. This enabled Big Developers to promote (and successfully sell) the following to unwary and uneducated buyers (mostly “transplants”):
* oversized “mcmansions” on <=5000 sf lots
* 400+ unit cardboard condo complexes in the stix
* low-quality "starter homes" in the middle of nowhere and situated on minuscule lots
* "planned communities" in which each of the properties which lie within are encumbered by two or more HOAs
These are but just a few of the allowed projects which we know today caused (and will cause) repeated distress among their individual owners and consequently to the governments of the jurisdictions they are situated in.
Accepting these "bribes" and later mismanaging the responsibility associated with acceptance of these "bribes" is and will continue to be THE major cause of city/county insolvency in this state, IMO.
