{"id":3425,"date":"2012-03-29T19:44:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T19:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/?p=3425"},"modified":"2016-12-01T16:52:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T00:52:42","slug":"why-is-smart-growth-destructive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/why-is-smart-growth-destructive\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is “Smart Growth” Destructive?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hog Disguised with Lipstick, named Tom Gray<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

(c) Copyright 2000-2012 <\/strong>David Dilworth<\/p>\n

“Smart Growth<\/strong>” is Doublespeak<\/strong> and an Oxymoron.<\/p>\n

Along with “Postal Service<\/strong>“, “Jumbo Shrimp<\/strong>” and “Congressional Ethics<\/strong>” – “Sustainable Development<\/strong><\/em>” is a self canceling or contradictory phrase along with its new disguise called “Smart Growth<\/strong><\/em>.”<\/p>\n

“Sustainable Development<\/strong>” was a tricky term developers used to disguise growth. Its goal was purely propaganda – to make you think that slowing growth down stops the harm. Its secret intent was to avoid looking at growth’s long term harm – even harm from very, very slow growth.<\/p>\n

So, when “Sustainable Development” got shot down, developers had to come up with something new. Not anything real mind you – just a new, and improved name. That new name is “Smart Growth<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

At about the same time a few (very few) people just plain worn out from losing environmental battles inadvertently came to their aid and adopted the term too.<\/p>\n

Well, as former Texas Governor Ann Richards amusingly noted<\/p>\n

“You can dress up a Hog, put lipstick on it and call it Noreen – but its still a Pig.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Same here – It doesn’t matter whether its called Smart Growth, Genius-Growth or Stupid-Growth – its still Growth, and it still causes harm.<\/p>\n

Growth proposals might “only” destroy one percent of our land and water source a year.<\/strong> Doesn’t sound like much?<\/p>\n

Well how long before all the land and water is gone at one percent a year?<\/strong> How long before that would you object to excessively loss of open lands?<\/p>\n

No one wants our Peninsula to look like San Jose or Tokyo. But we can’t avoid SanJoseification – if we don’t stop growing at some point. If we don’t stop, no matter how slow (or “smart”) you grow, someday our whole Peninsula will be paved over just like San Jose.<\/p>\n

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La Jolla – Aerial View<\/p><\/div>\n

Remember San Jose<\/strong> used to be covered with trees – like our Peninsula is – so far . . .<\/p>\n

So Smart Growth means NEVER STOPPING GROWTH – literally continuing to grow forever.<\/strong> But we can’t grow forever because at some point we use up 100% of, or run out of, land and water. Long before then, life (like traffic and water rationing) becomes unpleasant, then unbearable and finally — toxic.<\/p>\n

What do you think ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(c) Copyright 2000-2012 David Dilworth “Smart Growth” is Doublespeak and an Oxymoron. Along with “Postal Service“, “Jumbo Shrimp” and “Congressional Ethics” – “Sustainable Development” is a self canceling or contradictory phrase along with its new disguise called “Smart Growth.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3425"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3428,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425\/revisions\/3428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}