Let’s stop the SB-1 nightmare “Sustainable Communities” bill
By Debra Tash
If there’s a bad idea that comes out of our California legislature better than even money, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg has authored it. Sustainable Communities Investment Authority, Senate Bill 1:
“Sustainable Communities Investment Authority”
It was co-authored by Steinberg and Senator Mark DeSaulnier. Just when you thought Governor Brown buried the Redevelopment Agencies this dynamic duo is attempting to resurrect them.
It’s all about “social equity,” or come on, let’s be fair. Steinberg wants to create sustainable, high-density housing and public transit in small pockets within urban cores. Walkable communities will be built where bicyclists can travel unimpeded by nasty privately owned automobiles. The State will be granted the authority to “blight” an area and then divert tax dollars once more from our local schools to redevelop it using public-private partnerships.
The environment is, of course, the excuse for herding us commoners away from our single family homes and open space. The proof that this kind of urban sardine-hood helps improve air quality and lessen oil consumption is lacking. In fact, high-density housing/apartments have a larger carbon footprint than anyone’s picket-fenced dream home.
Keep in mind that Steinberg also authored SB375 which brought us Plan Bay Area and the other regional plans. He also gets big time campaign contributions for stack and pack developers and financiers who underwrite their projects. “Crony capitalism?”
Governor Brown vetoed the bill once already, and fortunately during the last session it failed to escape the legislature. Brown does not want to divert taxes away from public services. But Steinberg seems to be a true believer in, if at first you don’t succeed, let’s try to stiff the Californian taxpayer one more time. He claims in the bill’s analysis that money will be left over when all of the redevelopment properties are sold off and funds given back to the schools. Perhaps he believes he’ll find that money under some oversized couch cushions.
To stop the madness, please download and collect signatures on the petitions (below)
Let’s stomp out insanity before they lock us all away for the greater good.
Download, print, get signatures: SB1_-_Declaration_Citizens_version
For CA elected officials: SB1_Declaration_for_elected_officials
Return petitions for arrival by 12/16 to:
Heather Gass PO Box 679 Alamo, CA 94507
Just to help motivate you, we lifted this right out of the bill text:
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST
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Debra Tash is Editor-in-Chief of Citizensjournal.us, past president for Citizens Alliance for Property Rights, business executive and award-winning author, living in Somis
Let in 20 million desperados, then find new and interesting ways to stack and pack them with someone else’s money. Awesome urban planning.
Steinberg is a total scumbag. He’s also my local representative and will soon be “termed out” (not able to run again) and we can be thankful for that. Unfortunately, he has aims for a higher office (since he can’t possibly get a non-government job).
He’s also the scumbag who proposed LOTS of anti-gun laws.
So far, they can’t force people to move to places that he wants built. In Sacramento, they’ve done it and there seem to be lots of yuppies who love to live downtown to socialize at the night life there. It’s when they start to force people that we have to worry about it.
This codifies financial support for the whole “sustainable” agenda. a billion dollars worth, paid for by …. YOU.
Heather Gass is a dedicated activist, who intends to take these petitions directly to the Capitol and present them to our legislators.