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	Name:	MotorMan -
	Subject:	#1 Priority my foot
	Date:	6/9/2007 10:15:12 AM

Kizma Anuice said:
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"We cannot control acts of God. However, someone can control the acts of the guy who pushes the button on the turbine, or the army corp guys, who I might remind you are most likely responsible for the water system in N. O. not being able to hold up under hurricane conditions."
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The Army Corp guys have nothing to do with NOLA's problem. Money was allocated over and over for the levies. The Governor and Mayor spent the funds on docks for marinas, infrastructure for casinos, Canal street's trolley cars and other crap that had near term changes that kept them elected, but no long term levy help.

Now they want to get like $87 billion or an average of $2 million per family extra to fix things (again). They are trading on the dead to cover their blame and greed. Those levies were predicted to fail at the first high water event by the Army Corp. Only mistake was to predict it as a Spring food event and not a hurricane to hit first.

I agree with all above that to push for more water this year will make a 5 minute meeting. We CAN send a representative to Dadeville sewer meetings. We CAN have a "pick up trash" type of day. We CAN send letters to Interstate water people. We CAN talk to Marine patrol people about local things like rock bars, jet skiis going 60 mph near docks, etc. We CAN go to local planning meetings to stop growth without thought just for the tax base increase.

I have never, ever seen a person who wanted "his" lake to have more developement. Be careful what you wish for. I was on a committee in Wisconsin that wanted to slow growth on local lakes. They wanted to raise the lot size minimum to 300' x 300' from 100' wide only. I voted and argued against this. It was passed. As I predicted, in ten years there were 260' wide single family houses with not a tree in front. Only the rich could afford them. One thing I wanted was for new subdivisions of land to have shared docks. Instead of 4 docks per 200', I would have had one big one per 200' split on lot lines. I wanted limited tree removal, clustered housing, more green space. All were "do-able" things.

A writer wants to linit condos to four. "They take out every tree and scalp the land. " he wrote.
Hey, come back in a few years. My Wisconsin land looked like a bomb went off for five years after it was logged . Looks good now. A condo is a great way for $800,000 of land to have 4 units or $200,000 per housing unit. It makes it more affordable. By allowing more units, there will be more profit incentive. Then the whole building can be zoned out of sight with one dock and littile tree removal. Tree replantings and replacements can then be mandated. Enough for here. I'll leave some for the meeting.

Mountain man Jim Bridges left Colorado the summer he saw another white man; "too crowded". Lets leave the "perfect plan" alone and shoot for the "good enough."