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Girard at Large Continues to Hammer Plan Pinardville

From Girard at Large Radio Blog:

“We do not believe you and we are not stupid.”

“That’s what Pinardville resident and Plan Pinardville opponent Gaetane Benner wrote in a letter to Plan Pinardville ad hoc committee member Tony Marts. Marts, a local attorney who has been involved in several Goffstown development projects, issued a letter on Tuesday defending his participation on the ad hoc committee overseeing the development of the controversial master plan. Benner challenged Marts’ representation that he’d only been marginally involved in development activity citing his involvement in the mixed use development involving Rite Aide and a swath of low income housing developed by Greater Manchester Neighborworks along Mast Road. She also wrote that his name was all over the documents on the controversial Moose Club apartment development that’s building forty eight apartment units in Pinardville. Benner also wrote that eliminating the residential neighborhoods from the zoning proposal was quote just another attempt to fool us end quote. She believes that if Mast Road is developed as proposed, traffic pressures will force bypass roads to be built and lead to the takings of back yards to create alleyways as envisioned in the plan. We’ve posted Benner’s letter with this newscast at Girard at Large. It’s an interesting read of the various issues the neighbors have with the plan. We’ve also reposted Marts’ letter.

In a related matter, our friends at GoffstownToday.com are publishing a five part series on the proposed plans and members of the ad hoc committee. They’ve raised some interesting points and questions, not the least of which are the conflicts of interest that may exist between members of the ad hoc committee and the intentions of the proposed plan.”

In our opinion, this is what every town should be doing to put an end to this GSF nonsense in their towns, and we commend Girard and Wynne for taking this on.

Plan Pinardville Won’t See the Light of Day

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This won’t make the proponents of Granite State Future happy but according to those in the know in Goffstown, Plan Pinardville won’t see the light of day.

Thanks to Girard at Large for covering this small portion of Granite State Future’s effects on a NH community, GSF’s not-so ‘community-based’ ideas are not being well received by the residents of that small area.

Please listen in to Hour 2 of Girard at Large for the details.

Girard at Large can be heard locally on WLMW 90.7 FM and we thank him for taking up this issue.

Plan Pinardville is GSF and Agenda 21 in microcosm.

From Rosa Koire

Rosa Koire describes what Plan Bay Area would do to her state. It is the same everywhere.

“This fight is not local — it is national. The United States is undergoing a radical transformation as hundreds of regional plans are approved by complicit or ignorant city councils and county supervisors. These plans are called Sustainable Ohio, PlaNY, Granite State Future, One Valley One Vision, Power of 32, Vision 2050, Blueprint, Focus, One Region, Seven50 — look around for it in your town. Plan Bay Area/ One Bay Area is the name for the Plan in the San Francisco nine county 101 city area. This plan is similar to all of the regional plans in the nation — it calls for high density residential/mixed use (Smart Growth) transit oriented development in the center of every city and town, development that will be subsidized by your tax dollars. Regional plans are called ‘living documents’ and are designed to change every 4 years — updating is what they call it. These plans become more restrictive every time.

Plan Bay Area is different. It is your future if you don’t stop it.

Plan Bay Area is the most radical, damaging regional plan in the United States. We believe it is the template, the model, for the rest of the Plans. Plan Bay Area identifies Priority Development Areas and Priority Conservation Areas and establishes quotas. Plan Bay Area requires 80% of all future residential development and 66% of all future commercial development to be constructed in just 4% of the land area in nine counties and 101 cities. Hundreds of thousands of acres will be undevelopable. Land that is inside of urban growth boundaries. Urban land. This will devastate land values and land use for generations.

Plan Bay Area places a de facto building moratorium on all rural property in all nine counties. Plan Bay Area says that 100% of development must be in urban areas. Plan Bay Areas calls for 0% — zero — of non-farm development in rural areas.

Plan Bay Area is creating the ‘islands of human habitation’ called for in UN Agenda 21. Restricting development to high density multi-story apartments and condos in the center of your city while imposing new zoning codes that don’t allow for anything else, your government is redesigning the future. You are paying for it. If you object you’ll be ignored, shamed, ridiculed, called a racist, a NIMBY, selfish, and a patriot. When did ‘PATRIOT’ become a bad thing? When regionalization/globalization began erasing your jurisdictional boundaries. Your city, county, state, and ultimately, federal boundaries.

Plan Bay Area empowers regional unelected boards as the governing body for the ‘region.’ Through federal mandates the money for infrastructure, eminent domain, land development, and transportation transformation comes into your ‘region.’ The money is managed and distributed by a regional board — the metropolitan planning organization (MPO) and council of government (COG).

You’ll see grant money from the Partnership for Sustainable Communities (HUD, EPA, DOT), and from private foundations partnering with government. Local governments starved for funds and directed by state legislation reach for these grants without realizing the consequences.”

Agenda 21 in Pinardville

Girard at Large hits the nail on the head in these two clips of this morning’s show.

This is going on all over the country.

The names of the plans are different but the goal is the same — control of property and herding people into urban areas while limiting rural development using “sprawl” as an excuse.

Mixed use zoning is so that people will have to live and shop and work in the same place and not use cars.

Eventually HUD will be determining local zoning laws to create more racially and economically mixed neighborhoods as they already have been doing with mixed use zoning.

Forced integration if you will…

Yes the regional planners are just another layer of unelected government bureaucrats putting the people further from the governmental process and the “stakeholders” are the crony capitalists who stand to benefit from the resulting projects

It’s not just a conspiracy theory anymore.

See what HUD has planned for your local town.

Here is an entry from the Federal Register that lays out the plan for Agenda 21: (click for larger view)

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Smart Growth America Schemes for Bigger Federal Role in Real Estate

Listen to the members of Smart Growth America as they scheme to promote a larger role for the federal government in local real estate development and sales and housing policies.

Social justice and racial and economic profiling are the key words here.

http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/media/a-call-for-action_7-25-2013/lib/playback.html

Rob Astorino, the Westchester County Executive, recently said, “What they are trying to do is to say discrimination and zoning is the same thing. They are not. Discrimination won’t be tolerated. I won’t tolerate it. Zoning though, protects what can and can’t be built in a neighborhood.”

Read more and watch the video after the ad: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/07/obama-administration-using-housing-department-to-compel-diversity-in/

Zoning is NOT racial or economic discrimination!

Residents Horrified at Plan Pinardville ‘Form Based Code’

Looks like the town is poised to take over property from Pinardville (Goffstown) under the new Plan Pinardville ‘smart codes’.

Please listen to Girard at Large for the details.

Update: Goffstown selectmen asked to dissolve Plan Pinardville committee

The Smart Code, the draft Character-Based Development Ordinance for Pinardville, is available for review at http://www.goffstown.com/planpinardville

The next meeting of the Plan Pinardville Ad Hoc Committee is Tuesday, Aug. 13, at 7 p.m. at Town Hall, Room 106.

Compact Housing Comes to Laconia

The Laconia Daily Sun reports that planners are happy about plans for new, affordable apartments downtown. This is only the beginning of the push for ‘compact housing’.

“LACONIA — The Planning Board last night unanimously approved the proposal by the Laconia Area Community Land Trust to construct a three-story, affordable housing apartment building on the lot tucked between lower Union Avenue and the Winnipesaukee River last occupied by the F.W.Webb Company, a wholesale plumbing and heating firm.”

“The building will house 12 one-bedroom units, each 675-square-feet and 20 two-bedroom units of 864-square-feet.”

Goffstown Residents Oppose GSF

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Listen to the audio file of the Girard at Large show where a discussion took place about “Plan Pinardville”, the GSF plan for Goffstown, NH.

See the video of the various Goffstown residents OPPOSING HUD grants which would enable zoning and planning changes and impositions on the town that residents DO NOT WANT.


The Names Will Change But the Goals Remain the Same

This post is a preview to an upcoming article on how some changes are being made in the way Agenda 21 will be implemented in the United States. Here is a quick outline of what is to come.

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– The UN has been attempting to erase all references to Agenda 21 on their website. Due to the vast number of pages involved, this may take forever. Agenda 21 is now a household word and it’s not looked upon very favorably. The public is catching on.

– The UN has also decided that the term ‘sustainability’ has gotten an equally bad rap. So they have dissolved their United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and focused their attempts to spread ‘global governance’ by creating two new commissions which would work under the premise of ‘economic resilience’ with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Who can argue against economic resilience?

– At the same time, the head of the UN’s ECOSOC Tweeted the real reason this must be done: more ‘global governance’ is needed in order to better redistribute the wealth. We have no idea what this type of social justice has to do with sustainability, but that is how these bureaucrats think.

– Right on cue, the US State Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has issued a notice stating that since Sustainable Communities Initiative grants were not funded in this year’s budget, they would still be included, but under the Office of Economic Resilience (OER)

– The APA, a non-governmental association of planners including unelected regional commissioners to whom they dictate, announced the changes on their website.

Anti-poverty, economic, all of this is no coincidence.

Developing…

How Transparent are Regional Planning Commissions?

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The Lakes Region Planning Commission held an open house last November 2013. The title ‘open house’ would have one thinking the public was welcome but apparently it was not viewed that way by some of the planners.

The Laconia Daily Sun characterized some taxpayers’ attendance with this contradictory article: Tea Party members crash LRPC Open House

Since regional planning commissions are state-created entities and part of taxpayer-funded government, they are subject to the very same right-to-know laws as any other public board or commission. (See RSA 91-A)

Here was the response from those who were accused of crashing: Tea Party members didn’t crash the party; we were invited

Apparently some planning board members share former Meredith Selectman Peter Miller’s desire for certain individuals to ‘stay out of local affairs’ and stick with federal issues. It is just amazing that Miller feels only SOME taxpayers have the right to be concerned over where their money is being spent. And in fact, federal programs are now intruding locally, so it’s very appropriate for all to get involved to fight them there.

And so it began.

In addition to the highly unethical way public input is gathered at ‘listening’ sessions, RPCs are now denying taxpayers the right to know answers to the many questions they have about the Granite State Future program and the role of the RPCs in implementation of same.

Citizen Tim Carter has asked Jerry Coogan of the Lakes Region Planning Commission, to meet with him and other members of the public and the legislature, but thus far has been refused. Carter has demanded that Regional planning officials should answer questions in public and we agree. Mr Coogan stated that “…the public has no guaranteed right to speak at a public meeting….” Please read the full exchange here: Letter from Coogan to Carter

Demand your local regional commission answer all your questions. They are required to by law. Find them from the flip menu on the right column on any page from our main website.