This message is for Venturans who believe the resident neighborhood should be the primary influence in adjacent development and are willing to take some action:
WE NEED YOU NOW!
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Greetings!
I urgently need your physical help setting up our new public forum to Save Ventura. The financial expense has been heavy, and I just do not have the physical strength to set up our forum without more help. Having a public forum at the Main Street Mini Fair to educate the public on the virtual destruction of our views, property values and quality of life is crucial to all of us. strolling thruminifair Setting up Five Tents and hauling in all the supplies at 8 am and breaking it down at 4 pm every Saturday until September 26th requires more of us who are physically able to do some part in this monumental effort to save our neighborhoods and community.
Main and Coronado: Approved with one story bungalows in back.
More and more neighborhoods are coming under fire almost weekly now, and the refusal of the New Urbanists to bring heights down to reasonable levels hurts our town as a view-rich community in a natural setting. They simply do not value our sense of place as equal to their agenda for density, because most of them are not from here or did not come here to escape density. They came to create it.
The New Urbanists, mostly not from Ventura, have taken over City New Urbanist ProjectHall and their philosophy of very high density has morphed into an ideology. That means that moderation has gone out the window, and your property values are theirs for the taking. They believe they can change our town into their vision, not ours, without our consent, due to the intensity of their movement. In fact, they have been encouraged with some major successes, which we can still reverse, if we show the political will. Educating the public on what is going on is crucial to matching our will to theirs.
Concrete lasts forever, IS NOT GREEN, and your quality of life will become history unless you take action. If we do not match their intensity and dedication, then they will determine your property values, traffic levels and even the quality of the air you breathe.
It's up to you. I will fight the battle as long as I am standing, and I need you beside me at crucial times. This is one of those urgent times. If you, your children or grandchildren have the physical strength to help pitch a tent or carry a box of supplies, I need you now. Here's what we need right now:
1. Set up and take down: Please just give one Saturday a month at the set up at 8 am or take down at 4 pm.
2. VCORD table volunteers. We need two volunteers to be at our table from 10 to 4. Please schedule a Saturday for even two hours to help.
3. Management and Scheduling: Managing the Mini Fair and talking to all of the folks who want to know about what's happening to our town at the same time is not possible. If you have management and scheduling abilities, we need a volunteer to do that.
Please meet to help set up in the Mini Park this Saturday at 8 am or at take down at 4 pm in the middle of the 300 block on Main Street. It's your town, and it's going to take every one of us stepping up to help, in order to save it.
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It's our town and our choice. Your action can change the city's direction towards overdevelopment by your donation of just a couple of hours or a financial donation.
We need everyone's commitment to prevail.. Please call me at 648-1902, or just show up as the gift that you are!
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Bless your views, inward and outward,
Camille
648-1902
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Origins: When Reagan's knowledge of environmental issues, except for air pollution, was minimal. Even the geography of the north coast, where trees outnumbered people, eluded him. During the 1966 campaign, a reporter asked Reagan a question about the Eel River (a battleground between those who wanted to dam its middle fork and those who sought to preserve it as a wild river). Reagan asked where it was. The reporter told the embarrassed candidate that he was standing alongside it. How much of the remaining fraction of California's old-growth redwood forests should be preserved against commercial logging interests and converted to protected national parkland was a hot-button political issue at the time, pitting the timber industry against conservationists: These splendid trees, rising to heights of more than 300 feet, flourish in a narrow coastal zone influenced by the Pacific Ocean fog. They were an early causes for conservationists, who formed the Save-the-Redwoods League in 1913, embarked on a fund-raising campaign, and persuaded the Legislature to create three redwood state parks encompassing 27,500 acres. The league donated half the land, and the state purchased the remainder from the lumber companies. This was an impressive achievement, but the parks were tiny in relation to the remaining redwood habitat of It was in this context that candidate (not yet governor) Ronald Reagan, while speaking before the Western Wood Products Association in San Francisco on The lumber companies had long opposed a national redwoods park. By the time Reagan took office, however, the industry had retreated under conservationist fire to the more defensible position of accepting a small national park in return for unrestricted logging outside of it. "Small" was the operative word. Timber executives claimed that a large park would eliminate thousands of jobs. Using jobs as their battle cry, they mobilized business and labor support in the two counties (Del Norte and Humboldt) where land would be set aside for the Redwood National Park. I think, too, that we've got to recognize that where the preservation of a natural resource like the redwoods is concerned, that there is a common sense limit. I mean, if you've looked at a hundred thousand acres or so of While the issue candidate Reagan was addressing was a legitimate one Why Reagan said what he did, and why he was so seemingly unresponsive to the conservationist side of the redwoods issue was something of a puzzle, according to Cannon: Conservationists would have been even more frightened had they realized how perfectly this vacuous comment expressed Reagan's opinion. The conventional view of Reagan's statement Eventually, as is often the case, the issue was settled by a political compromise worked out through federal government. In 1968, Congress authorized the creation of the Why he believed what he said, however, remains a mystery. Reagan, who was often attuned to nature, was strangely insensitive to the magnificence of the redwoods, long recognized as natural wonders of the Reagan had a stubborn Last updated: 7 June 2006 Urban Legends Reference Pages © 1995-2008 by snopes.com. This material may not be reproduced without permission. snopes and the snopes.com logo are registered service marks of snopes.com.  Sources:
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