If you’ve been in the Shoreline area lately, you’ve probably seen these signs:
I wish I could say they had a snowballs chance in hell of having any real effect but the Shoreline City Council has a strong track record of completely ignoring what the citizens want and maximizing the land developers profits.
What this is all about is that we’re going to get a light rail station on 185th and I-5 with components on both sides of the I-5.
Not as if itself that wouldn’t completely destroy the nature of the neighbourhood, which presently is a fairly quiet area with single-family dwellings set in a backdrop of a large number of trees. Just to accommodate the station, they’re going to have to destroy Shoreline field on the West side of I-5, and a number of houses and a whole bunch of trees on the East side. So We can kiss goodbye to this neighbourhood.
Agenda 21
As if the light rail invasion isn’t enough, and folks I really don’t mind trains, real trains I enjoy riding on, when the tracks are above ground and the passenger cars are designed for comfortable seating and a good view, but much of this light rail project will be underground. Be all that as it may, what is even more troubling is the council wants to re-zone everything within 1/2 mile into ultra-high density housing, and it is this I have a problem with.
Expect it all to be replaced with high density apartment buildings with inadequate parking. The streets will be absolutely jammed with cars. These people think, hey if we build it without provision for cars, everyone will be forced to take the light rail and we’ll make a bunch of money trying to force something down the throats of people we already know don’t want it.
The idea behind Agenda 21 is that in order to save the planet, we need to push everyone into 6x6ft cubical apartments with no heat, eliminate private transportation, minimize dietary impact by eliminating meat from everyone’s diet, and basically force everyone into a sub-poverty level existence, so that we can return the majority of land to nature.
If you can’t tell, I’m against this. I know technology exists that would allow us to all live a reasonable lifestyle without destroying the planet, but there are too many financial disincentives for developing and putting it in place.
I feel helpless though, because our City Council pretty much ignores our wishes, this has been well demonstrated many times, and the only local news media here doesn’t have the balls to cover anything remotely controversial, so they aren’t going to give this the attention it deserves.
If you’re not in Shoreline, well don’t worry this will be coming to a neighbourhood near you soon as it is a global agenda.