For some reason or another, the majority of people headlining Vision Long Island's Smart Growth conference are members of either large corporations seeking favorable zoning (or revenue) or government planners seeking their own fame and fortune.
Smart Growth has been around for a few decades and doesn't work. Never has and never will. The principles behind it rely on government coercion, faulty science and wishful thinking.
Central planners and progressive agitators have different goals but share the same passion for controlling the voters as any political machine. The central planners think they know more than anyone else and the progressive agitators can't stand the fact that some people succeed and others don't.
According the groups like Vision Long Island, suburbia is a nightmare. Filled with giant SUV's polluting the atmosphere, hideous strip malls and mcmansions as far as the eye can see.
Vision Long Island, the Working Families Party, Acorn and the rest of the left feel that such development interferes with their vision of autopian society where everyone goes to work riding their bicycle.
Just who are these people? Eric Alexander, from Vision Long Island, was recently criticized for having a “very light resume” when it comes to regional issues. The rest of the bunch are just looking to get their names in the paper or in the latest trendy blog.
If 'smart growth' policies were so sound, why doesn't everyone VOLUNTARILY adopt them. Why does it take an act of the state or county legislature to institute this madness?
