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DESCRIPTION:Agenda:  http://www.abag.ca.gov/abag/events/agendas/e120513a.htm\n\n6. 
 CONSENT CALENDAR\n   E. Approval of an Agreement with San Francisco Bay 
 Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) to Assess Vulnerability of 
 Housing and Communities and Develop Adaptation Responses\n\nAssuming the 
 sea level will be rising, it will probably flood the ground floor level of 
 many dense, multi-story housing projects planned and already built along 
 the Bay shore line.  All of these were built relatively recently.  During a 
 time that we've been told Global Climate Change would be causing something 
 like this to happen.  The development corporations and their finance 
 corporation partners knew this.  But of course, these were condominiums 
 that would be sold after the building was complete.  The aforementioned 
 entities would disappear from responsibility at that point.  But, assuming 
 we want to be a society, WE would be left having to make certain decisions 
 about what to do regarding these structures once the water started to 
 inundate them.  That's what this funding is about.  It’s just the 
 beginning.  WE will eventually be forced to either abandon/tear down these 
 structures or pay to build a levee around the shoreline where these dense 
 populations have been/will be built.  The aforementioned entities will not 
 pay for this.  They get their money relatively up-front.  The entire Bay 
 Area will pay to protect them.  This is something similar to what has 
 happened with BART.  We subsidized developers/bankers making a bundle off 
 of US first paying for the transportation to be built and then paying for 
 it to be operated/maintained.\n\n7. Presentation on Grand Boulevard 
 Initiative\n"The Grand Boulevard Initiative along the El Camino Real in San 
 Mateo and Santa Clara counties provides a successful model for how to 
 promote livable, walkable, and complete communities along a major transit 
 corridor."\n\nWill it?  For those on the peninsula – get involved.  Do 
 you know how to provide for a vibrant community?  Do the urban planners and 
 other associated staffs of many city, county and regional agencies?  I know 
 they don't.  They've spent their entire lives swimming in neoliberalism.  
 Just like "green washing", all of this will be about providing a veneer of 
 "sustainable communities" while making sure much money is shoveled into the 
 hands of developers and bankers.  See where they are heading.  Learn what 
 makes a community.  Start here:  "A Pattern Language : towns, buildings, 
 construction" by Christopher Alexander, et al. [Oxford U Press, 1977]\n\n8. 
 Updates on Plan Bay Area 2013/2017\n\nThis is huge.  Find out what this 
 means.\n\n9. Report on Implementing Plan Bay Area’s Regional Cap and 
 Trade Revenue Allocation Process\n\nCap & Trade is generally something that 
 provides a back door for corporations to make money doing something they 
 shouldn't be doing if they were responsible in the first place.  Is that 
 what this is about?\n\n10. Update on Priority Development Areas (PDAS) and 
 Priority Conservation Areas (PCAs)\n“ ... Timeline and Guidelines for 
 Adding, Removing or Changing PDAs and PCAs; San Rafael Civic Center PDA; 
 ...”\n\nThis is from the previous day's meeting.  The new rules will be 
 important.  For those in Marin County, you should be interested in the San 
 Rafael PDA.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/12/03/18747185.php
SUMMARY:ABAG Executive Board Meeting
LOCATION:Joseph P. Bort MetroCenter, Auditorium\n101 Eighth Street\nOakland CA 94607 
 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/12/03/18747185.php
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