[SOC] more BULLS*IT!!!! from adam

[JMcAulay]

At 01:04 AM 04/15/2002 EDT, Adam, N7YA wrote:

> Theyre everywhere, we have (had) an area out here called Red Rock, a 
>beautiful area where the rock  was multi colored and all kinds of wildlife 
>lived there...the city buckled under the pressure of developers and now its 
>packed with cookie cutter crapola stucco houses for suburbanites and their 
>ilk...hooray for political favors.

I am appalled.  That area was one of the most beautiful things Las Vegas
had to offer.  Driving through, which unfortunately not very many people
did, was a visual treat not paralleled anywhere within a hundred miles.  It
was a delight just to stop and picnic, surrounded by a vast cavern of
silence.  Putting houses there seems hardly more enlightened than sticking
a neon Budweiser sign on Jefferson's forehead at Mount Rushmore.  I, for
one, would be embarrassed to live there, knowing what had to go away so I
could have my house in such a once-lovely place.

> This area was promised to the city to remain untouched, go figure...we have 
>a few good people in office that i believe actually have a heart, the rest 
>have a job. a real loss to the city...a disappointment for sure, so i know 
>where you stand. 

For 18 years, my home has been in a town called Littlerock, on the edge of
the Mojave desert.  Its name, some say, was given because of nearby
quarries.  There's a lot of agriculture here, especially the growing of
excellent peaches and other fruit.  Littlerock is not incorporated, because
most people who live here want to preserve its "rural character."  This
preservation includes a requirement of one acre minimum lot size to build a
house.  That was, at least, until a developer proposed building a number of
houses on 1/3 acre lots, and the County wizard who is in chrge of this area
called a big meeting to see what people really wanted.  Of the local area
residents who showed up, and there were quite a few, *not a single one*
spoke in favor of this development.  So guess what.  The town now has one
cluster of about a hundred houses on 1/3 acre lots.  Also, the nearby (much
larger) City of Palmdale, which seems to be primarily interested in
development to the exclusion of anything else, has expanded its city limits
so much, they now encompass all the quarries -- great producers of property
tax, of course.  So no longer are there little rocks in Littlerock.

Why does no one nowadays know how to prepare feathers and tar?  Maybe I
should research this for next time.

To me, this whole situation is worse than second class.

73
John WA6QPL  SOC 263