Otherwise known as “Stack’em and Pack’em” – SCI wants zoning changes such that higher density living will be mandated – high rise living for all with retail on the first couple of floors, sidewalks galore, and if you like public transportation, you will be in love with your only source. The single family homes of suburbia will simply be now over-densified and remade into little urban areas and rural areas may well be eliminated so that “green space” will hem in humans into certain areas and no further. Think of it as TreeHuggers writing housing and living policies for the rest of us – freedom of choice will be regulated away. So if that happens, what happens when this happens (emphasis mine, reformatted):
7.5 quake on California fault could be disastrous — kill thousands, cost billions
The shaking from a 7.5 quake at the Puente Hills thrust fault in the center of urban Los Angeles could be so intense it would lift heavy objects in the air, could kill 3,000 to 18,000 people and cause up to $250 billion in damage. Experts say a bigger earthquake along the lesser-known fault that gave Southern California a moderate shake could do more damage to the region than the long-dreaded “Big One” from the more famous San Andreas Fault. The Puente Hills thrust fault, which brought Friday night’s magnitude-5.1 quake centered in La Habra and well over 100 aftershocks by Sunday, stretches from northern Orange County under downtown Los Angeles into Hollywood — a heavily populated swath of the Los Angeles area.
A magnitude-7.5 earthquake along that fault could prove more catastrophic than one along the San Andreas, which runs along the outskirts of metropolitan Southern California, seismologists said.
As a dyed in the wool New Englander who used to visit California fairly frequently,
