Yes, the unelected, unaccountable and mostly self-funding (multiple taxpayer teats at the ready) group of Commissions that started off doing road planning between neighboring towns – and suddenly, are experts in such varied things as Economic Development to Broadband Deployment in just a few short millions of dollars grants-writing. And now that THAT information is getting out (much to the dismay of paid shills like NHListens (here, here, here, here, sorta here, here) who “facilitate” meetings (and their outcomes) and their propagandists like Action Media (“to neutralize the opposition“)), they are not grooving at ALL that they are no longer being allowed to do their work out of the light of Citizen Flashlights…
…like here, where one of the taxpayer funded presenters, trying to sugercoat the “wassup!”, decided to diss ‘Grok friend Ed from GovernmentOversite (who wields a big Citizen Flashlight indeed). Diss? Er, well, object to the camera being present AND rolling – watch for yourself:
Lesson to the yet-to-be-PR-wise: holding up the yellow lined notepad makes you a bigger target and a more interesting subject to watch. And, as my 1 year old granddaughter will soon learn, blocking the camera lens with said notepad will not automatically make you invisible (something that the 1 year old is already learning, except she just uses her forearm to cover her eyes to make herself invisible to everyone else).
But I digress – here are some of the notes Ed took (emphasis mine, a bit of reformatting, and commenting on the notes on what these Planners really want to do [er, the Ed’s Notes are great and are NOT the target of the snark – the reason why the Notes had to be done is):
Welcome to the Lakes Region Planning Commission’s open house to showcase the Granite State Future. It took place in Meridith NH, at the LRPC offices and began at 5:30pm. The Granite State Future is the name given to a Federal Planning grant called the Sustainable Communities Initiative. There are 9 Regional Planning Commissions in New Hampshire and [the] Nashua has signed an agreement with HUD…
That would be the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. Yes. Urban. For rural NH. And Obama says that the Feds can’t cut even 2 cents out of every $1 from his $3.7 Trillion budget (which I remind you, borrows 42 cents out of every dollar of that dollar from which 2 cents can’t be cut).
to acquire the grant money and coordinate with the 8 other RPC’s to develop regional master plans.
Hey, Citizen? When’s the last time you voted for a master plan, that drives your town’s master plan? Paid for and drawn up by people out of DC? Remember, HUD’s got friends too – the EPA (whose only job seems to be saying NO to any further development of any kind) and the Dept Of Transportation (whose head honcho has said his goal is to drive us all out of our cars). Social Engineering, any one? Sure – just use those commisions and boards nobody knows about. But I digress…
The involvement of the Federal government and the contractual requirements is fueling a strong opposition to this program. The contract that the Nashua planning commission signed, the HUD 1044, has concerning language, such as the sub document of the HUD 1044; the rating factor narrative. It reads: “
One of the steps in the visioning and planning process to be used by each planning region will be to identify existing and potential barriers to ensuring Sustainable Communities and to articulate the strategies the regions will use to mitigate and overcome each barrier. Anticipated barriers include New Hampshire’s strong tradition of individual property rights and the resultant resistance to planning and zoning“.
Go figure that here in the Live Free or Die State that owning stuff is considered a goodness – and that includes land. And Water. Yes, and Individual oriented society we are – our own individual definition of Utopia. No, very few of us will actually achieve such, but remember, it was “the pursuit of Happiness” and not the obtaining thereof.
But our DC Betters, along with their not-so-useful idiots, wish us to live according to THEIR version of Utopia for us all. Everything in walking distance, we all living above stores, “Grocery Stores by Michelle”, free healthcare from docs that are already rejecting Medicare patients, and Chevy Volts (evah try getting ANYwhere of substantial distance with a car running on batteries at -20?). Yeah, all this from the same folks that said that with $1 Trillion of stimulus and their “gentle” hand on the steerage of our economy, we’d have a have a plethora of jobs and unemployment just as we plan. Er, and that has worked out, how well? But I digress….
The opposition finds this language is being omitted from the discussions with the public in order to subversively attack their private property. Towns and cities are asked to participate in the Federal program that will promote international agreements that promote “Sustainable Development’ and integrate the approach to land resource management. The term ‘sustainable development’ was used by the Brundtland Commission which coined what has become the most often-quoted definition of sustainable development: “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
Go read the whole thing! After all, I have to sustainably use our Communitarian supply of snark – we have to leave some for future generations too! Hey wait, doesn’t that leave out the most important thing in this whole environmental thing?
Yeah, it does – when Freedom reigns (instead of bureaucracies do-gooders making choices “on your behalf”), the human spirit SOARS – and then Human Ingenuity (which seems antithetical to these Central Planners) comes up with solutions that surpasses any “ordered solutions”.
The Bruntland Commission was formed at the United Nations and is one of the base reports that led up to Agenda 21; the Agenda for the 21st century. Agenda 21 is a framework that is a product of the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992. It is an action agenda for the UN, other multilateral organizations, and individual governments around the world that can be executed at local, national, and global levels. The goal of the agenda is to control all aspects where humans have impact on the environment. The Federal Government has agreed to incorporate “Sustainable Development” into all Federal departments. The executive order that formed president Clinton’s; “Presidents Council on Sustainable development” in 1993 laid the framework to achieve SD in the United States.
The Federal Highway Administration; Federal Transportation Agency; Environmental Protection Agency and Housing and Urban development are being tasked to incorporate the principles in SD into land use and transportation planning. http://www.nhteapartycoalition.org/tea/2013/03/09/how-do-you-crash-an-open-house-just-ask-the-nhtpc/
