I try to feel sorry for Californians. But from all appearances, to be boned is their goal. I wrote a snarky piece a few days ago which included this bit:
Al Gore lectures you on how you can live and what level of success you will be allowed to achieve, and meanwhile you won’t mind living in your assigned shoebox apartment in the government district with your travel rations because they won’t allow you to mind.
My cousin, Darth Marmoset, e-mailed and complained, “Dude, isn’t that a little over the top?” Uh huh. Sure it is. From the Wall Street Journal in an article by Wendell Cox:
Metropolitan area governments are adopting plans that would require most new housing to be built at 20 or more to the acre, which is at least five times the traditional quarter acre per house. State and regional planners also seek to radically restructure urban areas, forcing much of the new hyperdensity development into narrowly confined corridors.
You just can’t make this stuff up.