Deborah Godshall

Your reply seems to assume that we need to keep building in order to have food and shelter? IMO a crisis is the perfect time to find solutions to what causes the problem in the first place. My assurtion is that we need to find a way to seporate the two. There also seems to be a tone that there is not enough housing. The glut of excess housing is…[Read more]

David,
I’ll have to look for the film. Thanks
The big question that I seem to have is can we have a booming economy WITHOUT covering every trace of buildable land with a house?

Dennis, LOL I agree we as LAs are both the victim and the villan in this. I have been struck by how we (the us public) are quick to try to fix the sympoms such as hybrid cars etc instead of looking at the real cause of enviromental issues such as sprawl. We all find ourselves speaking out of both sides of our mouths when we give lip service to…[Read more]

Steve, I think LEED is great but I think we need to go farther towards conservation subdivisions, and even changing the actual land stripping activities. Development can be smart from the ground up!
The almighty dollar is a real double edged sword. I’ve worked on many sides of this issue and know that if we could find a better way many developers…[Read more]

LOL, what’s a little drama?