blogging for the future

There is something to be said for the future and electric vehicles. Society's quest for urban growth towards automobile oriented sprawl is unsustainable. A clean air electric car does nothing to minimize road rage, wrecks or traffic fatalities. Highway patrol units will still issue traffic tickets. Without reigns, the Valley's farmland will disappear under the disc of stucco development. The BIA uses it political might to prepare statewide doubling of housing densities for its tunnel visioned tract developers lower land costs; with zero insight to the consequence to existing infrastructure and travel arteries. Urban growth is changing and profitability is available in large quantities with new growth patterns of high density TOD building. The BIA has to discover this insight to survive.

California's AB32 targets mandate environmental justice that can only be obtained by urban growth away from unsustainable automobile centric sprawl. The real estate development industry has to consider the same building methodology that allowed phenomenal growth percentage rates of the 1800s with privatized mass transit. These techniques are tried and proven for sustainable city expansion. High density multi-use development creates social equity, economic success and is environmentally clean with modern building techniques.

Electrically powered or clean fueled vehicles alone, with traditional automobile oriented real estate development, are inadequate to provide sustainable land-use urban growth. Transit corridors which provide alternative forms of mobility and mass transit are necessary to provide economic, environmental and social success. History shows growth along these corridors stimulates local and regional economic strength with high density development at transit station sites.

The root of California's economic demise is the un-sustainability of the automobile. According to the CEC, $110million per day is consumed at the pump in California to pay for gasoline. That money is extracted from California's economy due to the function of real estate being designed only for an automobile instead of people.

There are many solutions.