Outstanding dig! Think you nailed it.

One of their suggestions is to encourage use of bicycles for trips of less that 3 miles. We know what they mean by "encourage." They want to penalize people for driving.

And it's an island - how far do people typically drive? The average trip is probably less than 3 miles, meaning they want to restrict nearly all vehicle traffic.

So all the black fencing is not to hide "clean up"... when they take down the fence, it's "Aloha!", a 15 minute city! And gee, Oprah has been planning ahead. She built a 40,000 sq foot underground structure. Hmm. Bet it has a tunnel leading to other billionaire basements and a quiet secluded cove. For.....moving small people.

Why do they plan out to 2050 if climate change is going to kill us in a few years?

i hate these mother fuckers.

OH, so that's why San Francisco closed down Market St., resulting in ALL businesses shut down. (Video Proof)

For the longest time I couldn't find the primary motive. Thank you fren

Nice, comprehensive and well detailed. We are being herded as we speak, while the sleep dust continues to be sprinkled.

Screen name checks out.

Makes me wonder if we can call the dude in the video and see what he knows and how we can support him.

Does anyone know his name? Maui phone book?

'Mystery company' buys $800M of land near California's Travis AFB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mkZ28AiOF8&t=199s NOT only Maui

This post is cuttoff on the left on android brave browser in desktop site, just fyi.

Very strong work, friend! We need more of this kind of high-quality post here.

I do want to say this though. We should evaluate any policy proposal on its merits. This model being described here is basically what towns used to look like before the automobile was invented. You'd have a downtown area. The shopkeepers would live on the second floor and open their shops on the first floor of the same building. You'd have enough local shops to buy what you need within walking distance. There were no big box retailers like Wallyworld or TarGay or Ikea. You'd know the baker, the butcher, the folks at the general store, etc. This idea, in and of itself, does work. If you live in a small town, you know this. If you live in a historical part of many major cities, you can see the echoes of this as well. The same idea worked at scale. They'd just add a few floors up. If you've ever been to Paris or the French Quarter of New Orleans or any of a dozen other places, you can see this.

So, why push this in the first place?

The reason is maintenance costs. Every city has a local government that has to figure out how to fund city services which include water, sewer, sanitation, and most importantly, the roads. Roads are expensive structures. And in the farther you go towards the poles, the more the fluctuations in the weather wear hard on roads. Anyone who's ever lived through winter knows what pothole season is where the expansion and contraction cycle of the road surface allows water to penetrate into microcracks and eventually, you get cracks and chunks of the road coming out that trash your car's suspension. The city has to fill them every year. If you're in the north, they have to salt the roads during snowstorms. If you live in a rainy part of the country, you have to have adequate drainage built into the system to keep the roads clear and avoid flooding, because no one wants see the sewer back up into the roads during a thunderstorm. It turns out that cities require an absolutely enormous amount of civil engineering to build well and maintain.

Now, if you're in a very densely packed urban environment, you can provide all of those services in a very cost-efficient way when measured in cost/taxpayer. That keeps politicians happy. But if you've got a county-wide government (like most major metro areas do), you now have to fund all of the roads and services running out to the suburbs as well. That's where things get expensive. And when you look at the models, suburbs ends up being net costs to the system. They're takers and freeloaders. They don't generate as much tax revenue as they require in order to maintain their services. They have to be supported by the denser parts of the city on a cost-per-taxpayer basis.

Ultimately, this is a cost-savings/efficiency initiative.

Of course, the communists use it as a Trojan horse. What they actually want is what they're doing in Britain which is to build the surveillance state right in, ban the cars, curtail your freedom, and put you in a position where to enjoy rights you have now, you have to ask the government for permission later. Utopia becomes dystopia when you let these tyrants have control. But just in terms of pure architecture and city planning, this isn't a totally off-base idea. The suburban Levittowns were a luxury that could only exist in the post-war era. We simply no longer have that kind of prosperity.