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Why Save El Sobrante??? From annexation by Richmond, rezonIng, redevelopment & eminent domain!!
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Updated March 3, 2010 
Inept West Contra Costa County School District to expand financial chaos - asks for yet ANOTHER BOND to fund their financial indiscretions - see 3/2/10 agenda item
Board of Stupes Reinstitute ED (Eminent domain, not erectile dysfunction) in San Pablo
TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE - WHEN
RICHMOND TRIED TO ANNEX EL SOBRANTE IN FEB. 1997
Tuesday, March 2, Hearing at Board of Supervisors' Meeting on PROPOSED Parcel Tax for El Sobrante Deputy - Agenda & related documents
Did you know that the County already has a Countywide P6 Police Services Area you're paying for? Info here
Contra Costa Budget Woes - Tears, not Rain
Civil Disobedience and the 2010 Census
Halfway to Concord political blog coverage of Gioia/Phillips Dist. 1 Supervisor Race
Info on "P" (Police Service Area) Parcel Tax to be voted on June 8 - map of coverage area - Gioia memo - Board Resolution#2010/97
The GREEN POLICE - is Super Bowl Ad a picture of things to come???? (Fire Inspectors patrol the neighborhood on 'Spare the Air' Days, now)
El Cerrito Solicits their own version of "the green police"
Depopulation Update: Haiti Still Starving, 23 Days Later (Katrina #2??)
El Sobrante MAC Feb. 10, 2010 Meeting Agenda - See proposal for additional parcel tax of $39/yr for another Sheriff's Deputy for El Sobrante
See Mister Phillips' website - have federally subsidized Sheriff patrols made any difference there???? More sheriff's will NOT stop crime and will add to your tax bill
What's Going on In Haiti?? The Bush-Clinton Scam Lives again...
Webster
Tarpley Breaks Down "Bankstergate" - Jan. 11 Interview on Alex Jones'
Show
The US' Role in Haiti's Desperate Plight...
Mister Phillips, Democratic Candidate for Dist. 1 Supervisor, Introduces Himself
Martinez Fights Redevelopment, High Density
Housing
Imperialism
Update: US/NATO to expand Afghan War into Horn of Africa, Indian Ocean
Never mind the facts.....let's
have a war!! 
Another Drought Year in California?
Is Weather Control in play...? A
Primer on Weather Control (under construction)
Al-CIA-Duh? BBC
Now Admits al-Qaeda Never existed
Obama???? His Secret Plans for your Future (recorded before 2008
election)
One Day Before Christmas Day - another unConstitutional "SPARE THE AIR DAY"
Obama, the
warmonger, declares war on Pakistan
How a better Middle East Would Look (according to US Globaloney)
EL SOBRANTE MUNICIPAL ADVISORY COUNTIL (ESMAC) AGENDA - 12/09/09 MEETING
- discussion on ESGPA TONIGHT!!
Public comment on El Sobrante General Plan Update will be taken at County Zoning
Administrator meeting - 1:30PM, Monday 12/14, McBrien Administration Bldg. Pine
& Escobar Sts., Rm. 107, Martinez - AGENDA
Link to Downtown El Sobrante General Plan Amendment (ESGPA) - public comment period closes 12/18/09
AlGore on Climate Gate: Refuses to Debate Skeptics, Has Goons Rough up Dissenters
KTVU Ch. 2 Story on 12/2/09 El Sobrante Special Meeting on Car Arsons
CLIMATEGATE: CROOKS
PLAN END RUN AROUND NAT'L. SOVEREIGNITY!!
SWINE
FLU: BAD SCIENCE & COVERUP
CLIMATE GATE: Retired
Climate Scientist Comments on Leaked Emails
US/Anglo/EU Plans to Fragment Russia
Hackers Expose "Global Warming"
Fraud
Dist. 1 Supervisor Candidate Cites Sup. Gioia's Conflict of Interest in Pt. Molate Casino Affair
Ft. Hood Massacre: Hasan - patsy in terror drill gone live???
Dutch Town Rejects "Carbon Storage" Under their Neighborhood
Beware PG&E's new (not so) "SMART METERS"
El Sobrante Unsettled by Spate of Arson Fires
Phony 'global warming' carbon credit derivative trading could cause another financial meltdown
911 Tape of Richmond HS Gang Rape
Draft EIR of Proposed El Sobrante General Plan Update & other related El Sobrante documents
Firestorm Danger in El Sobrante
Valley
The End of US Sovereignity as we know it.....say
it ain't so....
US Misinformation Campaign - H1N1 Update by Dr. Mercola - RESIST THE VACCINE!!
THESE SIGNS PROVIDE NO JOBS>>>>COST US TAXPAYERS $20M +
Has your community's authority been handed over to ICLEI??
How the US Government Deliberately Tanked our Economy
Why is the US Chamber of Commerce Defending the Big Banks?? (NOTE: the El Sobrante Chamber of Commerce sponsored the redevelopment plan)
CA Redevelopment Assn. Sues State for on behalf of local guvmints for ill gotten gains...
Homelessness Hits California HARD
FLU VACCINE EXPOSED: THINK
TWICE!!!!!!!!
West
Contra Costa School District Will Blow $36K of taxpayer money to "survey"
voters for 2010 bond or parcel tax
ESMAC subcommittee to push for local tax to fund 1 ($35/yr) or 2($70/yr) deputies for El Sobrante on Nov. 2010 ballot
Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany
Contra
Costa Sheriff Rupf in Hot Water for Neglecting to Pickup Kidnapper/Rapist
CDC
Pulling Out All the Stops to Enforce Dangerous 'Swine Flu' Vaccination!!
Makers of H1N1 Vaccination Refuse to Take Vaccination!!
Your Homeowner's Assn. Could Repossess your home under CA HOA Law - see this horrifying story
Role of El Sobrante Chamber of Commerce in "smart growth" redevelopment
The Cap & Trade Swindle - Bringing the World to It's Knees via Massive Wealth Redistribution
OBAMA:
A VERY SMOOTH LIER (AND TELEPROMPTER READER!)
Banks Can Steal Your Home, Even if you Own It!!
City of Richmond "Shot Spotter" goes livet
Physicians' Association Calls for Moratorium on GMO Food
Obama Changes into Dick Cheney
Weimar Inflation - Could It Happen Again???
Mind Control
- Articles, Video
What is the "Fed" - the nonFederal, nonReserve?? Secrets of the Fed
Congressman Ron Paul, MD on the Swine Flu Scare
SB787 - The Great Water Heist - Feds Move to Control ALL US Water!!
Hidden Costs of W. County School District parcel taxes
Obama Steps Closer to World Guvmint, Queen Hitlery with latest State Dept. Appointments
Government Thugs Tase, Beat Up, Arrest Baptist Pastor for.....nothing!!
LBAM DELAYED BUT WORLDWIDE SPRAYING CONTINUES UNABATED!!
Tax Day Tea Parties - Americans Fed up with Socialists in guvmint
The End of the US as we know it? Can you say "Fascism"?
G20 - A
New Financial World Order - end of the US as we know it!
Genetically Modified Food Bills
Flood Congress
Redevelopment Programs Shortchange Schools
The Hidden Dangers of Cell Phones
Senate
Rubberstamps National Service Bill
Wacky Gavin Newsom blames Prop. 13 for Budget Shortfall
March 17 County Budget Presentation 2009 by County Administrator David Twa
Gioia pushes for countywide public utility users tax at 3/17/09 BOS meeting!!
CA: Enough "Cowboy" Greenhouse Enforcement
Dump 'Smart Growth' (what County rezoning will look like)
Obama:
A Fraud You Can Believe In
NOTICE: Update on El Sobrante rezoning at Feb. 11 ESMAC meeting
**Patrick Roche of County Community Development stated redevelopment will NOT be used to implement the
General Plan (rezoning) of Dam Rd./Appian Way at above meeting
Video: History of America's Debt
CA Congressman Pete Stark Goes Nuts, threatens reporter!!
HOW DO YOU LIKE YOUR SKIES? NATURAL OR MANMADE??
Financial Times of London: The End of the California Dream
The Rise of Global Government - 5 pt. video to watch online
San Pablo Dam Rd. Repaving Update
Downtown
El Sobrante/Appian Way Redevelopment Plan - Dec. 2008 Update
CA
Redevelopment Debt tops $82.4 BILLION , Contra Costa
Co. Redev. Agcy. $412+M!!
California
faces $14.6 BILLION deficit - projected to reach $41.6 BILLION at end of '09
Arnold's plan to raid redevelopment funds
LBAM DELAYED BUT WORLDWIDE SPRAYING CONTINUES UNABATED!!
Ed
Data's 2007-2008 Teacher Salary info!!
Another
reason to avoid mass transit - you might get murdered!!
Open Letter to President Elect Obama
Dist.
1 Supervisor Gioia interview with Ross Magowan on County Budget Cuts
Obamanations - NEW! CURTAIN TIME FOR OBAMA!
Why the US Economy is Doomed to Failure
Ahnold signs ominous 'anti-sprawl', 'anti-greenhouse gas' SB375 - now planners have all the power!! NO on Prop 1A, Another Wealth Redis. Plan
Ahnold proposes raiding redevelopment tax revenue for...? LATEST & GREATEST
'Brilliantly' Smart Growth
- higher and higher densities!
BANKRUPT STATE COULD GO EVEN FURTHER IN DEBT WITH BONDS on ballot
Gold & Precious Metals Updates
Why Does California Struggle w/Budget Every Year????
>>>DAM ROAD REPAVING BETWEEN EL PORTAL & TRI LANE - PRESS RELEASE<<<
REASONS NOT TO RIDE MASS TRANSIT
911 & The "American Inquisition"
Earth Day or Earth Worship????????
Like
to see El Sobrante stay unincorporated? or become a separate city?
"There's gangsters. There's drug dealing," he said. "I can't even walk outside . . . because somebody is going to come up to you and ask for change." - see LA Times story of 'mixed use' redevelopment of downtown Fullerton, CA
LBAM SPRAYING CALLED OFF IN URBAN AREAS>>>
BUT>>>>GUVMINT SPRAYING CONTINUES NONSTOP ALL OVER THE WORLD!!!
"Private property and freedom are inseparable" - George Washington
FAST FACT: Less than 1% of developable land in the US is developed!!
Taking Liberty: How Private Property is being Abolished in America
Light Brown Apple Month (LBAM) spraying...it's worse than you thought...Listen to this interview
Think Globally - Act Locally - What is SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT??
Experts see Collapse of US Economy - but our corrupt guvmint keeps seizing private homes and
building 'affordable housing' AKA 'smart growth'!
Redevelopment: The Unknown Government download pdf
NOW ESMAC P&Z SUBCOMMITTEE WANTS TO REZONE ALL OF EL SOBRANTE!!
Another member wants to annex El Sobrante to Richmond!!
El
Sobrante MAC Proposed "Policies for El Sobrante Area"
Anti-eminent domain sign stirs up St. Louis!
The
Best-Laid Plans of Govt. Planners Usually Screw Up Your Life
El
Sobrante Redevelopment End Run - Rezoning via Genl. Plan change
The Anti-communitarian League fights the deceptive takeover of our communities!!
West
County property owners wake up, reject Measure G!!!
AGENDA 21: A GUIDE FOR PUBLIC OFFICIALS
Freedom21
Santa Cruz interview with Tom DeWeese of American Policy Center on the "World
Environment Conference in San
Francisco and Tony Blair's Sustainable Housing Plan
- How the elite want us to live in the future!!
The Joys of Living in Unincorporated Areas - W. County Times - 11/28/06
Redevelopment
horror stories: Manteca - San
Diego
Parade Magazine article on Eminent Domain - Aug. 6, 2006
Listen to El Sobrante MAC meetings!! Minutes
and agenda of El Sobrante MAC meetings!!
Official El Sobrante Municipal Advisory Council Website
JOKELAND: MAYOR DELLUMS-NO $$ BECAUSE OF REDEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS!!
Special
El Sobrante MAC meeting on General Plan (rezoning of Dam Rd. and Appian Way)
AUDIO and it's impact on
the community, Aug. 29, 7PM - download
flyer - tell a friend!!
See County map of parcels to be rezoned!!
Download agenda of Aug. 29, 2006 special ESMAC meeting here
NOTE: the country wants to recommend the placement of a "P1 Planned Unit
District" within the rezoning area: what is a P1 district? see
severe land use restrictions within such a district
Did you know that El Sobrante is within Richmond's "sphere of influence" ????
El Sobrante MAC/County wants building moratorium in Genl. Plan rezoning area to facilitate County rezoning!!
City of Brea devalues private land to 'save open space'
Smart
Growth Not That Smart - Times' 8/18/06
Another way (beside Eminent Domain) that your property can be taken
Another way to make you a property tax payer with little or no rights on your own property!!
Slideshow: How gov't. mandated land use planning drives up home prices
Washington,
DC: Redevelopment Hurts Poor
WHY SHOULD YOU BE CONCERNED ABOUT PROPERTY RIGHTS?
Bayview-Hunter's
Pt. residents pass petition to stop redevelopment in Nov. election!!
Evil SF gov't. rejects valid citizen's petition!!
Pot Club opens in El Sob!!Measuring the Success of Transit Oriented Development (TOD)
How Smart Growth Makes Housing
Unaffordable REPORT
Earth Day or Earth Worship??????????Oregon's
Supreme Court upholds Prop. 37 protection for private property 
County Budget Mess
Community Policing - What's the real story?? 
El Sobrante General Plan
(zoning) to be changed along San Pablo Dam Rd. "business corridor"
and Appian Way to make way for redevelopment and "smart growth" high
density "affordable" housing; (hastily written) NOTES
from 3/16/05 meeting with Patrick Roche of Contra
Costa Community Development Dept. on General Plan change
Did you
know that redevelopment plans can be incorporated into General Plans? This may
happen when the updated El Sobrante General Plan is submitted - see County
document given out at May 20, 2003 Project Area Committe (PAC) meeting
Sprawl GOOD -
dense urban development BAD!! ChicagoSunTimes Dec. 27,05 article
America:
A Land of Renters?? See latest article by
Henry Lamb RICHMOND
WATCH!! 
AHNOLD is a big 'smart growth' advocate!! See article
from 11/16 Sunday Times
E. BAY EXPRESS ARTICLE: JOHN GIOIA, WAL-MART,
SAFEWAY AND THE UNIONS
Del Norte Place AKA "pink palace" FOR SALE -
commentary from local citizen
LETTER from former El Sobrante resident recently graduated
in URBAN PLANNING!!
Project Area Meetings are cancelled indefinitely!!
Reports from past Project Area Committee ("PAC") meetings and
other public redevelopment meetings on the so-called Downtown/Appian Way El
Sobrante Redevelopment Plan
See Grand Jury investigation of County Redevelopment Agency!!
See report 
The
Redevelopment Agency can seize your property without your consent!
The redevelopment area runs roughly from El Portal to Appian Way along San Pablo Dam Road, and up Appian Way all the way to Valley View including the triangle. If you own property on these two strips, your property could be subject to seizure using the eminent domain powers of the Redevelopment Agency.
Redevelopment advocates will tell you that it will help the community, especially minorities, the elderly, and the poor. In fact, redevelopment hurts the most vulnerable members of our society. The only ones who benefit are development interests with little or no stake in El Sobrante.
A Study by the prestigious National Center for Public Policy Research concluded that "smart growth" and other redevelopment activities hurt the underclass at disproportionately high rates.
If the proposed type of redevelopment had been adopted nationally ten years ago:
1) 260,000 minority homeowners would not own their own homes today;
2) one million homeowners of all races would not own their own homes today;
3) the average home price would have increased by $10,000 in 2002 dollars;
4) the average cost of renting a home or apartment would have increased six percent.
The End of El Sobrante as we know it!
Are you ready for SuperStores and strip malls on San Pablo Dam Road and Appian Way? Read Redevelopment, the Unknown Government, an online book which describes and documents what redevelopment really is all about.
Can
Redevelopment be stopped? Yes, by concerned citizens like you and your neighbors.
Read Chapter 10 of "Redevelopment, the Unknown Government".
Come to the El Sobrante Municipal Advisory Council ("MAC") meetings held on the 2nd Wednesday of the month at 7AM behind the El Sobrante Library in the meeting room and the El Sobrante Planning and Zoning ("P&Z") meetings on the 2nd Thursday of each month at the same location.
LET YOUR NEIGHBORS know what is happening.
Call the Contra Costa Redevelopment Agency at 925-335-1275 and request copies of all information on the "Downtown El Sobrante Redevelopment project."
Call the Contra Costa Community Development Dept. at 925-335-1290 and request the info packet entitled "Downtown El Sobrante Transportation and Land Use Plan". This shows in detail the plans for the San Pablo Dan Rd. corridor including pathways into the neighborhood behind the Library from Dam Rd. and another major road above Taco Bell.
Redevelopment plans HAVE been stopped in communities where the citizens get involved, go to community meetings and let their public officials know they are against redevelopment.
The community of Oak Grove, Oregon (a suburb of the "smart growth"/redevelopment model city of Portland) managed to save their little community, one very similar to El Sobrante, by coming out in big numbers, carrying signs and letting their public officials they were AGAINST redevelopment.
OTHER REDEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AROUND THE COUNTY:
***Proposed EL CERRITO DEL NORTE 7/30/03 workshop in tiny room barely big enough to hold 20 people - PHOTOS here plus READ commentary from local activist
***Citizens of the City of Martinez are also fighting the proposed formation of a redevelopment agency there - click HERE to see their website. See 7/23/03 letter published in the W. County Times from Martinez City councilman, Tim Platt, urging a probe on Redevelopment!
The Pleasant
Hill BART station area is an example of "redevelopment" gone badly
awry!! Letter from irate
nearby resident and PHOTOS showing the induced
"blight" in the area
Dateline:
April 28, 2003 - There they go again! - the Contra Costa Redevelopment Agency
is entering another community (Montalvin Manor) and TAKING OVER!!. Link
Here
Redevelopment
is a problem in other areas, too...>>>
Press release on "bogus blight" finding from Castle Coalition's Institute for Justice in Norwood, OH
Cities across the country have been using eminent domain to force people off their land, so that private developers can build more expensive homes and offices that will pay more in property taxes than the buildings they're replacing...Transcript of 9/28/03 "60 Minutes" TV program on eminent domain abuse
Redevelopment Nightmare in American Canyon, Napa County, CA.
What happened with Redevelopment in Reno, Nevada is a sad and all too common example of redevelopment gone awry.
Redevelopment Horror Stories from across the nation and the heroic efforts of citizens to fight government abuses.
Website for San Jose
anti-redevelopment abuse group Randall O'Toole's The Thoreau Institute
Press coverage of Randal O'Toole's 9/10/03 talk on the "smart growth" assault on our property and automobiles
Regional Planning doesn't work
Stop Government Abuses of Eminent Domain
Castle Coalition: Citizens Fighting Eminent Domain Abuse
Threatened homeowners ask: What is blight?The answer depends on where you live and who wants to build there.
Redevelopment Abuse - articles and documents relating to redevelopment, documenting its successes, problems and consequences.
Redevelopment,
the Unknown Government, an
online book which describes and documents what redevelopment really is all about.
Redevelopment robs from the poor and gives to the rich, all in the name of "progress".
Redevelopment corrupts the democratic process - the community gets little effective voice in the redevelopment process, but guess who foots the bill?
Understanding Plannerspeak - Common buzz-words and phrases used by redevelopment advocates.
Why Metropolitan Planning Doesn't Work - Redevelopment advocates claim that redevelopment improves city life throughout an urban area. Portland, Oregon had quite a different experience.
Government
Theft, Top Ten Abuses of Eminent Domain 
The ten most egregious abuses of eminent domain for private purposes from 1998
to 2002. These horror stories show how government can seize private property
to hand over to development interests. Will El Sobrante make the next Hit Parade?
Cities Often Misapply Eminent-Domain Rule - A Wall Street Journal article on how property is taken from small businesses to give to larger competitors by local governments.
The Community Character Act - Of course, Congress is involved, and, as usual, guess who gets screwed (the little guy).
Study
Says Minorities and Poor Harmed by Anti-Sprawl Policies (Press Release)
- Who benefits from Redevelopment? Big development interests, not the community,
and certainly not the poor or minorities. Full Study available here
Smart Growth isn't all that smart, in fact it is better termed "Self-serving, hope the public is Stupid, Growth".
The San Mateo County Times in an Editorial objects to the strong-arm tactics of the local government in Redwood City, which is destroying small businesses to build a multiplex cinema. They are graciously allowing the former owners to rent space in the new complex (at more than double their current payments).
The Algore Mental Health Page
KFPA 'Guns & Butter' Interview with Webster Tarpley on Obama's Declaration
of War against Pakistan, drone attacks, et al
San Pablo Dam Upgrade Updates
Greatest Movie Line Ever...