Councilman Zine, "Where is the water ??"
What if we build a city and forgot about the water ? Well today, the question that Councilman Dennis Zine is asking, is where is the water for a "denser" Los Angeles.
In the rush to "DENSIFY" the "City of Angels". Dennis Zine is alone among the "Council of Fifteen" in asking some common sense questions.
While his fellow council members deposit checks from the developers. Are they overlooking issues of "capacity" pertaining to water, transportation, highways, and open space ? Also one needs to remember the the recent court case protecting the "Delta Dart Fish" will effect water coming from the Sacramento River Delta.
Kudos again to the Daily News and Councilman Zine for stating what should be obvious.
Posted by Red Spot in CD 14 @ 9/18/2007 07:54:00 AM
16 Comments:
Kudos to councilman Zine for using common sense. If we don't have enough water for current development, we shouldn't be building more. We could use more mandatory water conservation regulations beyond just low flow toilets and shower heads. We should probably control the amount of water people use on landscaping, pools...non mandatory water usage. I'd be willing to do my part,
Hey I go to lincoln park every day to walk and I see all the broken sprinkler heads,that water is just wasting down the gutter, and the grass always stays dead.Why don"t they fix them? They should vist every city park in LA and see this!
Again city employees not doing there job,just wasting tax payers money,HEY THAT IS A GOOD JOB YOUR DOING THERE MR. MIDGET MAYOR
You mean, kudos to the Dennis Zine whose district has several of the biggest developments in the city?
Besides the new Westfield megamall, just three years ago he approved a 2,500 condo development on the last big open space in his district, and it's being built as we speak?
The Dennis Zine who is doing all this in the West Valley, where the heat allows residents to use up twice the amount of water per capita as on the other side of the hill?
You mean the Dennis Zine who, in the Times article on CM water usage, and elsewhere, was scolded for his water-inefficient lawn, because "A councilman has to set a good example."
Of wasting water, instead of planting water-thrifty gardens in a draught in basically the desert?
Hilarious how easy it is to fool most of the people most of the time as soon as a loud CM or "leader" opens his mouth.
First, Zev who banned the subway for over 20 years while approving the first big developments, was going to "lead the people's revolution" against what he started.
Now, Zine.
God forbid that we should have "toilet to tap"!
Yes, Zine lives in the hottest place in the City. there is new development there. Of course this would concern him. I do agree that he should set an example and put in drought resistant landscaping.
WestchesterParents has plenty to say about this at http://westchesterparents.org/?cat=3
Peoples usage of water is for the most part not the problem. People should be allowed to live comfortably. With 600,000 acre-feet of water, a city of 3 million people should be able to live quite comfortably. Today with 4 million people we've exceed supplies so that now we have to begin conserving.
NO AMOUNT OF CONSERVATION is going to provide us with enough water to meet the states predictions of 30 millon Southern Californians. We would have to come up with another 2.5 million acre-feet of water and that is not goinig to happen. Creating more water storage isn't going to help unless we have surplus supplies to fill them. There is no surplus to do that.
So as long as Villaraigosa, Reyes, Garcetti, Perry and others insist on building more and more housing units, we are in for a very spectacular train wreck.
There is nothing smart about 'smart growth'.
3:34 - I agree, to a point. My slant is the whole City government at the present time is a train wreck.
With more and more people moving to So Cal, and predictions abounding about long term decreases in water available for storage, why has there been no discussion about tapping the Pacific Ocean through Desalinaiton plants? While it might be inefficient today, long range, it offers unlimited water to our city and region.
Smiley,
Prudent point.
Back in the drought years of the 1980's, the City of Santa Barbara spent millions of dollars on a plant, since mothballed. Must of their water came from the Santa Ynes River Watershed.
There should be an emergency declared by the Gov. and a moritorium on new high density housing projects.
Anybody in the mood for some rain? There's supposed to be some Thursday night into Friday morning.
Hey City Council and Villar! It's time to build some temporary cisterns to catch that rainfall, so you can build your high-rise apartments and supply them with the water from the cisterns you built just before the storm comes in Thursday night!
Most of the corporate media would have you believe residential use is consuming most of the water in this state, so you hear about low-flow toilets, not watering your lawn, etc., which is all well and good. Agriculture consumes 80% of the water in California, growing water-thirsty crops like rice and cotton and soon corn for ethanol, and non-ag business uses another 10%. Ordinary people (including city councilmembers)use only 10%. If farmers only became 10% more efficient, it would save almost as much as the entire amount of residential use. Bet you won't hear about farmers using drip irrigation or other efficiencies, because their water is so cheap.
Hey why is CM Zine the only one fighting for this common sense issue???? Wasn't CM Huizar (really Joe Avila) fighting for the owens valley project, and our water source? Lets get some real mean in the LA Shitty Council!!! Lets not let those white rich men influence our policies boys!!!
There shall be no development of ANY kind when we don't have enough water.
When the mayor tells us to conserve, tell him to stop over development. I won't conserve a drop. Every time a bad new project gets approved, my shower time increases, I do dishes, wash clothes and water my lawn in the middle of the day.
My own little personal protest.
Hey look outside everyone. We got water.
Post a Comment
Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]
<< Home