You also may forget the 80’s when interest rates were pushing 20% and our economy was stagnant. You want new jobs with higher wages, but no growth. You want more parks and recreation areas, but no growth. You want community colleges and better police, fire, and health coverage, but no growth. You may also want better schools, roads, and oh yeah lower taxes, but no growth. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but guess what? In order to get these things we need, yep that terrible word, GROWTH!

Here in Idaho you can add stupid too. Somewhere I saw a sign that said “Stupid kills”.

Growthaholics are wetting themselves with glee but scared witless that they may not be able to maintain the insane, self-immolating, pace of this growth. At our expense we have allowed them to turn our economy into a house of cards built on a spit of sand in the windblown flood plane.

Because we are so far down the commode on our way to becoming northern California, the Mud Lake solution would probably be frowned upon. . . Since the “growth” has propagated far beyond simple surgery, I suggest the following much needed radiation and chemotherapy to improve Idaho’s prognosis and perhaps foment remission,
Support/Force immigration law enforcement to remove and prevent more Illegal Aliens–Prosecute everyone who hires illegals–Raise the prime interest rate even more–Shop selectively and support real Idahoan’s endeavors– Abolish our tax funded pimp agencies–Elect responsible candidates who want to conserve what we have left– Force elected officials and their appointed commissions to conduct their bribery and collusion with developers and industry in public venues– Stop ALL subsidies and tax breaks for new business and developments–Establish realistic impact fees for ALL new construction—Tax business, utilities, and manufacturing endeavors at the same rate as residential property owners–Enact and Enforce California style environmental laws for livestock and manufacturing entities.

I remember the taillights of thousands of U-haul trailers headed south and west during the remission of the seventies. What a beautiful sight!

It worked, they (the folks from out side of Idaho) have been doing so as fast as they can.
Where is the state I was born in, where is my Idaho?

The only way we can hold the goverments accountable for planning decision would be to pass Prop 2 allowing property owners to seek recourse for poor planning decisions. This could be very dangerous and costly for taxpayers as a whole.

What a wicked web we weave.

The Council will use it like they use the Comp plan – as holy writ. Yet neither have the authority of law.

Just more ways to justify already set agendas.

All this smoke screen about “Blueprint for Samrt Growth” is quite entertaining. Some folks have become mesmerized by these antics while the hand(s) we should be watching are adeptly fleecing our checkbooks.

Guardian: Where did you come up with the old pictures with blue sky in the back ground? They must be ancient because, WHEN we CAN see that far, we view the brown SMOG over Eagle and Star every day .

Of course, I’m a newcomer to this area — only been here about 40 years, but in that 40 years I’ve seen and heard about more damned “comprhensive plans, “smart-growth” (now there’s an oxymoron for you from the morons) plans, etc., than Curtis Road has wrecks, and every one of them fizzled. Of course, that’s why they keep making new ones, cuz the old ones disintegrated. And yet they keep telling us the new one would work.

And, as MudRat and Edward Abbey observed …
Yep, the fastest-growing thing in the human (or other animal) body is cancer — and we all know about its effects.

The fastest-growing thing outside said bodies is government at all levels. And the difference is difficult to discern.