You’re asking a bureaucracy to stop growing? Yeah, good luck on that.

I’m thinking there are at least a couple of “economic development” ideas worth pursuing. My personal favorite is the overpass in Kuna over the railroad at Swan Falls Rd. The rail crossings are both blocked by idle trains for 4 hours each day. the area south of the railroad is designated for a whole lot of industry. That will never come when employees cannot get to and from work. Get it designed and built and Kuna will explode with new jobs and all the benefits that come from that. Instead of driving in to Boise, Kuna residents might then actually have a choice. To work, shop and recreate closer to where we live is the ideal way to reduce congestion on our roads.

Nice hat, Mike! Truly.

Amen

No doubt in my mind, we are headed for another Big Short. Just like last time, local folks will be taking out loans they can’t afford, out of state speculators will drive up home and rental prices as before then poof, lots of vacancies and foreclosures. This unbridled growth dream is not sustainable. Meantime, the taxpayers will be picking up the tab and dealing with the aftermath of poor City and County planning and rubber stamping. Vote them out and vote in those with backbone, foresight for the community and the ability to say no to destructive development.

“Why not stop encouraging people to come to Boise…?” Spot on Mr. Guardian, however that plan is already underway. The building of high density low income or subsidized housing will put large numbers of low income people on the city streets – people without the means to support the expensive eateries along 8th Street, and vicinity. Regulars will stop eating there, the eateries will close and Boise downtown will deteriorate.

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

So, the BIG PLAN seems to be to (1) Get more people to vote, or (2) Vote better people into office.

News flash! The people who are making fortunes from the growth are the same ones that own and control the TV and newspapers and the (fake) content they provide.

People vote for the “electable” candidate, anointed as such by the Main Stream Corporate Media. We are trapped in a cage where the Oligarchs (Rule by the Rich) are in control of what the citizens think is “news”, but is really just propaganda to enrich the wealthiest few among us.

The (fake) news endlessly tells us that voting is important, when it is really just a tool to legitimize a totally corrupt system.

The only solution is to tear down “the system” because it no longer serves the needs of the citizens. The politicians, corporate news media, bankers and the wealthy need to be eliminated from positions of control and influence.

Our lawbooks also need to be tossed in the trash because they are tools of control for the wealthy, and not in the interest of the many.

I recently passed, on my regular route to work in the Boise core, a home that had been for sale. 2 car garage, 3 car driveway. It now has cars with California and Idaho plates, and there are usually three cars in the driveway and one car in the front yard.

What is wrong with this picture? Are extended families all trying to act grown up and independent by having cars at the parent’s house? Or, is it a many person rental now, therefore cash flowing? What is wrong with these property owners’ actions? How can the community make this overcrowded set up wrong with some kind of disincentive? How can the community address the disorder regarding vehicles in the existing neighborhoods to avoid concerned and salt of the earth people moving to neighborhoods with covenants and regulations? They need enforcement or they can’t. Apparently enforcement isn’t happening, so then what?

And, for the record, our roads are not California roads. California’s are generally much better, but during the rush hours to and from work, they are crowded. Better engineered, better marked, and better driven by smarter and educated drivers. There is a strategy to driving, and it is sort of dictated by the road logic, which could be lacking by throwing down pavement around here.

Blah, blah.

It is not that hard to predict that a truck will hit a bridge. All it takes is a truck.

This is Agenda 21 on course. Load up cities with as many people as possible. I get why people want to leave Commifornia and escape to refuges like Idaho, but we WILL become another Cali if this continues. Communities are just like porridge, it can be too hot, too cold and just right. We want to be just right. At some point we need to tighten the doorway. I think we’re there now. Fifteen years ago, I was singing the Smart Growth hymnbook. Never again! This stuff is dangerous. I don’t want to lose what is best about what we have. We have plenty of other issues to work on. Being too small is not one of them.