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regional planning
boards bypassing local voter accountability.
    Consider the story of the city of Danville, California where this
town’s general plan was put together by an unelected Regional
Planning Commission. As introduced, the proposal will guide the
city’s development for the next 20 years. Danville has joined a regional
group known as the “Association of Bay Area Governments” and the
group’s bonding commitment is the implementation of the U.N.’s
“Agenda 21”.
    One Danville resident who studied the regional plan observed it
is full of “eco-babble”, the same eco-babble that has become familiar to all of us through the mainstream media. The planners address
the usual list of environmental issues like “sustainable action, environmental preservation and reducing greenhouse gases”. The regional
planners, determined that downtown Danville will become “a priority
development area”, designed a network of transportation corridors
that will enable the city to compete for federal, state and local funds
for road maintenance and improvements. In the downtown area, the
city also plans to set aside more than nine acres of prime real estate for
new high density and affordable housing located adjacent to public
transportation stops. This is an “Agenda 21” concept known as “pack
and stack”—high rise apartment living. Global environmentalists
believe it will be the future of urban housing.
    Like Danville, cities across America are adopting the same concept.
Regional planners are creating networks of transportation corridors
that embrace the U.N.’s “Agenda 21” sustainability goals, including
public transportation systems that will have not-too-frequent stops
at stations where low income, high rise housing (environmentally
engineered apartments) will be located. ICLEI’s goal for the current century is to popularize communities where cooperative “global
citizens” won’t demand private transportation and certainly won’t
demand an energy gobbling, 2300 square foot private home. Instead,
they will live happily in an 800 square foot apartment, stacked one
atop the other. The green citizens of the future will happily walk to
the nearest public transportation stop where they can catch a ride to
work or to shop. Better yet, they can bike to their destination on new
taxpayer-supported bike paths. A “Green Utopia” will have finally
come to our planet.
    With three quick steps on the internet, you can read about ICLEI
for yourself:
• First:EnterICLEI.orginyourbrowsertogettheirwebsite.
• Second:Lookforthetablabeled“Programs”andclickonit.
• Third:ScrolldownuntilyoufindAgenda21andvoila!
From sea to shining sea, citizens in western cities from Spokane,
Washington and Santa Rosa, California to east coast cities in states like
Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia, residents are getting informed
about the globalist intentions of the U.N.’s ICLEI program. They are
learning how these plans are being subversively implemented, bypassing their locally-elected officials.
ICLEI’s “Think globally—Act locally” slogan doesn’t make sense
to most Americans. Our nation’s long history of individual freedom
and representative democracy is at odds with the ICLEI concept of
elitist government policy from the top down. And in America’s current economic climate, tax dollars are in short supply. When local
citizens learn their local government is sending membership dues to
ICLEI, either through the U.N. headquarters in New York or the
ICLEI headquarters in Germany, citizens are outraged and demand
it be stopped.
As regional planners realized they were under attack, their national
umbrella organization, The American Planning Association (APA),
issued a list of “talking points” explaining their work in glowing terminology in an effort to help local planners defend themselves from
outraged citizens. “APA members help create communities of lasting