Oppose city planners micro-managing housing patterns? You are a racist. Oppose anything the Uptown crowd and the Foundation for the Carolinas define as good, right, and proper? You are a racist.
That’s the subtext of the sprawling, guilt-tripping Crossroads Charlotte propaganda campaign that gets its own section in today’s Uptown paper of record, plus online multimedia treatment.
You can wade through the whole thing if you want, but I thought that this snippet from the “Fortress Charlotte” vision — that’s the bad one, the one where the suburbs win –pretty much captures the tilt and petty sophistry:
In the outlying areas, sprawl continues. Residents’ fear of “undesirables” moving into their part of town has spawned increased resistance to higher-density, mixed-use and mixed-income development that would otherwise support transit and provide greater access to jobs, shopping and services for everyone. The limited housing and lifestyle choices in the suburbs have further segregated the community by economic and social class.
Wonder if all those folks in Dilworth worried about transit oriented development — that’s 20 residential units per acre, among other things — like being called racist?
No, of course not — that in a nutshell is the target audience of this shameful campaign.
