. . . is gov, sweet gov
It’s the only thing
That there’s just
Too little of
Now, Edneyville needs a community-wide plan. At the web site recruiting volunteer planners for the new board, one can access the arguments supporting government planning. Particularly interesting is the link to information about the “proven planning process†and the history of the community plan.
Now, contrast this to the paper the JLF keeps thumping showing how government planning is driving up the costs of planning in Asheville; or, better, Randal O’Toole’s 416-page book on the failure of government planning.
I happen to know a couple landscape architects who worked for a firm with a fantastic worldwide reputation. They created plans that would incorporate a wealth of knowledge about environmentally-sensitive development into a new neighborhood. They could have tossed out their college education and built a standard design without going before city council, but they wanted to do something special. In return, the green Asheville City Council regulated their plans, which had passed a technical review, to the point that the developer could no longer afford to build the homes they had envisioned. They ended up having to sell “envelopes†for their progressive design. Both architects recently applied to serve on a municipal board to advise policy makers about intelligent landscape planning, but not a single member of council was interested in interviewing either.
