Re: The Price of Power...

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From: Silas Warner
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 02:24

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John Higdon wrote:
> 
> > Maria Larkin, president of the Downey Assn. of Realtors, said her
> > organization fears the plant could endanger the health of Downey
> > residents and reduce the value of their property.
> > "I know California is in an energy crunch now, but they need to
> > get a better location," Larkin said.
> 
> If I had a nickel for every occurrence of the utterance of this old saw, I
> would have my new backup generator paid for. "Just build it somewhere else.
> We're too [important | scenic | environmentally-conscious | afraid |
> aesthetically-minded | influential] to have a plant built here."
> 
You left out something in that rant:
"It will reduce our property values."

As I said earlier, that's code for "It will change something, and
I'm scared of any changes at all."  For those of you who don't
know, Downey is on the border between LA County and Orange County.
The town council is composed (or was composed, when I was there)
of real estate agents, including Maria Larkin.  They're extraordinarily
scared of change, because on one side of them is nice genteel suburbs
like Garden Grove and Westminster, and on the other side is 
<gasp>WATTS!<oh, the horror...>.  

The last time they hit this attitude was when Orange County proposed
to run an extension of the Green Line down to Disneyland.  Disney was
pumping money into the proposal, and won over every town in its path
until it came to Downey.  Downey stopped the idea cold.

						Silas Warner

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