<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello Shannon et al,<div><br></div><div>This is clarification for the issue Huffman raised that I would like to have on the agenda: It is called <b>UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES</b>. </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Does the Community Rights approach open the door to other initiatives where communities can assert THEIR rights which may NOT be "GOOD" and may in fact be used to <b>dismantle</b> "GOOD" existing State and Federal Laws that now protect the environment, etc.? </span></div><div><br></div><div>Think: <b>3 Strikes Initiative</b> (funded by the prison industry) and<b> Prop 13 </b>(by Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Assoc. cutting taxes and leaving CA with (for one thing) one of the most underfunded school systems in the States)</div><div>These sounded "good" at the time (unless you really studied up) and yet they are really harmful.</div><div><br></div><div>I struck out the Public Trust Doctrine (below) that Huffman mentioned because you have apparently already found that it is not viable for us. </div><div><br></div><div>I probably can't make the call unless I can get out of a previous commitment. :-( arg. </div><div>Carrie will be my stand-in</div><div>Meg</div><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><ul><li><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">Single subject rule of our ordinance (or are folks now clear on this?)
</span></font></li><li><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt"><strike>Public Trust doctrine – why it doesn’t actually protect us (regulatory fallacy)
</strike></span></font></li><li><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">Traditional legal pushback (and why this isn’t a legal strategy, but an organizing framework)
</span></font></li><li><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">Community rights as supreme over fed and state does not mean “majority rule” </span></font></li></ul></div></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">ADD: Community Rights, possible unintended consequences?</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">
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