RE: [ihc] About those parking brakes .....

["Peter Shubin" <pshubin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A Transit Planner!  I'm a Land Use Planner by education but after working
for a small City in Southern California and finishing my second planning
degree I was tired with of the complete lack of logic in the field and have
no intention of ever being a planner with a capital P again.  In fact I went
back to the private sector while still in grad school.  Many of my
professors would ask what I was doing still pursuing my degree with my
voiced thoughts towards planning and regulation and I would respond with the
question, Why did Patton read Rommel's book?

I'm a consultant for developers of various sorts now and run into a few of
my old compadres every year on a projects.  They ask about the Scout, if I
still have it, and why I still have it.  The best part about the Planning
education is knowing how to defeat or at least delay any action local
government takes when I feel like it.  With two Scouts in the drive way now
all I'm doing is waiting for knock on the door.

Pete


-----Original Message-----
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:45:43 -0700
From: Tom Harais <THarais@domain.elided>
Subject: RE: [ihc] About those parking brakes .....

As a Transit planner, I deal with these folks almost every day; urban
planners, transportation planners, local & state politicians.  Throw in a
few elite scholars from UC Berkeley and you get a real sense who is steering
our lives.  All I can say is scary, really scary.  They all think they have
the ultimate solution to our "problems" and they also have, or have access
to, the power to set laws and enforce them to make us all comply with their
utopian designs.  The public is either apathetic or supportive.  After all,
who would support "urban sprawl" or "congestion" or "pollution".  To oppose
these illustrious thinkers/planners/regulators is to support these