A note came in from Rick Cole, the City Manager of Ventura – a small coastal community northwest of Los Angeles – who writes his own blog and has an item on, gasp, scrapping the grass lawn.
Rick is a brilliant and articulate proponent of smart growth, but these days his job is less to manage growth than to cope with the consequences of the massive deficits that have hit state and local governments across the U.S. Even in a relatively affluent city like Ventura, the proposed cuts are going deep. Like fire stations.
So if anyone thinks things are tough in Vancouver, where our controversies are about conservatories, check out what’s happening in the heart of the American Dream.
I wonder if there is some way a person can argue that the deep public expenditure cuts in California are a result of the extensive freeway system in that state?