Santa Rosans boggle my mind

In response to a Tuesday decision to remove the limit on the number of stories a downtown building can have, the following appeared on pressdemo.com:

Wednesday, Jun 21, 2006 08:55A

Well, there goes the sky line…. up, up and away….. How sad…

Note that decision affected the arbitrary 10-story limit on downtown buldings, not the 150-foot total height limitation. I suspect that this is an artifact of not having actually read the article.

Wednesday, Jun 21, 2006 08:39A

Santa Rosa needs to stop trying to play catch up with other big cities! We dont need big high rises and more small housing units that promote overpopulation. We want to be the small, open, country-like place that we used to be!

This poor writer hasn’t noticed that the open, country-like places in the Santa Rosa valley have fallen prey to something far worse than dense population centers. It’s called sprawl. If we want to keep our open spaces, we’re going to have to provide ample opportunity for people to reduce their homes’ geographic footprint. City governments have never been able to resist the lure of increased tax bases. Should we give up our pug-ugly skyline, dominated as it is by the old Pacbell building, or plop million-dollar mc-mansions on the ridges of our hills?

I submit to you, gentle reader, that these people are on crack.

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