Community Development

Dunwoody Master Plan

You will find Community Development on the City of Dunwoody website. Implementation of the approved Land Use Plan is included under Community Development. As you read the Land Use Master Plan you will notice references to “community input” contributing to develop the “vision” of what Dunwoody ought to become. This process was conducted by consultants trained in the Delphi technique, designed to “guide” the outcome of the exercise. The outcomes are consistent with the current, expensive, cookie cutter “vision” of the Obama administration and UN Agenda 21. The vision the Land Use Plan was based on is a sham, but approved just the same..

U.N. Agenda 21

The goal of UN Agenda 21 is to collapse our country in debt, take the U.S. dollar to zero; then create a U.N. dollar and take over the U.S. under UN rule. This would be a global communist government. There would eventually be no private property and those who survive the de-population events would be herded into transit villages in crowded rented apartments (think Soviet gulag). Government regulations will drive the price of energy and automobiles so high that few will be able to afford cars or live in single family houses. All will be moved to 750 square foot apartments in PCID.
Obama promised “fundamental transformation” After he crashes the dollar and bankrupts the country, he will hand it over to the U.N.

Now we live in an almost free economy, soon we won’t. Many of us own cars and homes in subdivisions with yards, soon we won’t. We can currently pay our food and water bills along with our electric and gas bills, soon we won’t.

These Land Use Master Plans are being implemented by City Councils and County Commissions all across the country. They are identical, because they are pre-packaged by ICLEI, the U.N. agency tasked with implementing U.N. Agenda 21 at the city and county level. All consultants hired by cities and counties will draw up these plans. Up to now, all cities and counties have rubber-stamped them approved.

Before Land Use Master Plans, In our traditional free market system, shopping centers were planned to serve local residents. The new Land Use Plans usurp private property rights and impose a fairy-tale version of what a shopping center should be.

Recent Dunwoody history shows how a free market system worked. Publics moved in to the Shoppes of Dunwoody several years ago, demolished the existing grocery store building and build a larger building in compliance with their own corporate model. There was no Land Use Master Plan at the time to conform to. Now we have one, so how would Publics deal with the new plan ? About the same time, Walgreens moved in to Dunwoody Village, tore down the old building and built a new one according to their corporate model. If the Dunwoody Village Master Plan was implemented and the buildings built, who would the tenants be ?

If you look at the drawings of the Dunwoody Village Master Plan, you will see apartments over retail stores and none big enough for a grocery store or drug store. If all these stores are sized to be nick-nack shops, they won’t make it.

Tax Authorizing Districts

The City of Davidson N.C. got a bunch of grant money and built one of these mixed use developments 5 years ago. It still sits empty today because the rents are too high. No apartments or stores are rented except an ice cream shop.

Several developments have been built over the last decade, by cities creating tax authorizing districts (TADs), using federal grants and selling bonds based on the appraised value of the property vs. the hoped-for value of the property. The incentive for cities to do this is to generate more revenue for the city, by creating more expensive retail space they can tax at a higher value. Many of these developments missed the mark and sit empty. The developer is gone and the taxpayers of the city are left holding the bag.

All Plans are Identical

All city and county Master Plans throughout the U.S. are the same. They are multi-modal plans built around transit villages. They are the same because the agency giving the city or county the grant to develop the plans requires that they all comply with the granting agencies specifications. These plans are implemented by consultants trained in U.N. Agenda 21 implementation. These plans are all implemented the same way. The city or county appoints a Sustainability Commission. Consultants come in and organize “citizen input groups, using methods that are designed to get the answers the consultants want. This is called the Delphi Technique. The Master Plan controls everything, even privately owned shopping centers.

While this is going on, the EPA, OSHA, and the Departments if Transportation, Commerce and Interior are seizing rural land for “wildlife preserves”, state and national parks and buffer zones. Their goal is to restrict water in farming areas and force farmers from their land. If they can’t have water to irrigate their crops, they will quietly go broke and sell their land to the government or a “private partner” (think Soylent Green).

Living in the USSA

U.N. Agenda 21 calls for the government to take over all food production and control all water use. Cap & Trade schemes will raise energy rates five fold. Their goal is to make single family housing so expensive, we all move to government subsidized apartments in transit villages. Also cars will be unaffordable after this scheme drives gasoline prices up five fold and café’ standards make the average car cost $50,000. It also calls for us to transfer most of our resources to third world countries. The U.N. is made up of mostly third world countries.

Replace Elected Officials

If we don’t think this is a good deal, we can stop it. All we need to do is to fire Obama and elect all new city councils, county commissions and state legislatures in November 2012, based on how they voted. Then we need the new guys to disapprove their Land Use Master Plans. We also need to repeal the laws authorizing U.N Agenda 21, Regional Commissions, Tax Authorizing Districts and Public / Private Partnerships. We need to disband commissions and unelected groups. We need close most federal departments and agencies and send these responsibilities to the states. We need to quit the U.N and send it to Somalia. Federal grants should stop, they’re broke and should stop giving away printed money.

Dunwoody Village Plan

The approved plan to re-do Dunwoody Village Parkway is typical of the price increases associated with taking grants. This less than a half mile 4 lane road re-do will cost $2.4 million. That’s $5 million a mile to turn it into a 2 lane road. What’s the rest of the re-do going to cost ? It’s not a good time to overpay for road re-do on underutilized shopping center road.. Milling and resurfacing a road should cost $100 thousand per mile, not $5 million a mile. How about a re-do of the Chamblee Dunwoody Road / Mt. Vernon intersection first ? There are two plans afoot here. One is to break us with government overspending, taxes, a devaluing dollar and unemployment and the other is to link us with the transit village. (think multi-modal).

Economic Outlook

We have new bubbles to burst in our economy, the government debt bubble and the dollar crash are the most dangerous. The continuing dollar devaluation will bring a substantial increase in inflation from the Federal Reserve’s printing press. The toxic assets created in the 2008 Meltdown now belong to Fannie, Freddie, The Federal Reserve and the big banks; they are not going away, they are getting worse. Sallie Mae holds $1 trillion in student loan debt (think blood and turnip). U.S. consumer debt is $2.43 trillion. Government, Education and Healthcare costs are double what they should be for these industries to remain “sustainable”. The fundamentals suggest higher unemployment ahead.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader