You don’t get to vote for Planning Commission members, but you do get to vote for the people that appoint them.

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I may have an MBA and run a small business for decades with hundreds of employees but in college I really appreciated being hired in a difficult economy back then as a part time bagboy at a grocery store.

It wasn’t rocket science but it was an invaluable experience and my first “step” in becoming a productive participant in the economy.

I had no desire to become a full time employee at Grand Union, but those that did were able to move up the ladder to responsible positions that paid fairly well and offered full benefits.

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I am amused by the craven gullibility of some of the Tea Party posters who endorse their own subjugation to the corporate agenda by stating that “any job is a good job” even if you still have to rely on food stamps and rent subsidies in order to amke on their sub-standard wages and non-existent benefits. This deliberate strategy of “Wal-Marting” the American work force by driving down the wage floor to Second World levels so that more money can be sluiced into the swollen bank accounts of the 1%. That’s why we’re in recession. It’s not because school teachers are getting paid too much money.

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Hey kids !!!! The ‘progressives want you to have NO job, yet alone a part-time one that you wished for !

I wouldn’t mind taking on a part-time position. Got a job ?

Oops, the City Council and Planning Commission says NO to JOBS !

How sick is that ?

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Who can blame them? Obamacare is the biggest job killer Obama has thought up in his first term.

Santa Rosa should be grateful Target is even considering opening a store in town and the “living wage” people don’t have to work there if they don’t like the pay.

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So it is legitimate for the PC to consider whether these jobs are McJobs or family wage jobs. Target’s rep admits he misled the PC on that issue.

Then there’s the problem of legislative record. If the PC decides an issue on facts that were known, or should have been known, to be wrong, it leaves the decision wide open to court challenge. Hey, let’s make jobs for lawyers!

The PC’s choice to revisit the decision is likely due to the need to bullet-proof it against future legal challenges.

That’s the conservative option.

Hey, I support the project!

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As you confident that California’s law doesn’t, at minimum, have enough ambiguity in it to allow this sort of thing?

I served on a planning committee in Oregon. Land use planning was originally justified, in part, to give all applicants a level playing field. Meet the zoning criteria and one’s project would be approved. Over the years, however, once clear guidelines became ambiguous, and local pols now have wiggle room to do practically anything.

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We have gotten to this because the morals of the govt has been going down hill for decades and decades. I remember the newsreels of men rushing to the enlistment office after Pearl Harbor. Very few ran to them after 9/11 and few joined during Vietnam when compared to WW2.

Many of our Congressman were veterans in the 1950s 60s, but no longer. There are fewer veterans in our govt.

The point is the people just can trust govt, federal, state, or local. I would trust Target more than I would those in govt!

Sorry but govt had done little to earn the trust of the people.

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