Comments on: Developer eyes vacant land near Petaluma rail depot http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/2013/01/cities/developer-eyes-vacant-land-near-petaluma-rail-depot/ Your Sonoma County Politics Site Sat, 25 May 2013 19:14:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: James Bennett http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/2013/01/cities/developer-eyes-vacant-land-near-petaluma-rail-depot/#comment-1202673 James Bennett Sat, 26 Jan 2013 22:04:47 +0000 http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/?p=25080#comment-1202673 Translation: More Smart Growth.

You want to build your American Dream: $60.K + before you do anything.

If you’re a developer (in the fold) and you want to build Smart Growth, that’s different.

The tax payers subsidize that.

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]]> By: Elephant http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/2013/01/cities/developer-eyes-vacant-land-near-petaluma-rail-depot/#comment-1198105 Elephant Sat, 26 Jan 2013 03:50:02 +0000 http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/?p=25080#comment-1198105 It appears that DUMB didn’t want to buy land for parking for their train. Brilliant. And Mike Healey, who has an engineering background, says ” the project may need to be four or five stories”. Let’s see. We have adobe soil, located 100 feet from the Petaluma River and the water table is three feet below the surface of the ground… even more brilliant.

Development on this site is simply not needed. There will be plenty of vacant storefronts in downtown once those two new shopping centers are up and stumbling.

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]]> By: Andrew http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/2013/01/cities/developer-eyes-vacant-land-near-petaluma-rail-depot/#comment-1197700 Andrew Sat, 26 Jan 2013 02:48:50 +0000 http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/?p=25080#comment-1197700 Just what Petaluma needs, more businesses in this area to cause more traffic congestion. When will the city planners and the pathetic planning commissioners realize that more roads across town need to be constructed FIRST?!

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