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I wish to offer comments on the Land Use Sector Target, and to urge
it NOT be increased to a higher level. The Planning and
Conservation League suggests the "land use" target should be raised
from 5 million metric tons of C02 equivalent (MMT) to 11-14 MMT.
They state "as shown by the analysis of Dr. Reid Ewing and Dr.
Arthur C. Nelson, the 5 MMT target is based upon models that are
widely acknowledged to underestimate the benefits of dense,
mixed-use development, while the higher target is achievable with
policies California is already considering". 

It is incredibly elitist to suggest no one but the rich in the
future need dream of a new home on its own newly platted lot.  The
rich will always be able to buy enough offset credits to build
their mansions in outlying areas on huge estates, but to posit
policies that deny everyone else the right to have a home on its
own lot in a new suburban area is elitist and racist.  I used to
work for the Watts Labor Community Action Committee, and its great
founder Ted Watkins.  He knew as well as anyone that
African-American families wanted and needed the reduced stress of
lower density neighborhoods than the inner city provided (not
HIGHER densities!), and it would racist now to deny that dream to
people who have passed their entire lives in poverty just trying to
save up enough for their kids to actually live that dream...Does
anyone really believe the folks in South Central would prefer a
future (mandated for them!) of a stacked flat in a 20 story
building near Skid Row over a nice home with its own yard in
Corona?