For
25 years, George Lucas tried to develop a portion of his 6,100-acre property
in the posh hills of Marin into an expansion site for his movie production
company. But his neighbors, fearing traffic and disruption to their neighborhood,
blocked the plan.
Now, in a move worthy of a Star Wars saga, the famous filmmaker struck back with an audacious plan:
Norimitsu Onishi of The New York Times reports: Link (Photo: Wikipedia)... after spending years and millions of dollars, Mr. Lucas abruptly canceled plans recently for the third, and most likely last, major expansion, citing community opposition. An emotional statement posted online said Lucasfilm would build instead in a place “that sees us as a creative asset, not as an evil empire.”
If the announcement took Marin by surprise, it was nothing compared with what came next. Mr. Lucas said he would sell the land to a developer to bring “low income housing” here.
Number1Guy--I'm surprised a shut-in like yourself feels qualified to comment on the world outside your feculent apartment. The majority? Please.
See how it's done, assholes?
Think of the children before you post, or take them to see any Lucas movie.
Kids, this area is unsafe.
Please, think of the children.
The lowest single family zoning requires a minimum of 2 acre lot. Mobile home parks are allowed but the regulations are so strict that unless you have one grandfathered in it isn't going to happen. Multifamily requires minimum of 2500 sq ft building per dwelling unit. Thats a nice sized house.
So in other words there isn't going to be what most of us consider low income housing going on this property. Now the people that live in the area probably consider anything under a house that sells for couple of million $ low income but i don't.
@number1guy - No, I don't know. Please, tell me who constitutes this majority of leeches within the welfare receiving population.
These people spend all their money(hard earned or not) so they can live out in the Californian country, then this jerk comes along and tries to build a gaudy movie studio in their back yards to pollute the world with more of his awful movies. Then when they disagree he becomes as small as he actually is and decided to use these poor poor-people to settle a grudge against his neighbors.
Seriously what good could possibly be in it for the poor. Not like there is a huge economy around the Lucas ranch where they will be able to find work.
And, just in case you are wondering, Number1, I do not use welfare.