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August 9, 2008
Seattle Moonbats May Impose Narrower Streets and Houses on Columns
Posted by Dave Blount at August 9, 2008 10:45 AM
We fought off fascism when they tried to impose it with jackbooted armies. But it's harder to defend against moonbatty bureaucrats, such as those on Seattle's Pollution Control Hearings Board, which has decreed that rain falling on San Francisco North should not be allowed to drain into rivers and streams.
The hearings board ordered [Washington State Department of] Ecology to require the biggest cities and counties in Western Washington, including Seattle, Tacoma, and King, Pierce and Snohomish counties, to mandate much wider use of methods that get rainwater to soak into the ground.
Today, most development uses systems of pipes and ponds that eventually drain into rivers and streams, washing pollution such as oil and toxic metals along with them.
Environmentalists argued the new methods, which include narrower streets, gardens designed to soak up rain, and homes built on columns that leave topsoil undisturbed, are well-tested and usually reduce environmental damage.
Via Ace of Spades HQ, an artist's depiction of tomorrow's Seattle:
Hopefully bureaucrats haven't been watching the Flintstones too, or we may see new regulations mandating foot-powered vehicles and garbage disposals that consist of an animal living under the sink.
On a tip from V the K.
