[Durham INC] Fw: [durhamenviro] should land be a commodity? 3/4

[Melissa Rooney]

FYI -- don't know if I can make this meeting, but it sure would be good to have a good turnout to discuss this important issue...

Melissa (Rooney)

--- On Sun, 2/15/09, Michael Pollock <michael_pollock at yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Michael Pollock <michael_pollock at yahoo.com>
Subject: [durhamenviro] should land be a commodity? 3/4
To: durhamenviro at yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, February 15, 2009, 1:51 PM











    
            

This discussion about the political economy of land use in the Triangle might be of interest.



Last fall Durham County accepted a private survey of Jordan Lake's critical watershed, funded by interests that benefit from the survey and want to build a large mixed-use development on 751 very close to the Lake.  Last week the State Division of Water Quality allowed this decision to stand, but the County Commissioners still have to vote for it once more later this spring.  This is also a water quality issue, and the Lake is a drinking water source for much of the Triangle.  For more details, see this week's Independent Weekly and online articles at www.indyweek. com.  There are many other examples from throughout the Triangle.  



How do land use problems like development of an environmentally sensitive area relate to the capitalist view of land as a commodity (something created to be sold), rather than as a place that has intrinsic human and natural uses?  What interests dominate planning in the Triangle and how, and why do they so often push bad proposals?      



This meeting of the non-partisan Triangle Socialist Forum will be Wednesday, March 4th, at 7pm at the Peoples Channel (300 AC South Elliot Road, near Whole Foods).  



Michael Pollock




 

      

    
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