New construction is supposed to have a soils geologist tell what must be done. Engineered fills are generally safe. The problem is California hills are not there because they are strong, they are dirt piles pushed up because of seismic forces. That is why so many hills in California have landslide problems. So that “hill” may be a potential focus of some future uplift. So did they really know what they had? An interesting view for someone driving south of San Jose, near where the San Andreas crosses 101, is a solitary hill that looks magnificent. Until you look closely, and see it is full of landslides, a sandpile being pushed up, at the brink of failure. Sign of the strength of the forces moving Los Angeles toward San Francisco. The song from “Sound of music” can be sung of California. “The hills are alive.”

That given, I would like to see the development’s EIR. It should have indicated expected seismic forces as part of the EIR, and required mitigation measures for the development. Said mitigations should have been included in the long conditions of approval from whatever jurisdiction approved the development. Planning and building departments were supposed to make sure they were done.

Any development within a mile or two of Interstate 680 is subject to severe shaking. The valley 680 runs in was produced by the earthquake fault. It makes an easy smooth path. Easy to develop. Until the crash of an 6.5 to 6.9 earthquake. It will be interesting to see how long it takes them to repair the 580 & 680 interchange when it falls. But it is too big to fail.

Urban planning is interesting. The more I understand it, the more i realize it is the most insidious example of the liberal mind set. Most people do not realize a major amount of the increase in housing prices in California and other Liberal states, result from government intervention.

You try to control what you don’t understand, and wonder why you have problems.

The “mast-head” of the site is a highly inspiring photo of the 9-12 gathering in D.C. which gives a sense of the scale of that event better than any other image or comment I’ve found.

Today’s entry goes into a lot of detail about Obama’s participation in the imminent United Nations conference on climate change scheduled for December 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Lord Monckton, much-abused scientist debunker of AGW fakery, expresses deep concern that the treaty sets up the mechanisms of a de-facto world government, and the nations all seem eager to bow down and yield up their sovereignty.

Our Magnificent Nobel Lariat is expected to be chief among the genuflecting turds signing away our rights as citizens to the pervert lying murdering pimps that run the United Nations.

Let us all exercise our Constitutional Rights to the maximum extent possible while they still exist, so that those who would sell us for a bag of shekels might give a moment’s pause.

October 2004: Congressman Barney Frank [D-MA] speaks as a witness to the Senate Judiciary Committee about his belief that the people of the United States should be able to elect a president of their choosing, even if that candidate is not a natural-born citizen.

In these comments, Frank all but names Obama and describes our current situation to the letter. Here is the audio clip of his remarks.

BARNEY FRANK – “I believe in the right of the voters to choose as they wish”

This 2004 article in the Kenyan East African Standard begins

Sunday, June 27, 2004

Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate

Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations.

Obama Holds Fundraiser in San Francisco– Massive Tea Party Breaks Out

Painting the White House Red — Obama FOX-Basher Anita Dunn Praises Mao Tse-Tung (Video)

Does this mean those that own homes in the hills west of Dublin are likely to suffer hugely from a ’6.2′ or equivalent temblor occurring more northerly on the Calaveras?
I watched as the bulldozers scraped and shoved tons of dirt around on the ‘higher up’ areas of those hills. Where there had been a spring that was filling a horse trough, there was now tens or hundreds of feet of compacted earth atop the former spring. I have no idea if the spring was piped and led off to a drain, or left to make mud pies. But then, in the early 1990′s, McMansions were erected on this dirt. I do not think the owners were made aware of all the earthmoving that took place to create the flat areas for the foundations. I knew the I would not buy anything erected there as there was literally nothing holding the hillside in place.
Should be ‘interesting’ to say the least.
tom

I’ll second that.

Real things, practical things, logical things, useful things.

Things that don’t spring out of a control based, theoretical, micro-managerial, manipulative mindset.

Fortunately, there are forces operating that serve, again and again, to remind us that so called progressivism cum Marxism will and must inevitably fail.

My ways are not
your ways.
Your feeble plans
don’t constrain Me.