The "No Growthers", who have been around for several decades, are now using the General Plan Update (G/P) to enact concepts within the G/P that they believe, along with a very liberal City Council, will fulfill their no growth concept they have been attempting for all many past decades.

Jon Luvass and Jim Owens, very active participants in the G/P and longtime advocates of no growth (there are many, many others), are pushing hard to create traffic congestion on the street system with the idea that serious congestion will force residents to use bicycles, public transit or just walking, with the hope that use of automobiles will be so difficult  to use they will eventually be eliminated.

Jim Owen, when he was on the City Council in the 1990's succeeded in convincing the City Council reducing East First Avenue from a long range plan to increase it from 2 to 4 lanes; and now with congestion he wanted to create is here right-now. Particularly during peak hours, automobiles can wait through as many as 4 signal changes before reaching an intersection. Think about the tremendous amount of air pollution that is being created by this type of congestion.

Now the" No Growthers" want to create similar street congestion on all of our major streets and arterials.

Property owners and residents must take an interest in the G/P before it is adopted or they will feel the consequences in the very near future.