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Originally Posted by Ayatollahgondola

Of course they want the water. More and more. And why not. Once you get it, or are promised it, you can sell it to developers.
The peripheral canal lives folks. Although it was voted down years ago, Arnold's backers and the feds have been working together in near secrecy to build it anyway.

Oh! And nightingale helped them by taking up their cause like a perfect useful idiot.


Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2010/11/10/317...#ixzz14vwxVrEC

In several ways, this idea is nuts except to the would be sellers of land and water.

The first is the preposterous idea of a farm interest north of Kern county selling water for approximately 18 cents a gallon to a housing development built on farmland in Kern county almost to Los Angeles county.

Then there's the paving over of farm land itself.

Housing prices are down, and I believed there is a significant foreclosure rate in the Bakersfield area as well as significant unemployment, what kind of "affordable" shoe box (I almost said "cracker box") construction is proposed in order to sell? Is it subsidized housing allegedly for farm workers or section eight housing?

It seems to me that the major industries in the Bakersfield area are oil extraction and farming, and there doesn't seem to be much in the form of genuinely gainful employment opportunity about now in either one. I doubt any local governments are hiring, and certainly not enough for for a whole development. It's also a long commute to anywhere else for a job.

Guess just who is going to be hired to build it with so many citizens out of work?

Just what the hell is the attraction of living between Bakersfield and the Grapevine pass?