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If you want to know what Chattanooga's Climate Action Plan will look like, look across America. Since SMART Growth development began in Portland OR, with its CO2 reduction, and affordable living schemes, the city has gone from an affordable, integrated community to a high-priced city for well-to-do and trust fund babies. Crime has skyrocketed, the poor live in a segregated poverty ring on the outskirts of the city and former residents hop the Green Boundary to commute to affordable homes 60 miles away.

San Jose's Climate Smart led to densification, less private property, and soaring home prices. Today, affordable housing in San Jose starts at $600,000 – $750,000. Most public employees can't afford to live in their own community.

All to upend the city to prepare for Climate Change of which not one single major prediction has come true in more than half a century. https://extinctionclock.org/

As for taking government funds look at HUD’s own documents:

“HUD has long interpreted the Fair Housing Act (“the Act”) to create liability for practices with an unjustified discriminatory effect, even if those practices were not motivated by discriminatory intent.”

In New York, residents were urged relocate from the Bronx to upscale Westchester County to satisfy HUD's Social Justice and Disparate Impact requirements. When people got there, they wanted to go home where they had friends and could afford to live.

In Rockford, IL HUD Compliance Agreements forced officials to advertise in crime-ridden Chicago to import residents for a housing development bigger than the one the town council voted for.

Behind the idealistic climate schemes, are stories of crime, displacement, and unfairness.

And we have not even begun to address how you will guarantee residents will never be subject to the endless flow of digitally captured personal images and data monitoring.

As the officials in Portland said 10 years after their city’s SMART initiative: https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2011/04/in_portlands_heart_diversity_dwindles.html

“…residents no longer feel they have power in the community, said the county Ethnographer, “There social networks are gone.”

“There were people here who wanted to fix up their houses, but they couldn't.” Anjala Ehelebe, city historian.”

We deserve better than tired, re-worked climate change schemes here in Chattanooga.

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Oh wait they ain t saying shit but excuses

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