Posted by Lucy, a resident of the San Anselmo neighborhood, on Oct 30, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Regarding Bill Noble's piece on the FAR in San Anselmo....
FACT: The FAR will not stop McMansions from being built. It will hurt people who own small homes.
FACT: Other Marin communities that have FARs have reasonable ones. Not all communities have them.
FACT: The term "teabaggers" is vulgar. Why was this term printed in the paper? Does everyone know that it means? It means: a man who dangles his genitals in a woman's face. It seems if anyone should be ashamed it's Mr. Noble!
Posted by Steven Lee, a resident of the San Anselmo neighborhood, on Nov 1, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Measure E is reasonable and will not hurt people who have small homes. If you have a 5,000 square foot lot with a 1,500 square foot home, you will be able to build a 2,250 square foot home (45% FAR) plus a 400 square foot garage. The intent of the ordinance is to only count attics that are used as living spaces, but if you're afraid your attic will count because it has a floor, you can always remove the floor. A 750 square foot addition is a lot especially when you end up with a 2,650 square foot home on a 4,000 square foot lot. (Arguably, it's too big!)
I just don't understand the rhetoric the No on E people are espousing. If they think San Anselmo’s FAR is so unreasonable, why don’t they just run on a platform that argues for a change to the ordinance? If Measure E doesn't pass, the Town Counsel will not even be able to discuss another FAR for 12 months.
What a terrible waste of time and energy using a referendum is when we all agree that a FAR is needed.
Posted by Doug Kelly, a resident of the San Anselmo neighborhood, on Nov 2, 2009 at 2:34 pm
"Teabaggers" refers to the movement to lower taxes that follows the principles of the original Boston Tea Party that occurred in the (then) colony of Massachusetts on December 16, 1773.
I had to go find what you were reffering to and I have never heard that term until you just told me now. Wow, Lucy.
Posted by Louise L Mathews, a resident of the San Anselmo neighborhood, on Nov 2, 2009 at 6:19 pm
Dangles in front of a woman's face? What happened to gender-access- to-all-Marin?
Tea Party are the events across America, lowering taxation is a part of the thought, but regaining the government back to the people is more on target.
The Boston Tea Party had nothing to do with lowering taxes. It had to do tea merchants who objected to just the British Tea Company being exempt from tea taxation that other tea merchants had to pay.
Demanding that equity prevail- kind of reminds of the Sign Ordinance that allows schools and any group that is co-sponsored by the Town of San Anselmo has access to sign placement and size that is not otherwise available to a single person- where equity did not prevail.
Posted by Mark, a resident of the San Rafael neighborhood, on Nov 2, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Right on Dan. S.
Can the author of the article (How Do You Solve a Problem Like Mejia?) please answer Dan's questions? How slanted and one sided can a "journalist" be when they completely miss the most obvious and glaring ramifications of an issue? This article read like it was written by the illegal immigrants grandmother.
How about if you write a thorough follow up piece on the outrageous financial cost and extreme burdens that these blatant criminals place on our local and state resources.
Posted by Bob, a resident of the Santa Venetia neighborhood, on Nov 2, 2009 at 10:20 pm
Lucy, you've got to get a grip ! (no pun intended).
"Teabaggers" (noun) are a large and resonable organized group of people who, in a nod to the theme of Boston Tea Party, advocate less goverment control and intrusion in our lives.
Whereas "teabagging"(verb) is what you are referring to,....and I highly doubt that there is a large, organized group of people advocating this.
Posted by Lucy, a resident of the San Anselmo neighborhood, on Nov 5, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Bob, Doug and LLM,
Would it be correct grammar to say the following....
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I am using male names only since Louise mindfully pointed out that progressive Marin should be inclusive of all orientations' interest in teabagging. I totally agree! I didn't use female names as I believe it's fair to say that most female couples would have a difficult time teabagging...unless one was a tranny, and I do want to acknowledge that possibility...and I'm totally for any groups' rights to teabag. Let's vote on it in Maine!
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Thanks again for your help with this! I honestly have NOTHING better to do than to follow up on this issue...
Posted by Larry Sims, a resident of the Kentfield neighborhood, on Nov 6, 2009 at 12:41 pm
I'm laughing so hard, it's difficult to write. But let me explain to those who aren't in on the joke. After the insurance companies and Fox News began organizing and staging "tea parties" at the town hall meetings last summer, the democrats and progressives began referring to the tea party participants as "tea baggers," a joke in reference to a certain sex act (that's kind of been described in earlier posts, so I won't go into it). To the delight of the left, most conservatives weren't hip to the joke and began referring to themselves and the "movement" as tea baggers. This has been going on for months; I can't believe some people don't know about this.
Posted by Lucy, a resident of the San Anselmo neighborhood, on Nov 7, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Very sorry that they removed my somewhat perverse but sincere grammar questions before folks had time to respond. I'll have to sneak them in again somewhere else...freedom of speech and all that! Maybe Ford could make a really big sign about teabagging and put it up on Drake?
Please do check out the John Waters film PECKER (about a boy who "pecks" at his food) for some scenes about how teabagging fits into the actual world...not just the titillating eworld. Don't worry, it's not obscene....just good, clean, teabaggin' fun. I had posted a link to a youtube scene, but I guess it was too upsetting for the progressive folks at the Pac Sun. You can "search" for it on your own!
Oh, I did forget (because of the excitement) to mention in my comments way back that all 6 of the candidates who ran for SA town council are liberal democrats, none of them really should have been called "teabaggers" since they are not conservatives, AT ALL. I'm sure that they would all vote for public health care for SA. Isn't that why the term "teabagging/teabagger" went public because of health care? I think it's weird (and yes I do believe I know weird when I see it) to use the term in the context of homeowners' rights to add additions onto their homes....but on the other hand this forum continues to be a helpful, important and profoundly powerful community discussion. Kumbaya friends and neighbors KUMBAYA!!!
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