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I think you hit on the most important part with the Fullerton example.Local governments have thrown aside any idea of community or community building.It all comes down to tax money creation for them.If it doesn’t make tax money for them they don’t want it.
I had the same thing happen here when the local morons decided that they wanted to create a history walk and such through downtown----a historic downtown that they tore down and replaced with modern junk in the 60s and 70s.The local historical commission had a meeting that I showed up to and reminded them---what the heck are you going to protect?The 70s junk that replaced REAL historic buildings?!Then I found out that they literally wanted to “import” historical looking buildings from other places.They wanted to create a Disneyland fake Main Street!:doh:
That horse was far out of the barn and we ended it there.We still have a sham history walk though.“On this site used to stand a historic building that we replaced because the mom and pop store in it didn’t make us enough sales tax money.”Dumbasses!
Holy Cow, that is an incredible story of government stupidity. There is nothing worse than those fake historic districts.