I earlier wrote about the goings on between the Los Angeles County Nuisance Abatement Team (NAT) and residents in unincorporated Antelope Valley communities like Little Rock. More information is now emerging that makes Littlerock, California look a lot like Mel Brook’s mythical Rock Ridge, the town at issue in his brilliant comedy, Blazing Saddles. In Blazing Saddles, the villainous Attorney General, Hedley Lamar, is putting a railroad through the area and needs to run all the settlers out of town. So he enlists an army of cutthroats and assorted degenerates to do the deed.
How does this resemble what’s going on in Littlerock?
The county zoning people came out and held some so-called public hearings on their efforts to change the zoning in the area from agricultural so that the population density can be increased from one home per acre to eight homes per acre. In otherwords, create another San Fernando Valley as though we don’t have enough lebensraum for upscale developments that will make builders and real estate interests millions of dollars. Millions of dollars to those interests translates into lots of fat campaign contributions for members of the Board of Supervisors that will ultimately approve the zoning change.
In spite of the fact that the community members who appeared at the “public hearings” were dead set against the plan, the zoning officials wrote up the results as though it’s all hunky dory and everybody just loves the idea.
So in the mean time, NAT agents have been laying the ground work to run as many of the pre-existing population out of Littlerock and similar communities like Acton using rampant and unrestrained citations for supposed “nuisance” violations (see my earlier posting on Littlerock’s revolt) costing people thousands of dollars and running them out o;f their homes and out of the community. Just like in Rock Ridge.
Well, the people of Littlerock are just like the people of Rock Ridge. They’re fed up and they’re not going to take it anymore. They’ve launched a “revolt” utilizing the tools that the Constitution and laws of the State of California and the Constitution and laws of the United States of America give them. If you want to get involved with this “revolt,” let me know at [email protected]. AV Press Article NAT No-Show