The four types of growth

what do yo mean there are more than four types of growth?

what do yo mean there are more than four types of growth?

Original – Original growth means that we continue as we have been doing the last five years at least and let the developers do whatever they want whenever they want which in the instant matter means more office space downtown, more dense housing and potentially the world’s tallest building.

Zombie Ice Cream resin by Buff Monster, 2013

Zombie Ice Cream resin by Buff Monster, 2013

Zombie — Zombies are green so zombie growth would mean the same as original growth (more office space downtown, more dense housing, potentially the world’s tallest building) but we pretend there is some environmental benefit, such as the world’s tallest building being next to a train.

Devil — Devil growth means continue as we have been (more office space downtown, more dense housing, potentially the world’s tallest building) but we also create an incentive for churches to convert to more office space.

Skull — Skull growth means continue as we have been (more office space downtown, more dense housing, potentially the world’s tallest building) but we also create an incentive to dig up the dead, burn their remains –perhaps in our new Bixby Park incinerator — and turn Alta Mesa Cemetery into either an office park, a “company-town” for a leading software company, or both. Alta Mesa is 72 acres but does not serve well the 18-32 age bracket of young professionals.

— from Our Palo Alto / Buff Monster Ice Cream resin heads

p.s. when the $325,000 slush fund runs dry, the link above to “Our Palo Alto” may go 404…

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Mark Weiss, founder of Plastic Alto blog, is a concert promoter and artist manager in Palo Alto, as Earthwise Productions, with background as journalist, advertising copywriter, book store returns desk, college radio producer, city council and commissions candidate, high school basketball player, and blogger; he also sang in local choir, fronts an Allen Ginsberg tribute Beat Hotel Rm 32 Reads 'Howl' and owns a couple musical instruments he cannot play
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