ARNOLD THRE NOVATO SENIORS UNDER THE BUS

Warner Creek was built and sold to the Novato Community as senior housing for Novato residents first. Of 84 units 9 went to existing Novato residents, why? The Marin Housing Authority the entity in charge of administering the occupation of that development never advertised the availability of the units in Novato to Novato residents. Instead, the availability was advertised as far away as Contra Costa County but not Novato. Why did Judy Arnold allow this to happen?

On the Board of the Marin Housing Authority sits Judy Arnold.  She threw eligible Novato seniors under the bus by looking the other way when the advertising of the housing availability program was developed. This is inexcusable and more than enough to show Arnold the door in this election.

This inaction begs the question why?  Simply, the County and its co-dependent cast of developers, union, consultants, etc. want money available to fund projects that suit their interests which many times are at odds with the community at large and local zoning regulations. Arnold gets over two-thirds of her spending money from these groups.

Another answer is that the eligible Warner Creek housing candidates in Novato were labeled as “too white”, wrong national origin, not disabled nor a member of one of the rapidly expanding number of “protected groups” defined in the federal Fair Housing Act.

Warner Creek was presented to Novato by its housing  advocates as housing for seniors first for eligible Novato residents and then others. This was the lever used to justify the housing density, not meeting local regulations such as parking, very limited tax payments to the City of Novato and essentially free use of the Novato taxpayer supported infrastructure that would be required to provide support services required yet subsidized by the Community.

During the Warner Creek approval process there was great concern expressed by public comment regarding its location across the street from the huge Wendover apartment complex that Toni Shroyer and other citizens were in the process of forcing the police department to clean up and of forcing the Wendover owners to comply with existing regulations or lose their tax exempt status.

Judy Arnold was totally absent as it involved problems within her District which seem of little concern to her other than in election years. She is so absent from the local scene that many neighbors doubt she actually resides at her “residence” on Ridge Rd using it more of a meeting or staging site for events. Her “supervisor” vanity plates are rarely seen.

Arnold firmly believes in social engineering in its most radical forms as promoted by the current social engineering policies of the US Department of Housing and Urban development (HUD) which offers monetary bribes to regional and local governmental agencies to “affirmatively further fair housing.” To make a long story short Marin County with the vote of the Supervisors including Arnold signed a “Voluntary Compliance Agreement” in 2010 to correct “non-compliant areas” of HUD’s social engineering requirements.

Simply put, HUD’S social imperative is that if a certain percentage of persons of a particular race, ethnicity or other protected group cannot afford to live in a city because of the cost of housing then the city is a de facto discriminatory entity and should be forced to construct enough subsidized housing to reach the HUD determined proper racial quota, people of color, ethnicity, etc. mix. If a governmental entity is deemed out of compliance federal and state funding is lost.

For many, the loss of HUD finding is a cheap price to pay to retain control over local master plan zoning. However, Arnold and her cronies at the County level need the Federal lucre to continue feed the beast of their own self-interest. It’s all about money. Arnold freely admits this in the signed invitation to her last fund raiser. “In just five days we hit a campaign finance filing deadline. This will be the measuring stick with which each candidate will be measured. It is crucial that I raise as much money as possible….” Effectively, District 5 is for sale to the highest bidders.

Elect Tony Shroyer who has the backbone to stand up to the alphabet agencies.

Arnold is merely a spear carrier for the Federal agencies trying to eliminate local control of housing and zoning.