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Dude, where’s my Utah? (Uncle Sam gave it to London’s Kennecott)
We need to take it back by eminent domain.
Saturday, April 8, 2006
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Kennecott copper in Utah. London based exploitation.
Take back our national resources!
Use eminent domain!
Lawyerdude says:
1. The copper industry in Utah should be declared a public utility.
2. The money ****heads in London should be sent packing; their
interest can be bought out by eminent domain.
3. The housing prices are way too high; this is why the
London folks continue to exploit there.
4. This is mere colonization/ exploitation.
5. Utah folks are dumbasses. The Mormon influence makes stupidity
acceptable there. They are shortsighted ****heads.
6. One of the problems of this country is that we give away the
wealth of this country. The federal government gives land to
foreigners like this mining company for pennies !
This same foreign government employs the ****heads from India
who come here and work in the patent department of the federal
government which they have totally ****ed up.
7. Why does this happen? People with too much power and not
enough ****ing sense. Corruption. Do the people of Utah have a
****ing clue?
8. There is no author listed for this story. Who would write such propaganda bull****? A builder? A developer? A bank? Oh, let’s see who is quoted:
A “said Keith L. Morey, manager for Kennecott's flagship Daybreak project, where just seven builders were chosen to help build the first town of 14,000 homes.
B. "It was a mixture of excitement and fear," Brad Wilson, president and chief executive of Destination Homes, said of his decision to sign on with Kennecott to help build Daybreak.
9. Why is no author listed? In self-promotional stories like this, these deceptive bastards write in the 3rd person. The story is often the produce of the people who are quoted. They deceive us by writing about themselves in the 3rd person - as though there were some author. This lulls us into thinking that we are reading objective news; in fact we are reading propaganda, in this case the happy talk of a promoter on the gravy train sending money to London.
Mega-suburb takes shape in Utah
Mining company builds community for half a million people
WEST JORDAN, Utah (AP) -- It's a development plan that will take more
than 50 years from start to finish. A string of "walkable"
communities, expected eventually to house half a million people, is
starting to rise on the nation's largest piece of privately owned land
next to a metropolis.
This mega-suburb, twice the size of San Francisco, will be the work of
a mining company, Kennecott Utah Copper Corp., which has no experience
in real-estate development.
The Utah company is a subsidiary of London-based Rio Tinto, a mining
multinational and avowed convert to environmentalism, which decided to
make a showcase out of its surplus Utah lands instead of just selling
them off for cookie-cutter subdivisions.
Home builders were skeptical when the Salt Lake valley's biggest
landowner laid out the plan for a 20-mile string of densely packed
communities framing the rural west side of Salt Lake County. The
communities would be laid out along a planned highway and light-rail
lines connecting to Salt Lake City.
Mining executives pitched the idea to some 50 builders. "A lot of them
rolled their eyes and walked away," said Keith L. Morey, manager for
Kennecott's flagship Daybreak project, where just seven builders were
chosen to help build the first town of 14,000 homes.
"It was a mixture of excitement and fear," Brad Wilson, president and
chief executive of Destination Homes, said of his decision to sign on
with Kennecott to help build Daybreak.
"We didn't know if this was something people would wrap their arms
around. It's so different -- the tiny lots and alley-loaded garages.
It was a risk, but at the end of the day we felt they knew what they
were doing," Wilson said.
Kennecott's whole plan calls for 162,800 houses in neighborhoods
mixing the wealthy and middle class in shared communities of gardens,
pocket parks and surrounding open space.
The so-called West Bench development -- the string of communities
along the base of a mountain range -- differs from other planned
communities by emphasizing connections to a larger metropolis.
Single ownership of huge tract creates opportunity
"It's part of a vision for how the whole region grows," said lead
planner Peter Calthorpe, a Berkeley, California, consultant who
designed the trendy redevelopment of Denver's old Stapleton Airport,
which is about the same size as Kennecott's Daybreak community.
Kennecott is developing the rolling foothills of its 144 square miles
of land, which ranks as the largest piece of land anywhere in the
United States that's under the control of a single, private owner and
next to a major metropolis.
Single ownership of the land "gives incredible control over
development and the execution of the plan," said Gary Hunt, a retired
executive for Irvine Co., which developed one of the country's first
master-planned communities, in California's Orange County, starting in
the 1960s. "In other parts of the country you don't have that kind of
opportunity."
At Daybreak's information pavilion, manager Barbara Breen greets
prospective buyers at a glass building with commanding views of the
Wasatch and Oquirrh mountains that frame the Salt Lake valley.
"We went on this incredible siege last summer, selling 40 houses a
week, so we ran out," she said. More than 800 houses have been sold so
far, half of them still under construction.
Kennecott: Enviromental problems have been solved
Daybreak was not without its environmental problems, a legacy of a
century of digging at nearby Bingham Mine, which is expected to keep
operating until at least 2018.
A small part of Daybreak was built over ponds that collected mining
runoff and heavy metals from 1936 to 1965. Kennecott scooped up 3
million square yards of contaminated soil and carried it back near the
mine.
Some buyers bluntly ask whether Daybreak would "glow in the dark or
something," said Peter F. McMahon, president of Kennecott Land Co. He
argued the Daybreak cleanup exceeded Environmental Protection Agency
standards.
"It's cleaner than a bunch of other parts of the valley," he said.
Kennecott is helping build a pair of reverse-osmosis filter plants to
clean tainted groundwater over the next 40 years, while providing
fresh tap water for the southwest part of the Salt Lake valley. It dug
other wells 300 feet deep to provide ground-source heating and cooling
for a new elementary school and community center and contributed
$400,000 to kick-start an environmental study of extending a
light-rail line from downtown Salt Lake City to Daybreak.
"It's a new business for Rio Tinto. Some people said, 'What are you
doing this for?'" McMahon said, pointing out that Kennecott has more
land than it will ever need for mining. "We have land in an area with
strong demographics and a strong economy. All that growth is heading
that way."
"Sustainable" development is a term McMahon and other Kennecott
executives often use to describe their venture. Daybreak, for example,
will contain all of its own runoff, using it for irrigation for native
grasses and 40 species of trees, said Greg L. Rasmussen, an engineer
and Kennecott's director of land development.
'Always wanted a front porch'
At Daybreak, every house will be within a five minute's walk of a park
on 37 miles of interconnecting trails, some lined with channel
streams. It will be easy to walk or bicycle to grocery and other shops
and restaurants in the village core.
Kennecott banned the use of aluminum siding and fake cobblestone
facades in favor of natural materials and insisted on rambling front
porches for most houses.
"My wife always wanted a front porch," said Craig Douglass, a
56-year-old software quality analyst for 3M Co., who moved from a
nearby subdivision, where he found his half-acre yard too large to
maintain.
At Daybreak, the couple bought a $273,000, 1,650-square-foot house
with "a nice small yard, and we're looking forward to all the
amenities" that will include a sailing lake, he said.
"The idea is these homes will appreciate in value because of their
quality and the amenities of the neighborhood," said Wilson, the
builder who has taken 200 orders so far and can't finish the houses
fast enough for his buyers.
Kennecott is selling lots to builders but can't control home prices,
which are rising with demand and range from less than $200,000 to more
than $800,000, depending on a menu of options the builders offer.
Wilson said Kennecott's first town is not only unique to Utah but the
country. He's toured many planned communities in other states but
adds, "I don't know anyone who has done it as well as Kennecott."
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