The Wrenching Transformation Of Our Suburbs

Article author: 
Cherie Zaslawsky
Article publisher: 
American Thinker
Article date: 
13 August 2026
Article category: 
Our American Future
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... Menlo Park is a classic bedroom community. Much of the city’s appeal is centered on its “village character” downtown with its assortment of “Mom & Pop” businesses in mostly one-story buildings.

Yet Menlo Park’s City Council plans to convert three of our busy downtown parking plazas serving our one-of-a-kind small businesses into high-density seven- and eight-story subsidized housing projects.

If this housing is built, half of our small businesses would likely close during the three years of construction alone. More will close once the housing projects are built, when our tranquil, small-town ambiance morphs into chaos and crowding as a thousand new residents move into the 345 units in apartment towers shoehorned between our one-story buildings...

Massive high-rise apartment complexes are popping up in our suburbs... many units are offered below market rate as “affordable housing.”...

The concept being sold to the public is that “We need more housing!” even though people are leaving California in droves. In fact, the only increase in population we’re seeing is that of “undocumented immigrants”—aka, illegal aliens...

In truth, there is no “housing crisis.”... This plan created a one-size-fits-all template for all nine Bay Area counties and their 101 cities, to strip our cities of their uniqueness through compulsory urbanization, and to cram most of the growth along “transit corridors”—bus and train lines—for the purpose of incentivizing public transportation and curtailing our reliance on cars...

We’re now getting a taste of what Al Gore referred to as the “wrenching transformation” we’d have to endure to “save the planet.”...

... few are calling attention to another aspect of encroaching communism happening under our noses in real time: the physical re-engineering of our communities....

And Agenda 21 [Agenda 21/2030] is quietly but rapidly unfolding across our nation in matters pertaining to zoning and land control...

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