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   Alan to Tyrone   
   Re: Discussion: How to set up your mobil   
   05 Dec 25 00:00:14   
   
   XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.mobile.android, misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-12-04 14:20, Tyrone wrote:   
   > On Dec 4, 2025 at 2:16:14 PM EST, "Alan"  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2025-12-04 08:08, Marian wrote:   
   >>> J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>> In certain areas even the   
   >>>> _type_ (style) of things is controlled, to preserve the character of the   
   >>>> area; this may (and is!) sometimes seen as draconian, but the converse   
   >>>> argument is that it is the character of the area that attracted you to   
   >>>> it in the first place, and if you wanted to build a lot of concrete or   
   >>>> tin boxes, you should have bought land somewhere else.   
   >>>   
   >>> That reminds me. We have "albido" codes! Yup. Albido. If a house is on the   
   >>> mountain, it can't be "too visible" from the valley. The albido is a paint   
   >>> requirement that every home must meet so that it doesn't reflect too much.   
   >>   
   >> The word is "albEdo" with an "e":   
   >>   
   >> Another example of your supposed education at work...   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>>> But I'm getting   
   >>>> off topic even from our off topic: basically, agricultural land is   
   >>>> protected from being built on, basically on the basis that we need to   
   >>>> preserve what ag. land we've got, at least where it's _good_ ag. land.   
   >>>> (Also AONBs - areas of outstanding natural beauty - and national parks -   
   >>>> even if not actually _good_ ag. land.)   
   >>>   
   >>> I understand agricultural land being protected, & vice versa since   
   >>> fertilizer runoff could be dangerous if homes are built in the drainage.   
   >>>   
   >>> Here's the local Silicon Valley zoning which contains what we have.   
   >>>       
   >>   
   >> I love the way you feel this need to mention "Silicon Valley" every time.   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> Page 61 begins "HS" (hillside) zoning, which all the mountains are, where,   
   >>> in some areas, apparently, the lot size can be as small as 20 acres (8   
   >>> hectares) when subdivisions occur. But where I am, they don't want any more   
   >>> people so there will never be more homes than there are currently here.   
   >>   
   >> "Here" is completely redundant in that last sentence.   
   >>   
   >> "But where I am, they don't want any more people[sic] so there will   
   >> never be more homes than there are currently here."   
   >>   
   >> Means precisely the same thing as:   
   >>   
   >> "But where I am, they don't want any more people[sic] so there will   
   >> never be more homes than there are currently."   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> But far more germane:   
   >>   
   >> Page 61 does not "begin[] HS".   
   >>   
   >> It begins with the remaining text regarding "AR Districts" from the   
   >> previous page.   
   >>   
   >> Specifically, the text that reads "Lot Size Reduction. A subdivision may   
   >> include a lot or lots as small as 20 acres" is Section C of "2.020.060,   
   >> AR Districts: Specific Subdivision and Road Provisions".   
   >>   
   >> After you get to "2.020.070 HS Districts: Supplemental Development   
   >> Standards", one of the very first things it says is:   
   >>   
   >> "A. Setbacks–Substandard Named Subdivisions. Setbacks may be reduced on   
   >> lots less than one acre..."   
   >>   
   >> Ergo, HS zoning MUST allow lots of far less than the 40 acres you first   
   >> claimed applied to "every property".   
   >   
   > Haven't you learned yet?  We are not supposed to actually read the links that   
   > Arlen provides. We are supposed to just accept that the link says what Arlen   
   > claims it says.   
   >   
   >> I'm wondering where you got the degrees you claim to have that you   
   >> cannot follow such a simple flow of text?   
   >   
   > I'm guessing from online "colleges".   Or a local junior college.   
   >   
   > Maybe Arlen can provide a link that he will claim proves that he has degrees.   
   >   He will assume that no one will read it. But when we read it, it will of   
   > course say no such thing.   
      
   Isn't interesting that Arlen replied to another post which was a reply   
   to one of mine...   
      
   ...but not the one with the actual substance rebutting his bullshit.   
      
   No wait!   
      
   Not "interesting" at all.   
      
   Rather "utterly predictable"!   
      
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