IDIOT ALERT - Farmer's Field in Los Angeles

This is why California does not work.
An insane 10,000 page environmental impact report that took two years to make.

Farmer's Field  -  A Bureaucrat's Wet-Dream Come True!

• Endless government created delays while millions are unemployed.
• A "touchy-feely" Green sports stadium where developers claim people will walk, bike or take the bus to the games.  (It is hard to stop laughing.)
• If you obey your Big Government Masters and take approved "Green Mass Transit" to games you will be given first crack at tickets.
• Fan tailgate parties are banned  -  Non-Government/Big Developer approved pleasure is not allowed.  You will only be allowed to eat in "approved" corporate restaurants. 

The proposed Farmer's Field Stadium is an example of why California is totally screwed up.

While millions are unemployed there are endless delays by government at every possible level, moronic 10,000 page environmental impact reports, labor union input, and idiotic "green" transit proposals.  All of it for a stadium that will host but a tiny, tiny number of NFL games.  No wonder businesses choose to move to Texas.

A group seeking to bring the NFL back to Los Angeles unveiled a massive environmental plan Thursday, laying out ways to deal with the traffic nightmare that throngs of fans could create around the proposed $1.4 billion downtown stadium on game days.

Required under a state agreement to make the planned 72,000-seat Farmer's Field environmentally friendly, Anschutz Entertainment Group said it will spend about $35 million to reduce the traffic footprint by, among other things, expanding the nearby U.S. 101 freeway and a commuter train station.

The environmental impact report has a goal of having 25 percent of fans use alternative transportation, with 5,000 people estimated to walk or bike to games reports Business Week.

"We have to change people's habits from the day they buy their first ticket," AEG President Tim Leiweke said at a City Hall news conference.

Leiweke stressed the stadium's green credentials in unveiling the 10,000-page document, which is a key step in returning professional football to Los Angeles for the first time since 1994. Leiweke said he hopes the stadium will be ready in time for the 2017 season and added that if an NFL team arrives before the stadium is ready, it can use temporary venues such as the Rose Bowl in Pasadena or the Los Angeles Coliseum.

The report, which took two years to complete, is a milestone on the way to luring back a team to Los Angeles, which lost both the Raiders and Rams in 1994. After a 45-day public comment period, the report goes to the City Council. It also could face legal challenges but Leiweke praised the completion the $27 million report, which he called "the world's most expensive piece of paper."

"In terms of football, we are now in the offensive zone, not the defensive zone," Leiweke said at the news conference where he was surrounded by helmeted construction workers, janitors and other union laborers who back the stadium.

Leiweke said he was confident that the mitigation plans could deal with the upsurge and even the crush from a Super Bowl, noting that 365,000 people currently travel in and out of downtown every day.

"We can do that on a Sunday for 68,000 people," he said. "We can do this. We just have to teach people and reward them for using mass transportation."

One idea would be to give mass transit users first crack at tickets, he said.
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(Business Week)

Tailgate parties are banned.
You must pony up taxpayer cash to help fund the stadium, but it will be a cold day in Hell before you are allowed to cook and eat your own hamburger.

A swap meet could set up here.
Some $1.4 billion seems a bit pricey for an NFL stadium that would host a tiny handful of games in the fall and winter.  Maybe during the rest of the year the stadium could be leased out for swap meets, farmer's markets and Little League games.