Tahoe ARSEs

Mr. Ingles,

Your work has absolutely lit my imagination on fire. I have dreamed
about building a string of ARSEs (Aggressively Resource Secure
Environments), pun intended, from the Central Valley of California, up
the Sierra Nevada Mountains and around Tahoe -- the most beautiful lake
in the world. Your work has taken me 50 steps further than I imagined
possible.

I am running for Supervisor of the 5th District of Nevada County on the
platform of putting our struggling builder community back to work
creating a series of resource secure urban communities set in the middle
of wildness and linked by the trams we are so good at building. To put
people on a small footprint and give land back to nature which we can
see from our walkable homes, offices, schools. I want to be looking out
my window at a bear fishing for trout, or wolves hunting an Antelope.

The current environmental model at Tahoe is large greenbelts that add
value to 15,000 sq ft homes in far flung subdivisions which is giving us
an esthetically pleasing "billionaires and busboys" economy, but we have
severe resource vulnerabilities. At the core of my plan is to
completely change the nature of capital in Tahoe. I am looking to form
a democratic corporation that would build and own these communities,
fund it with government guaranteed bonds, and organize it so the
economic leadership is deeply accountable to the people who work
together to prosper. This is based on the core concept of "Capital as
a Commons" and is inspired by the work of Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom,
and the concept of "Corporate Democracy" as practiced by the John Lewis
Partnership in England and the Mondragon Corporation in the Basque
region of Spain.

To fund this, I will seek a $2.5 billion County guaranteed JobBond to
begin constructing this new future. The Truckee and Tahoe of today was
built with the great Railroad Bonds of the late 1800's and I believe
that our future will be built with JobBonds that bring our capital home,
create jobs, and forge an economically democratic future -- for as Sony
Founder Akio Morida said "nations are a dying industry, corporations are
the structures of the future."

The challenge I have is stoking the imagination of folks so that they
can visualize the future. I am wondering if you might be willing to
take this idea on as a design challenge? I am a graduate of the Yale
School of Drama and worked for three years right next to the
Architecture School and thought that there may be students there who
would want to play with the idea of urban structures in the snowy
mountains of the Sierra Nevada, or perhaps the Stanford Center for
Sustainable Development or the Berkeley Department of Urban Design.

I know you must be a very busy man, and the chance of this even reaching
you is remote. So, I don't really expect to hear from you. But no
worry, I plan to reference your work, and when I am elected, and I get
the bond passed, we will be in touch and then we could actually hire you.

Thanks for the healing imagination you share so freely.

--
Mike Rogers
530-587-5160
mike@MikeRogers4Supervisor.com
www.MikeRogers4Supervisor.com

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