1. Does not reduce traffic, it theoretically prevents some future traffic.
2. Has no targets to gage progress, lacking accountability for results.
3. By lumping mixed use developments with all forms of commercial development, it undermines aspects of LUCE that encourage walkable and bikeable communities.
4. Does not limit housing development, so mono culture housing developments can be built without abandon, and just like too much commercial development is problematic, so to is too much mono culture housing.
5. By putting such a tight cap on commercial development, the cost to set up business in Santa Monica will be so prohibitive that only corporate operations will be able to afford new spaces. I imagine a lot more Starbucks, and a lot less Unurban Cafe.
6. Shifts the blame for traffic away from the fact that people make too many unnecessary car trips.
7. Fails to acknowledge proven ways to reduce traffic like enforcing the already existing but rarely discussed let alone enforced, Parking Cash-Out law. The LA City Council is however in talks to enforce it now, although the law went into effect in 1992.
8. This is not an anti-traffic measure. It is an anti-development measure, you’ll notice no where in the ballot description is the word traffic even on there. The support for this prop was created by using bait and switch fear tactics. I saw them getting signature at the Co-Op market by going up to people and asking, hate traffic, sign this, and of course people signed it.

So I urge my fellow citizens of Santa Monica to vote no on this poorly written excuse for traffic policy, and let’s get the ball rolling on real traffic reduction measures within LUCE.

I could go on all day. For some more of my thoughts on this, check out my blog post on the topic.
http://garyridesbikes.blogspot.com/2008/10/no-on-santa-monica-measure-t-also-known.html