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Frank Russo is ready for Snoopy and the Petaluma Wristwrestling Championships...
...northern California. A shimmering construction of nylon slung between steel posts, Running Fence issues from the sea at Bodega Bay in Marin County, wending 24½ miles up hill and down dale, over ten public roads (including Highway 101) and through dozens of farms, to finish inland near Petaluma, Calif. For an artwork, it has consumed staggering amounts of time, manpower and materials: 300 students, 2,050 posts, 165,000 yds. of material, miles of wire and hundreds of thousands of hooks...
...condominiums, the town now requires that a development review board approve all buildings except single-family homes. Mayor William Jenkins likes to speak of this deliberate slowdown as "the Scottsdale syndrome-let's let the town remain the same as it was when I came here." Similarly, Petaluma, Calif., a small agricultural community that has grown by nearly 50% in the past eight years, recently won a legal battle over its fairly new policy of slow, planned growth instead of wide-open development...
...builders' lawyer admitted, however, that "if the court defines and protects the right to migrate and settle as a fundamental liberty, few local land use regulations are likely to survive in their present form." Backed by 36 other California towns, Petaluma's attorney responded: "The question at issue here is whether a city has the right to determine its own destiny...
Federal Judge Lloyd Burke concluded, "No city may regulate its population growth numerically so that residents of other cities cannot enter and establish residency there." He based his decision on the right to travel, apparently the first judge to do so in such a case. Petaluma will probably appeal, making it likely that the Supreme Court will eventually have to sort out the competing interests of two treasured American values: local self-rule and unrestricted mobility...