George Lucas' rich neighbors don't want him building a movie studio in their backyard. His response is the best thing he's done in years.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, for four decades Lucas has owned a large swath of land in Marin County in the North San Francisco Bay and has spent the past few years trying to transform the ranch on it into a massive, nearly 300,000 square foot, state-of-the-art movie studio complete with day care center, restaurant, gym and a 200-car garage. His neighbors, however, have rejected it every step of the way. Despite the promise of bringing $300 million worth of economic activity to the area, the already-well off neighbors are worried about years' worth of construction activity and the additional foot traffic it will bring into their neighborhood once completed.

The local homeowners association has been such a thorn in Lucas' side that he's decided to abandon the studio construction entirely, issuing this official statement about Lucasfilm's withdrawal of the new studio:



So what is George Lucas going to do with his property now that he's tired of his rich neighbors putting up a not-in-my-backyard stink? He wants to transform the property into low-income housing, naturally, ending their official statement with this zinger, "If everyone feels that housing is less impactful on the land, then we are hoping that people who need it the most will benefit."

He's working with the Marin Community Foundation to instead construct affordable housing for either low-income families or seniors living on small, fixed incomes. In order to smooth along the development, he's already given them all of the pricey technical studies and land surveys Lucasfilm spent years conducting. And we think that's just great. Because if there's one thing rich people will hate more than having movie magic made in their backyard, it's poor people moving in.

Mr. Lucas, we may hate you for turning your back on the original trilogy, but our hat is off to you on this one. Well played.

Appears no shortage of fledgling Occupy protestors in this thread.

This move appeals to all sorts of crowds. The "love the poor", "hate the rich", and "don't tell people what to do with their property" folks can each find something to love.

This move appeals to all sorts of crowds. The "love the poor", "hate the rich", and "don't tell people what to do with their property" folks can each find something to love.

Besides -- REAL Occupiers know that these jackasses aren't the 1%.

Lucas is the 1%, as evidenced by the fact that he owns 30 acres of his own land in a high value, prestigious region and is ready to build a movie studio on it.

The assholes around him are the like 3% below the 1%. The 2-4%, if you will. This is readily surmised by the fact that they can afford to move in next to George Lucas, but it's a neighborhood that sprang up *after* he got there so its residents could leech off the cache and notoriety of *his* address.

Notice the development is called "Lucas Valley."

If anything, this is exactly the kind of thing liberals and Occupiers would hate -- it's the 1% targetting and oppressing the demographic Occupiers and liberals want to become -- rich enough to live in comfort and luxury (probably without unpleasant jobs, perhaps even jobs -- or, at the very least, hobbies afforded by their spouse's jobs -- that profess to be altruistic or charitable and allow social contact with the celebrity and wealth of the 1%...) without actually being so rich that they get targetted by aspiring wannabes as the 1%.

He's saying that either he thinks low-income tenants are horrible or he thinks the other people in the neighborhood will see them as such, so either way, the whole thing only works as a "**** you" to the neighbors if the low-income tenants are perceived as a horrible thing by someone. In short, it's one rich ******* playing a joke on semi-rich assholes by "inflicting" poor people on them. Kind of a dick move all around, in my opinion.