Dear Editor,
The conclusions in your editorial were so biased and out of
touch with reality and community needs that you should have had Mr.
Kehriotis sign the editorial.
Commissioners did their job with Ridgemark denial
Dear Editor,
The conclusions in your editorial were so biased and out of touch with reality and community needs that you should have had Mr. Kehriotis sign the editorial.
1. You accuse the planning commission of overstepping their authority in their denial of the project. Isn’t it the Planning Commission’s responsibility to determine wether a project is good for the community and meets all of the standards required of a GOOD PROJECT and reject those that don’t?
2. You state that the planning commission “allowed emotions” to trump common sense. Since when is it emotional to ask a developer to make minor changes to a project to meet the communities needs; and when the develop states it is either “my way or no way”, is the planning commission supposed to kowtow to the developer’s ultimatum or be accuse of being emotional?
3. The logic that this project is economic development is false. Building a project that only creates jobs in one location (The County) by reducing the number of jobs in another location (The City) does not create any additional jobs. The total number of jobs is the same! All this project will do is reduce the requirement that Ridgemark residents will have to drive miles less to get the same service, meanwhile, the same businesses two miles down the road will suffer economically.
4. The planning department’s states that the project would not serve as a magnet for cross town trips; but, it would serve as a magnet for those families living in Cielo Vista as many of them will be closer to the project than some of the Ridgemark homes. Additionally, there are two projects in the planning stage for 200 homes in Fairview corners, and another two hundred homes in Santana Ranch. This traffic will impact the entrance from Airline Hwy to Ridgemark and may be even further impacted if and when Gavilan College expands their facility on that corner.
5. The Planning Commission’s request to the developer for a change was justified, and you would certainly concur with their request if you living in one of the fifteen homes that used to look from their backyard on to tennis courts, and will now have to look up at a twelve foot brick wall.
The Board of Supervisors appointed the Planning Commissioners and I hope that the Board realizes that the Commissioners did the job to which they appointed them.
Herman Fehl, Hollister
Supes are hypocrites for not demanding accountability from COG
Dear Editor,
What a bunch of hypocrites we have for county supervisors. They are requiring accountability from EDC, while they condone and tolerate and aid and abet COG, where there is no accountability, no transparency, and no respect for taxpayers. COG is given a pass, while BOS wants EDC to toe the line. Pure hypocrisy; government double standard just like Sacramento and DC.
The BOS should just get the Hell out of the way and let the private sector act, which is what America learned from its origins at Plymouth and Virginia Colonies, and ever since. BOS has capitulated to the government of COG, where constitutional rights are trampled, waste is rewarded, Leninist policy dominates, deficits are planned, and private-sector transport solutions ignored. COG’s Directors’ arrogance and ignorance:
places motorists’ safety lower than transit needs even though 99.6% of annual trips in SBC are by private vehicle; rewards special interests with boondoggles paid for with taxpayers’ dollars; rapes taxpayers to fund government transport that competes with private sector carriers, while defrauding voters with false, fraudulent and misleading financial reports which would be criminal acts if done by private sector carriers; increases air pollution, road congestion, and streets and highways maintenance costs while ignoring private-sector solutions.
We must end the hypocrisy in local government: EDC/private-sector are damaged more by local government waste on COG’s taxpayer subsidized boondoggles. Stop hypocrisy in local government: Start by terminating unconstitutional, unaccountable, non-transparent, fraudulent, anti-competitive COG, which is just a mouthpiece for VTA anyhow, which has no lawful authority in our County whatsoever, but to which the COG Directors give their deepest kow-tows.
Caveat Viator!
Joseph Thompson, Tres Pinos
Who is sharing the burden?
Dear Editor,
It is time for President Obama to float like a butterfly and sting like a bee. Be sure that all Americans understand that the next $100 billion in cuts will be done this way: $75 billion for Congressional Districts controlled by Grover Norquist and $25 billion for the rest of the United States. This allows the True Believers to shoulder their share of the burden and gives them credence for the 2012 elections.
Frank Crosby, Morgan Hill
