People are Abusing Handicap-Designated Parking Spots
Editor,
In the year 2006, I wrote a letter to the Free Lance complaining of an attempt to tow my vehicle legally parked in a handicap zone.
As I tried to leave, a tow truck attempted to block me from leaving the parking lot, or was trying to scare me.
Since the first Fourth of July motorcycle rally, the situation has gotten worse. Local residents are reserving parking spaces, for their own use. Some are taking up to three spaces each. The parking lot at Fourth and East streets also became a parking problem for the handicapped. Motor bikes surrounded parking for the disabled, making it difficult for them to get in and out of their vehicles.
I read in a local newspaper that parking laws could be enforced. Actions like these, or the lack of it, place the integrity of the government in jeopardy, in San Benito and Santa Clara counties, because of the results of the Claims Courts, in Hollister and San Jose.
Louie Sumaya, Hollister
‘Terrible’ Idea to Convert Industrial Sites to Commercial
Editor,
What a terrible idea it is to convert rail-served industrial sites into housing. San Benito County’s No. 1 need is good-paying jobs. Economic Development Corp. Executive Director Al Martinez has, in turn, had to turn away those opportunities because we have no rail-served sites.
The only way San Benito County will ever be able to restore passenger rail service to Hollister is if we have sufficient freight revenue originating on the Hollister Branch Line.
Your stupid idea, if accepted by our leaders, will assure we never do have the industry, trade, commerce and jobs that accompany them.
Joe Thompson, Tres Pinos
