Letters to the Editor: State laws versus local laws topic of upcoming meeting; reader objects to ‘slick’ commentary on Grayson
A home on my block, which is comprised of single-family residences, is now being converted to a “congregate living” facility. I know something about this because an elderly relative once resided in such a place in Orange County. From what I once was told, a maximum of six people can live in it and there must be at least two caregivers on the premises. Several neighbors on my block are not pleased. Will there be parking issues with visitors? Will there be an overload of emergency responders?
Congregate living is allowed under California state law. So are accessory dwelling units (ADUs), also known as granny flats, which have some homeowners upset while others are pleased.
And now there is recreational marijuana.
How do these state laws impact local laws? What can municipalities do?
On Thursday, March 1, at 7 p.m., at Brand Library Auditorium, 1601 W. Mountain Street, these questions will be discussed at a special community meeting with Glendale’s Community Development Department and the Police Department.
The city has partnered with Northwest Glendale Homeowners Assn. for this meeting, which is open to everyone.
Carol Brusha
Board member, NWGHA
Glendale
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Re: “Grayson Power Plant project is needed now” by Kurt Sawitskas, Feb 8. Sawiskas’ opinion piece slickly promotes the Grayson expansion as the only possible replacement for Glendale’s obsolete power plant. But his argument suffers from the very first because it demonizes the opposition as “fear mongering” and “zero tolerance,” never a good tactic if one wishes to come across as reasonable and balanced.
Why is the opposition upset about the Grayson expansion? Well, first off, the entire 5,000-page proposal plus the environmental impact report was written by the very two entities that designed the project. No independent studies of the potential for renewables made it into this proposal or Sawitskas’ defense of it. Second, they ignore the true danger of global warming, which Gov. Jerry Brown calls the greatest existential threat of our times, and which the global scientific community views with utter alarm. If this alarm is “fear mongering,” then I’ll go with the scientists and not with front people for the fossil fuel industry.
These are but two of at least a dozen major unaddressed problems with the proposed Grayson expansion. The opposition’s plea that this plan be put on hold pending an independent assessment is a far cry from “zero tolerance” radicalism.
Michael Beck
Glendale