Porter Ranch Issue Beyond Boundaries
I am not in Councilman Hal Bernson’s district, but I wish I could vote to eject him. My home looks across the Valley toward where the Porter Ranch development is contested. As a resident of Southern California, I feel that the destruction of the hills is my issue too.
“Responsible growth” is an oxymoron in Los Angeles in 1991. The time has come to cherish the open spaces that remain.
Los Angelenos are rapidly forsaking an outdoor environment for an indoor one. We are bulldozing over the very qualities that attracted people here.
The concept that one has an intrinsic right to build on his or her property is anachronistic. Sprawling Southern California is a parchment to the reverence for market freedoms gone berserk.
We cannot develop forever. Why not stop now, while traffic continues to seep along, the air is not quite lethal yet, and we can wait in lines that wrap around one corner instead of two? And while the Golden State still has golden hills.
DANIEL FINK
Tarzana
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