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Peninsula News – Thursday, June 7, 2007Suspend Development
To the Editor:
The City Council of Rolling Hills Estates should be lauded for its courage and foresight in considering a moratorium on further development in the Peninsula Village.
The residents of the Palos Verdes Peninsula communities have gone on record in opposing such an open-ended urbanization plan that would change the landscape on the Peninsula forever.
With all due respect to property owners' rights, the neighborhoods and homeowners on the Peninsula expect their elected representatives to champion and balance the rights of residents to a rural-type atmosphere and a safe environment.
The projects currently authorized, consisting of 133 units and at various stages of construction will clearly provide and support a more proper database with regard to traffic flow, circulation and parking, as well as air pollution and safety, rather than the untested and unproven theories and assurances promoted by paid consultants.
Therefore, any future development should be suspended pending these findings by the city's own Planning Department and officially documented for public scrutiny.
Steve Zurnacian
Rancho Palos Verdes
What about neighbors?
To the Editor:
The city of Rolling Hills Estates' plan to build more condos seems to me to not take into consideration the people living in the communities around this terrible plan.
I have lived in Rancho Palos Verdes for 35 years now and I have had enough. For those last 35 years, I have supported the local businesses and have done my shopping in their stores. It seems the only way for me to express my disappointment with RHE is to take my business elsewhere. RPV officials will share in my disappointment if they do not fight your disastrous plan. With a copy of this letter to all my friends, relatives and neighbors, hopefully they will respond in the same manner.
Mathew W. Klein
Rancho Palos Verdes
Moratorium needed
To the Editor:
A moratorium on the Peninsula Center development plan to allow more time for public reaction and completion of the impact studies is of prime importance. I believe there is a substantial silent majority of opposition from whom we haven't heard.
Over the last few months I have discussed the plan with numerous people from all sides of the Hill and from all four cities. Only one person has been at all supportive, and many of those opposed were strong about their feelings. The tone of the letters to this paper has been consistent with what I've heard.
In the May 24 edition of this paper, Rolling Hills Estates Mayor Susan Seamans was quoted as saying, 'I just think we're trying to please a certain part of our community that we don’t know how large it is. The majority of the population thinks we're doing fine'.
However, the only support for Seamans, of which I'm aware, is from the developers and one or two of her fellow City Council members. Note that in recent RHE City Council voting, she was the only one (1-4) opposed to a moratorium ordinance and she was one of two (2-3) against seeking proposals to reduce the size of the development. It appears to me that the City Council doesn’t support the plan, let alone "a majority of the population"
The RHE City Council needs to hear from those of us who support a moratorium and oppose the plan. You will find their e-mail addresses at ci.rolling-hills-estates.ca.us
Quintus (Bud) Guthrie
Rancho Palos Verdes
Plan good for seniors
To the Editor:
Overlooked in the debate of the Rolling Hills Estates Village Plan is the fact that as we get older, there is less and less value to "open space" and “rural atmosphere.” Sooner or later we need to, or should, quit driving our cars. Then what?
We are then either isolated in our homes or are forced to move to an assisted-living facility. How nice it would be if there was an opportunity to move to "downtown" RHE from where one could walk to the library, the theatre, multiple restaurants, the post office, the barber shop, etc., and not need a car. The Village would provide that opportunity and enable seniors to remain part of the community.
Robert C Visser
Rancho Palos Verdes
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