Letters to the editor

The Salinas Californian
Posted on May 31, 2007

Thank LandWatch

As I read the letters to editor, I regret we are in such a mess.

LandWatch and other radical environmental groups can be thanked for the delay, expense and confusion in the General Plan Update process.

Seven years ago they came to Monterey County with their vision of the future. It took our community and leaders three years to wake up and derail their
out-of-town plan. Then we began an open dialogue over the fourth version of the general plan.

In the three years since honest debate started, LandWatch's side deserted the process twice: at the Refinement Committee and the Planning Commission. They decided to push their concept of land use planning through a referendum and, as one measure apparently wasn't enough, they forced four measures onto our June ballot.

Some measures are intended to confuse in order to assure that Landwatch gets their way. If you desire to clean up all this mess, please vote No, No, Yes, Yes. Put our county's land planning back into the hands of elected officials and their trained staff. The voters can decide who will represent them instead of doing land-use planning at the ballot box.

Chris Bunn Sr.
Salinas