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It's about the zoning

Re: The Acorn July 16, 2004 editorial

Dear Editor:
Your Opinion on page 4 of your July 16th 2004 issue disgusts me. Your not-so-veiled attempt at magnanimity is made obvious by your use of disparaging acronyms - vacuous terms which at best de-humanizes all of us and at worst are stereotypes; and stereotyping is the first mile on the road to bigotry.

Your opinion piece totally misses the point. At the heart of our protest is the very important principal that zoning laws mean something.

If a developer can so easily change zoning to maximize his profits today, then tomorrow a developer will come to build a six story office building down the street from you; or maybe a shopping mall behind your school; or a factory on the corner of your street; or maybe just a 250 unit rent factory across the street.

In this zoning- less world the people with money and influence- i.e. the developers who live in Beverly Hills and the governmental bodies who adjudicate in government compounds 30 miles away--none of whom live in your community--will have the decision making power over your community. In this zoning- less world you have no power, no control and your home and community are at the mercenary mercy of others.

P.S. your letters-to-the-editor email address as written in your paper on page 4 is a dead-end address. Is that intentional?

--Alex D'Anca, Simi Valley