Letters to the Editor: Resort proposal is worse than obscene
To the editor: In my 45 years residing within the canyon, I’ve by no means seen a extra daring and bare proposal that flies within the face of planning and zoning legal guidelines. All for the only revenue for an especially wealthy firm. It provides obscene a nasty identify. This proposal ought to by no means have gotten this far and it now seems this may increasingly solely have occurred due to some questionable backroom shenanigans.
The Metropolis of Los Angeles deserves higher. When you begin carving up the Santa Monica Mountains for business use, there is no such thing as a turning again. Let our higher selves prevail and totally shield certainly one of our solely hyperlinks to nature. Within the Metropolis of Angels, some should be guardian angels.
Rodney Kemerer, Beverly Hills
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To the editor: The problem at hand is the rezoning of the Santa Monica Mountains from low-density residential to a particular business zone. This isn’t a query of jobs, although the developer certainly wish to deflect to a brand new narrative. One retreat in Benedict Canyon isn’t going to develop union jobs — that will take multiunit everlasting housing in correctly zoned areas close to transportation hubs.
Rezoning the Santa Monicas to permit business improvement shall be catastrophic to our metropolis’s very material. Visitors, wildfire security, underdeveloped infrastructure and the environmental influence are simply the tip of the iceberg.
Elizabeth Parry, Beverly Hills
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To the editor: The superb editorial on the proposed Bulgari lodge venture makes a transparent case for the Metropolis Council on Tuesday to finish any prospects of it being thought-about for approval. However there are two points not totally mentioned that make it much more untenable. One, ought to or not it’s accepted, it will set a precedent that the Santa Monica Mountains have been now open to business improvement. Not would zoning have any that means. Two, there’s seen corruption in Metropolis Corridor.
Bruce Goldsmith, Beverly Hills
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To the editor: How can the town in good conscience grant a zone change in an already high-fire-risk space, the place wildlife are struggling to outlive, and threat compromising all of the L.A. hillside areas? We’ve got many luxurious inns near the proposed web site — we don’t want one other.
Caroline Fleck, Beverly Hills
