A ‘green’ music festival that could destroy a park makes no sense
To the editor: TreePeople CEO Cindy Montañez calls the proposed AngelFest music festival in the San Fernando Valley’s Sepulveda Dam Basin a “social justice movement.” This would just be laughable if she weren’t talking about 250,000 people trampling every blade of greenery in Woodley Park. (“Proposed ‘green’ music festival stirs environmental skirmish,” June 23)
I remember walking the area with her when she was running for the Los Angeles City Council. She considered it an important enough asset to feature in her campaign materials, and now she wants to sell it to the highest bidder.
The AngelFest battle is not just between environmentalists. I am a longtime Valley resident who regularly travels in this area, and the streets around it would become an impassable traffic nightmare for up to two weeks with an event of the proposed size. As I and many others say, it’s just the wrong event in the wrong location.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers should stick to its guidelines of use and deny the city a waiver.
Jan Brown, Panorama City
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