Letter: Thanks accompanied by some confusion

I would very mush like to express my appreciation to the city of Glendale and the Glendale City Council for its health insurance assistance the past 22 years of my retirement. It was my pleasure to have served the city as its first senior city planner for almost half of my life and the best years of my life, from 1958 to 1993. I was fortunate enough to have worked with and for some of Glendale’s finest and most unique individuals. To name a few they were Glendale’s first Planning Director Joseph Mellen, City Manager C.E. Perkins and City Council persons such as Carroll Parcher and Ginger Bremberg — all important in Glendale’s history.

I understand that we retirees have become a burden to the city, and it can no longer assist us. However a few things I do not understand are the need for a remote industrial area river park and a freeway park nor low-income apartment housing in our commercial downtown. I believe that our once-British Planning Director Jeffrey Holland would have deemed it “marginal disutility of urban form and function.” Thank you again, city management and City Council for your support. As Mr. Spock said, live long and prosper.

Keith C. Palmer

Glendale