One Last Word to the Wise

So Robert Kramer says of his proposal for Santa Monica’s tallest, most massive automobile dealership ever to abut a residential neighborhood, “There isn’t any controversy that I know of” (Times, April 25).

In all my time working with Santa Monica Mid-City Neighbors to organize community involvement in land-use planning decisions affecting our primarily residential neighborhood, I have never before encountered a proposed project that has met with such universal and vehement opposition from its neighbors as has Mr. Kramer’s.

I would strongly urge Mr. Kramer to display a little more sensitivity toward the concerns of the people living within a one-block radius of his would-be site, lest he be unpleasantly surprised by what the legal process will portend for the future of his project.

WILLIAM F. WEINGARDEN

Santa Monica