Proposals to Reduce Growth in Orange County

Judge John Woolley has ruled to keep the slow-growth initiative on the ballot. Ironically, another “quality of life” hoax, the Seal Beach initiative, was defeated on the same day.

In your March 30 story, slow-growth leader Belinda Blacketer responded with “that’s wonderful” to the judge’s decision. A recent Chapman College study cited anything but “wonderful” results should the countywide initiative pass June 7. According to the study, jobs will be lost, housing will be more scarce, prices higher, and the traffic congestion problem will worsen.

I commend the Building Industry Assn. and the Commercial Industrial Developer’s Assn. for their lawsuit against this phony initiative. It is a shame Judge Woolley couldn’t dig deeper to expose the non-solution part of this initiative.

It won’t stop babies from being born and teen-agers from getting driver’s licenses. It won’t build one road. It will make things worse. It will hurt us all.

The elitist leaders of the slow-growth movement have little concern for real solutions to our problems. They craft emotionally appealing laws to protect their hill-top retreats, and the traffic just keeps increasing for us flatlanders. The medicine will be bitter, indeed, if we don’t wise up.

RICHARD G. MUNSELL

Irvine