Angry With Builders

Several weeks ago I received a phone call from a representative of the Committee to Protect Your Community, asking whether I would be willing to sign a petition to protect Lake Miramar from the proposed overbuilding down to the waterfront on its northern shore. I said I would, and was told that they would send me a postcard to sign.

It did not come, so I signed a petition circulated by another group. Now, I have received from the Committee to Protect Your Community, not a petition to save the lake, but a request to take my name off the petition I did sign!

This raises several important issues: 1) This committee lied to me over the phone: They are not interested in saving the lake, they want to destroy it by allowing overbuilding, the addition of unneeded roads and ruining the current contour of the land. 2) Had I just assumed that this was the promised petition, signed it and sent it off, I would have been tricked into lobbying against my best interests. No doubt, many who have sent in such a document have been tricked in this way. 3) The fact that this committee resorted to such dishonesty this early in the campaign shows that they know an informed public will choose against them and in favor of the lake.

I, for one, have had it with the lies of the builders and their toadies. I am going to vote against the builders every chance I get, on moral grounds, until we have in place a strict, comprehensive and strongly enforced development plan for the entire San Diego area.

LAWRENCE R. CARLETON

San Diego