Political Landscape
I am appalled! I just finished reading an article (May 17) about a $700,000 expenditure to landscape the as of yet “unsettled” Yale Avenue overpasses.
In less than one month, the voters of Irvine will decide whether to finally build the master-planned vehicular overpasses. And yet, our City Council, led by a principal opponent, Larry Agran, has decided to go ahead and spend $700,000 to landscape these areas. That’s $700,000 in landscaping that might need to be torn up after June 5--just two weeks from now. This is totally abhorrent.
Their argument? The people who live by these pedestrian overpasses shouldn’t be “deprived.” Yet they have been deprived since the council approved the expenditure last Nov. 28, and they would have us believe that these people can’t wait another two weeks? How stupid does the council think we are?
Are these the same council members who dictate that there be affordable housing? How noble. They think nothing of assessing the developers, who in turn pass the assessment on to the middle- and upper-income home buyer. And then they spend $700,000 of our taxes on a gamble, in hope that their scheme to prevent the vehicular overpasses will work.
If it doesn’t, then I guess we’ll all lose. It’s only $700,000. I think that is a disgusting and intolerable waste.
SUSIE HENDERSON
Irvine
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