Loss of Laguna Niguel Park Rankles
Re the editorial “Grand Jury Sniffs Out a Rat” (June 8) on the Laguna Niguel parkland: We purchased our house with the knowledge that our children would have a park within walking distance from home.
The reality is that that park now has a housing tract smack-dab in the middle of it.
It sickens me to the core to think that this $80-million to $100-million tract of parkland was just “mistakenly” signed away to Taylor-Woodrow. And although Taylor-Woodrow continues to enjoy the benefits of this “free” acreage, the likelihood of it ever compensating our city in the form of replacement parkland is next to nil.
The grand jury’s “sniffing out a rat” and not poisoning that rat leads me to believe that that rat knows other rats in very high places.
FRANCIS WALSINGHAM, Laguna Niguel
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