PLAN Initiative

As someone who signed PLAN’s “Planned Growth and Taxpayer Relief Initiative,” I am outraged that the development industry is suing the city to throw these signatures out. San Diegans want a growth policy. We signed and gathered signatures for this initiative, and we want to be able to vote on it. The developers, however, hope to prevent this initiative from ever reaching the ballot. Their case is so weak that it amounts merely to harassment.

This is an expensive political ploy--for the taxpayer. Not only will it tie up already overburdened courts, but we must pay for the city’s defense through our tax dollars. This developer-front group has even had the audacity to sue for their attorney’s fees.

Political questions should be decided at the ballot box. Put the initiative there. The court system has enough problems without being used for political maneuvering.

KENNETH P. JEFFERY, Rancho Bernardo