SAN FERNANDO VALLEY : Homeowner Group Queries Candidates
The Ventura Boulevard Council has distributed a questionnaire asking Los Angeles mayoral candidates for their “Stand on Key Valley Issues.”
The conservative advisory council, representing six homeowner and resident associations from communities along the Ventura Freeway corridor, plans to tabulate candidates’ responses and print them in individual associations’ newsletters before the April 20 election.
“We’re talking tens of thousands of voters,” said Gerald A. Silver, a council member from Encino, who helped draft the questionnaire. “We’re talking voters from Studio City to Woodland Hills.”
Although Silver said the council would not endorse a candidate, he said the questionnaires would help people in the Valley make “informed” decisions.
He said the council also plans to mail the results of the survey to non-members throughout the corridor. The survey, sent to only nine of the 24 candidates for mayor, probed views on issues ranging from growth to schools to crime. Specifically, it sought views on noise regulation at Van Nuys Airport, proposed growth of Burbank Airport and dismantling of the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Silver said that some candidates have already responded to the survey, and that the council has plans to contact the remaining 15 candidates who were not initially questioned.
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