Development of Another ‘Wasteland’
In support of the Ahmanson development: From the days when Los Angeles water supply came from open canals on what is now Alameda Street, when city streets were strewn with horse dung, we have been developing open spaces, creating more (and different) traffic, and disturbing wildlife.
Everything from Union Square to Bel Air, from Pacific Palisades to Malibu, from Hollywood to Woodland Hills was once open spaces. Weeds, decaying timber, dislodged boulders, birds, snakes, and animals of the wild.
Ahmanson Ranch, as it is today, is a wasteland begging to be beautified. The scientifically-architectured and landscaped city they propose to build would be a refreshing improvement to another stretch of Southern California wasteland and would add no more traffic to streets and freeways than did Woodland Hills, Canoga Park, and other “urban monsters” developed on what was once vast wastelands.
Welcome, Ahmanson development IOBY (in our back yards).
EDNA M. EDWARDS
North Hollywood
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