Board’s Move Costs Measure R Support
It is going to be very difficult for me to vote for the tax increase when the [County] Board of Supervisors voted to approve the building of 3,300 homes on the Bolsa Chica wetlands.
The City of Huntington Beach begged the board not to approve this project since the city’s own environmental impact report showed it would cost the city millions of dollars to provide services if Huntington Beach had to annex the project later. The same report indicated it would probably cost the county even more to provide the same services. Nevertheless, the board pushed it through and thereby assumed the risk of additional debt, each and every year, that is estimated between $500,000 and $5 million.
How can I possibly vote for additional taxes in light of such irresponsibility?
BILL HALPIN
Huntington Beach
* In 1978, Howard Jarvis, father of Proposition 13, said it best: “If you don’t want your politicians frittering away your hard-earned tax money, don’t give it to them in the first place.” I’m voting NO on Measure R.
JACK B. KENNETT
Laguna Hills
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