Preserving Nature on Mulholland Drive

* Your article (“Historical Listing Sought on Mulholland,” July 16) has brought to my attention that someone is planning to build 37 homes at a site on the south side of Mulholland Drive, just south of Saltillo Avenue. I walk up that trail to the hills and canyons above many times a week and thus know it well.

Just above this parcel is another large area that a developer got ahold of. After what must be a least four years, they have probably sold less than half their home sites. So what was once life-sustaining, oxygen-producing vegetation is now mostly unused flat dirt and blacktop. It was an incredibly beautiful place that once many people, including me and my family, loved to walk on, and where abundant plant and animal life existed. I called it paradise, and they put up a parking lot.

As I walk down Mulholland Drive, I see quite a few areas that have been destroyed by grading and left to grow weeds, as well as all the unused inventory currently for sale and not selling.

I find it hard to believe that with this economy, people are not researching their projects, but destroying natural land and not even making any money at it. I realize that we are entering an era of less government control and I must approve, but to waste good money to destroy a great place for really no good reason is a waste, and government should not help promote waste. Especially when it involves our rapidly vanishing natural environment.

SCOTT ROBINSON

Woodland Hills