Greenbelts Seem to Be for Pet Projects
* We often wonder why the county supervisors ask citizens to spend their time working on planning committees and then, after the process is done and accepted, ignore the new guidelines.
It appears the greenbelts set up in Ventura County are being used by the supervisors to save land for their future projects rather than protect the land from development and keep it in farming.
Now it has happened again. The supervisors have agreed to turn a greenbelt into a six-house subdivision in the Tierra Rejada Valley. A couple of years ago they took greenbelt land for the jail, and the year before that they allowed a large multiunit apartment complex to be built between Fillmore and Piru in that greenbelt.
A greenbelt in this county is a private preserve for the exclusive use of supervisors for their pet projects.
MARIE WREN
Fillmore
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