Sepulveda Basin Arts Park

* Re “Basin Arts Park Plan Revised,” July 11.

I welcome the prospect of a cultural center for the Valley. But may I humbly suggest the businessmen and art patrons involved select a different site--perhaps a low-scale income area that in turn would encourage growth and improvement--and leave the Sepulveda Basin as is: green and unspoiled, one of the last remaining natural areas in this highly congested, overbuilt Valley.

STEPHEN JANISZ

Northridge

* Re “Site Spoils Plans for Arts Park,” July 14.

My sincere thanks to you for your short and to-the-point editorial regarding the proposed Arts Park and Cultural Center to be located in the Sepulveda Basin, next to Lake Balboa.

This is a flood-control basin! Do any of these art lovers know what goes on during the rainy season? Pictures of cars stranded in the basin are etched in my mind.

Agreed, we need an Arts Park and Cultural Center in the San Fernando Valley. There are communities that would benefit from the development of an arts project. Why not think of lifting the standard of living in these communities that could use the financial boost, instead of destroying, as you stated, “the Valley’s largest patch of open space and in a federal flood plain.”

LILLIAN ROSENTHAL

North Hollywood