Tujunga Wash Golf Course

Yesterday [July 8], I watched the Los Angeles City Council postpone its vote on the proposed golf course in the Tujunga Wash for two weeks (“City Delays Vote on Big Tujunga Golf Course,” July 9). This will give the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy enough time to develop its plan to purchase the wash and turn it into a nature and recreational preserve.

It is important that the Santa Monica Conservancy be given a chance to succeed. The conservancy will resolve the problems of trash and deterioration the property has suffered under the ownership of the golf course developer. The conservancy will preserve the endangered species on the site--as opposed to bulldozing away their habitat. The conservancy will eliminate problems associated with pesticide dispersal downstream of the proposed course.

There are over 120 golf courses in Los Angeles, but only one Tujunga Wash.

JOHN YARD

Conservation chairman,

Crescenta Valley Sierra Club

Sunland

* [David] Hueber stated that “the overwhelming number of residents in Sunland / Tujunga, Lake View Terrace and Shadow Hills are in complete support” of a golf course being built in the Tujunga Wash (Letters to the Valley Edition, June 15).

Really? Has Hueber asked everyone who lives in these communities how he or she feels? We don’t recall a vote being taken of those of us who live in these areas. The overwhelming majority of the people we talk to are against the project. The comment we hear most often is, “It would be crazy to build there. If those people who are considering building the golf course had been here to see the floods in the wash years ago, they would never build there.”

DAVID and

ELIZABETH PETTA

Sunland