Fight Development of Greenbelt Area

Oxnard city planners have put forward a plan to approve more than 3,000 homes and an amusement park for development in the agricultural greenbelt area outside city limits. With a request for public comment on this immense project, a special session of the Oxnard City Council is scheduled for Wednesday at 7 p.m. in Oxnard City Hall.

Oxnard SOAR [Save Open Space and Agricultural Resources] strongly opposes this project and any similar proposal for development in our limited and protected greenbelt lands. Open space and farmland preservation agreements confirm the necessity for municipal boundaries beyond which Oxnard will not expand. If not respected, we will one day awake to find the new San Fernando Valley.

The purpose of Oxnard SOAR is to support the goal to preserve farmland and open space, develop only within available city limits and establish urban growth boundaries to control future growth by vote of the people of Oxnard. In support of these principles, Oxnard SOAR opposes the project known as the Southeast Oxnard Community Specific Plan, argues against any development into the greenbelt areas and endorses the need for growth boundaries.

If you are not willing to attend and voice objections to this massive development in Oxnard’s greenbelt lands, when will you object? Please join us in a unified voice saying absolutely “NO” to the Southeast Oxnard Community Specific Plan.

JOSEPH D. O’NEILL, Oxnard