Newhall Ranch

“Water Lacking for Newhall Ranch Project, Critics Say” (Sept. 1) quotes the usual no-growth crowd, who use water supply to try to stop a new residential real estate development near their homes. In actuality, Southern California’s potential lack of water is a political problem, not a physical problem.

Even more to the point is that people who buy homes in the Newhall Land & Farming Co. project will not materialize from thin air. They will be Southern Californians who would consume water wherever they live, who merely want to buy a better home in a better neighborhood.

There is no basis for the L.A. County Planning Commission nor the Board of Supervisors to turn down a well-conceived residential project on the basis on water usage.

MARTIN A. BROWER

Corona del Mar