Hill Canyon Golf Opponents

* I want to thank the hundreds of people who took the time to speak out against the Hill Canyon golf course. Your voices were heard and you saved Hill Canyon from this threat. You let it be known that there are sensitive, irreplaceable natural resources in the canyon that must not be destroyed. Thank you for your diligence and commitment. You stopped an environmental and financial mistake.

Hopefully the land that was to be a golf course will now be zoned open space, which is the zoning of the neighboring Wildwood Regional Park. Open space is also the proper zone for this key wetland habitat and is consistent with the demands of the California Department of Fish and Game and the United States Army Corps of Engineers for a required wetland mitigation area in order to complete work on the decaying sewer line.

By abandoning the golf course we can now move forward on the sewer line replacement and, through required mitigation, make Hill Canyon an even better natural environment.

Thank you for speaking out.

LINDA PARKS

Mayor, Thousand Oaks