Quality of Life and SOAR
* Re “SOAR Closes the Gate to Development,” Ventura County Perspective, Aug. 29.
Jon Haines’ long-winded diatribe on the scourge of Save Open Space and Agricultural Resources (SOAR) is only believed by those who have their personal fortunes to be lost.
See the San Fernando Valley. Smell the San Fernando Valley. See a prime example of urban sprawl. See traffic, crime, congestion. See lack of community. See loss of self.
Now see Ventura County. See a county under SOAR. See a beautiful county, focused on quality of life, not quantity of tract houses. If you don’t see it, I’m sorry. I do. And I want to keep it that way.
Don’t believe hatemongers such as Jon Haines of the Simi Valley-Moorpark Assn. of Realtors and others like him who are only concerned with their own private fortunes. SOAR is good for our county and is the essence of democracy. And relating SOAR to communism is like relating Mother Theresa to Buford Furrow.
Mr. Haines, get a clue!
VINCE CURTIS
Oak Park
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