Chase Knolls Apartments

So [Paul] Philips doesn’t think Chase Knolls apartments deserves to be preserved as a historic site. (“Chase Knolls,” Letters to the Valley Edition, May 7).

I wonder if Philips has seen the complex? I suggest that he visit Chase Knolls and see for himself the architecture, the park-like grounds, the wood floors, the stainless steel counters, the spacious, affordable housing. After seeing it, I’m sure he will be won over as Councilman [Mike] Feuer was.

Why tear down affordable housing that will stand another 50 years for a Titanic behemoth of a building that is overpriced?

Chase Knolls is not just an apartment complex. It’s a part of the neighborhood; it’s an old community, and it was designed to be so--an idea so old it’s new again.

BARRY CULLISON

Sherman Oaks

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The continuing disregard for all the residents of Chase Knolls apartments and homeowners of Sherman Oaks smacks of a myopic view of the real world by Legacy Partners developers. The mind games, disinformation and scare tactics of Legacy’s hirelings in the so-called relocation office may be transparent but are terrifying to the senior citizens. Hiring outsiders as a buffer between the angry residents and homeowners of Sherman Oaks proves their motive to be greed and nothing else.

We are or have been hard-working individuals. Every one needs to make a buck, even Legacy. However, not all of us have unlimited funds. Not everyone can afford or wants Legacy’s version of “luxury.”

Legacy’s attempted dismemberment of Sherman Oaks by the breaking up of Chase Knolls is an atrocity.

Chase Knolls offers open-space, cluster housing creating communities instead of the stacked stucco boxes of the ‘80s and ‘90s. Chase Knolls has lawn, trees and birds where the arrangements of the buildings provide gathering places with benches or planters to sit, relax and reflect. It’s an oasis of peace in the midst of hectic city life. You might say it’s an urban forest, a retreat for all who live here.

MEG McINTYRE

Sherman Oaks