Ahmanson Ranch Development

* Re “Ahmanson Ranch Foes Pin Hopes on New Supplemental Impact Study,” Nov. 19.

Thank you for the excellent article. As a resident of Hidden Hills and father of three, it is very important to me to see the true facts in print regarding the Ahmanson Ranch development.

I would like to see this beautiful area of California stay just as it is. It is my belief that the impact of the proposed development would most certainly have a negative impact on many lives, present and future.

STEVE HENDRICKS

Hidden Hills

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The communities that surround the proposed Ahmanson city and commuters on the Ventura Freeway deserve actual up-to-date traffic figures that include those that would be generated by the Ahmanson Ranch development.

Ventura County has become Washington Mutual’s lap dog. Repeatedly, county officials have looked the other way when pertinent new information has been brought to their attention. They cannot be trusted to be objective and fair.

This is special interest at its worst, profits and tax revenue at the expense of quality of life and the environment.

Anyone who lives or commutes in the West [San Fernando] Valley is well aware that traffic on our local streets and the freeway is already overloaded.

What is Washington Mutual hiding from?

The company should prove to the public and officials that its figures are correct by completing a new comprehensive environmental impact report on the entire Ahmanson city development.

JOE BEHAR

President, West Valley

Community Coalition

Woodland Hills

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This area must be preserved for future generations to enjoy. If Washington Mutual gets its way, I guess future generations will have to go to a museum to see what open areas used to look like.

It is very important that a new comprehensive environmental impact report on the entire area be done.

Washington Mutual is a Seattle-based company. Do you think Seattle would let them get away with destroying their open land? I think not. So why should the people of L.A. County, Los Angeles, Ventura County and the other cities . . . just sit by and allow this to happen to the area where we live?

Go back to Seattle, Washington Mutual; leave our area--our home--alone. We want future generations to enjoy the beauty of this land.

SHARON and HERB COHEN

Westlake Village

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If Washington Mutual has nothing to hide, why are they fighting so hard to stop a new environmental impact report? Like the presidential race, lets get all the information and get it right.

PARIS COURTNALL

Hidden Hills