Growth and Gravel Pits
* Re “Proposed Gravel Pit Gets Rocky Reception,” Sept. 19.
Santa Clarita is whining about a proposed nearby gravel pit that would save fuel and stem pollution overall in this region? This complaint from the most overdeveloping city in the area will generate no sympathy from me or my neighbors in Grimes Canyon, a major source of that area’s aggregate.
The dust, traffic and waste of resources generated by the pits here are in large part due to the ludicrous level of development going on there, more than 30 miles away. If Santa Clarita wants to address the problem it should look to its own perverse growth.
Stop ruining Ventura County and figure out a way to halt the madness at home. Send [Santa Clarita City Councilwoman] Laurene Weste over here to see how her “small area” impacts a town the size of Fillmore.
Shouldn’t Santa Clarita be concentrating on the source of the problem? Using its energy to oppose the Newhall Ranch project would be more effective.
Santa Clarita is a menace to the entire region. I have never heard a statement of such NIMBY hypocrisy.
ZACK GRIFFIN
Bardsdale
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