Ahmanson Ranch Full-Page Ads

Reasonable people wonder who are the Ahmanson Ranch developers trying to fool with their feel good ads?

The poor red-legged frog featured in Washington Mutual’s full-page ads running daily in many major newspapers probably doesn’t realize that a misplaced and legally questionable development is about to wreak havoc on his habitat. This development will also wreak havoc on the water quality of the entire Malibu Creek Watershed--including Malibu Lagoon and Surfrider Beach.

The frog doesn’t drive and is therefore ignorant of the fact that the Ahmanson developers are going to increase traffic anywhere from 15% to 50% to the 101, depending on the estimates given by experts at the Aug. 25 hearing on the Ahmanson project. This will easily add an extra hour to the commute of many residents already fed up with the 101 logjam.

Ahmanson developers say they are preserving thousands of acres of “un-messed-with land.” They will be making hundreds of millions of dollars, while we are stuck battling the permanent destruction and traffic nightmare presented by the land that will be “messed with.”

Thanks a lot.

Debbie Gregory

Thousand Oaks