Balancing the needs for parkland, development
Re “As State Grows, So Does Threat to Parkland,” March 25
Your article raises a critical issue for Californians, and Angelenos specifically: How do we balance our need to provide more space for the hundreds of thousands of new immigrants to California and our long-standing desire to preserve our beautiful open spaces?
We can close the state borders to everyone who wants to move to California, or face the fact that growth is inevitable and figure out how to accommodate population growth while choosing which parkland can be sacrificed and which must be maintained.
We need housing for new immigrants to California, places for business to grow and good roads so the people who live here can afford to pay the taxes to support the parks we all dearly love.
SEAN MCCARTHY
West Hills
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Should we give away our state parks to the development of a growing population? In so doing, we are giving away California.
It’s that simple. Everything that makes California unique in the world is contained in those state parks.
We are the stewards. We can give it away for shortsighted reasons, but don’t complain when it doesn’t feel like California anymore.
BOB NENNINGER
Aliso Viejo
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