L.A., warehoused

Al Martinez [“Celeb Protesters, Where’s the Do-Re-Mi?,” June 2] has it right: In these times, “the value of property outweighs the needs of the people.”

If these 14 acres in the heart of South-Central L.A., now divided into small family farms, goes to its legal owner -- and how Ralph Horowitz became this is an interesting question -- a community space will be lost, a way of life destroyed, a wonderful source of vegetables gone for these families and anyone who wants to go by and buy them.

Do we need another warehouse? Isn’t there a little room in our thinking for a way of life honoring nature, community, the family, the respect for the land that farming teaches?

At least, why cannot the city delay Horowitz’s takeover until another solution is worked out?

CHARLES CRITTENDEN

Lake View Terrace