You call this planning?

Re “County probes its own top board,” April 19

Woe to anyone who gets in front of the political steamroller in county planning. It’s been that way for the 40-plus years I’ve been involved in Los Angeles real estate. It’s also the reason most cited to justify new city creation in Los Angeles County, as typified by the city of Calabasas.

The city of Los Angeles too has become more susceptible. Only political influence can justify issuing planning documents and building permits crossing two owners’ property lines that benefit only one of the owners, as I see occurring in the city of Los Angeles even today. No competent planning jurisdiction would create such a situation without first requiring easement agreements between the parties.

But no -- L.A. issues permits, then leaves the owners to work it out. If that’s not an example of political pandering, I don’t know what is.

Karmen Brower

Calabasas

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Reading this article made me disgusted with our county Board of Supervisors. We don’t need to learn the results of the investigation to know that it has pushed a capable, decent employee onto the street because he dared to not implement their politically motivated zoning orders, which may have been prohibited by law.

The insistence by Supervisor Mike Antonovich that charges brought by a landowner against him are “absurd” only bolsters my conviction. It’s time to throw these rascals out, all of them.

Fred Dean

Los Angeles