Letter to the editor: Merriam Mountains – already determined?

Well, the Merriam Mountains project is back before the serve-for-life Board of Supervisors. I am not anti-development, but there is a time and place for it and this is not the time or the place.

Bill Horn’s reputation over the years is of being in the pocket of any developer. Well, Bill, you earn this reputation when you violate the spirit of a law, i.e., don’t talk to parties with matters coming before the board by having your aide tell the developer what you would have told them in person, so much so that you misspeak to the press and say you told them. Gee, isn’t your chief of staff an extension of you?

How many folks in our region want to give up some of their water for 2,700 new households? We have approximately 1.1 million housing units in San Diego County, with about 90,000 units presently unoccupied. How about we get these housing units occupied first? Oceanside, for example, has thousands of foreclosures and unoccupied units. In Vista, how about getting the house next to me occupied, the one that has been vacant for months on end? Or how about the housing developments that have gone bankrupt and now are dirt, weeds and empty pads?

If we have 90,000 empty housing units, why do we need 2,700 more along Interstate 15, which is a parking lot morning and evening? Oh, I forgot: Developers fund re-election campaigns. Voters should remember this at election time.

DAVID RAWSON

Vista