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HOPE letter to Landwatch Landwatch Ducks Vital Growth Questions (c) Copyright 2005 HOPE |
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Landwatch Board of Directors October 12, 2005
Landwatch Ducks Vital Growth Questions
Greetings: The Salinas Californian published a Landwatch editorial advocating for huge county growth and disavowing "slow-growth" and "no-growth" in November 2004. HOPE forwarded this editorial to hundreds of our readers and expressed our very serious concerns. Landwatch wrote HOPE a letter on February 23, 2005 but failed to address all but one of our many grave concerns. HOPE wrote back asking Landwatch to disavow supporting 40,000 new housing units and 126,000 population increase. Landwatch sent HOPE a final letter on March 10 ignoring our request, trying to trivialize HOPE's concerns, and still missing any substantive response. Overall the Landwatch letters ducked, or failed to respond to, all but one of our very serious questions. The following are some of HOPE's unaddressed concerns --
In razor sharp contrast HOPE clearly does not accept growth. HOPE is unambiguously dedicated to fighting environmentally harmful growth, to protecting our area's imperiled habitats, animals and plants and our human quality of life. As Elizabeth Leeper observed - As long as there is no water, we cannot grow without causing harm. Perhaps Landwatch needs to clarify whether it is an affordable housing construction advocate or an environmental advocate. While our county endures so many environmental emergencies and crises including imperiled species, their habitats, water and traffic, we suggest you carefully consider that one cannot at the same time both bulldoze and save an imperiled species habitat.
With all due respect, David Dilworth, Executive Director
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