Letters to the Editor

Last night was the League of Women Voters/PTA School Board Candidate Forum at Lin Howe School, and there will be another forum at Vets Auditorium on Thursday night at 7.

This election offers five very strong candidates, and it is tough to decide who to vote for. I know four out of the five running.

You can be sure I spoke to the one I didn't know at the two candidate forums I saw them all in.

I have been a West Culver City business and property owner for 30 years.

Regarding the Upward Bound Homeless Shelter Proposal for the Sun Bay Motel on Beethoven Street and Washington Boulevard in West Culver City, there are pertinent elements I feel need to be considered:

In spite of their best intentions, how can Upward Bound assure us they will be able to place the prospective tenants in permanent housing in a span of 90 days?

[Editor’s Note: Paul Madison of the Culver Alliance for Quality of Life activist group delivered this statement at last Monday night’s City Council meeting just before a revised mixed-use ordinance was, effectively, passed.]

Culver City has mixed-use fever. So do a great many other cities in this country, and there are good reasons for it.

[Editor’s Note: Just before the City Council informally approved modified numbers and concepts for Culver City’s new mixed-use ordinance on Monday night, community activist Tom Camarella made the following statement to Council members.]

I am here tonight on behalf of the Gateway Neighborhood Assn., and various other Culver City residents.

In 2006, when the opposition to the (developer) Bob Champion proposal was just beginning, I wrote a letter stating that while the project was adjacent to Sunkist Park, it could have an effect on other areas of the city.

Not only would the increased traffic on Sepulveda Boulevard make it difficult to travel in the city, the assault on one neighborhood may be the start of the assault on all neighborhoods. Since that time, I have talked to and received communications from many people offering their support in our fight.

During 2007, I read, in the local newspapers, articles and letters from people from all areas of the city expressing their dissatisfaction with developments in their neighborhoods. Many of these widespread groups actually have joined in helping to fight each others problems.

It is interesting to see all the calls for our City Council to agendize the impeachment of President Bush and Vice-President Cheney. The City Council can do nothing to bring about the impeachment.