Please sign the petitions calling for a vote on
‘big box’ stores

I cannot understand how anyone who lives in this beautiful area could possibly feel that here would be a benefit to having a monstrous commercial center such as the proposed Home Depot project in our neighborhood.

I have one question to those who tout the convenience of having a Home Depot or other large commercial center in their neighborhood: If you wanted that kind of "convenience," why did you move to this area? Maybe next you will want a 15-story high-rise office building or an underground subway system?

I am sure that most of the people—the actual residents and especially homeowners—are smart enough to understand the horrible impact this type of commercial center will have on our property values and the quality of our lives. If you still are undecided, just drive down Agoura Road early one morning and imagine how different it will be with hundreds of cars jamming the road.

If you want to maintain the current rural environment of this area, please stand up and speak up now. The developers are spending big bucks to lobby our elected officials so we need to make it very clear what we, the residents and homeowners of the area, want for our community.

If you live in the city of Agoura Hills, please sign the petition to place an initiative on the ballot so the people can vote on this major issue. If you do not live in the city of Agoura Hills, please speak out.

It is clear that if we want to preserve this community (the reason we all moved here), we need to control the type of commercial projects that are built here. Or else in a couple of years we could be voting on a 15-story high-rise office building.

Don’t let the developers and politicians force this on us. Please speak out now.

Terese Schwartz

Westlake Village