Are voters being ignored?

know that the residents of the community of Westlake Village don’t?

In last week’s editorial, “Build it, they will come.” The Acorn states, “. . . In Westlake Village, the Lowe's home improvement store looks to be approved, but the vote will be close.”

Really? I thought the town hall meetings were to give the residents an opportunity to learn more about the impact of this proposed development and the zoning change it requires before it could go forward, and not meant as some sort of attempt to stamp an approval on a done deal.

Second, does it strike anyone as just a bit too convenient that the draft environmental impact report, which was originally supposed to be out at the end of this past summer, manages to get completed only months later right at holiday time, the busiest and most inopportune time for most people to be able to adequately address a community development issue? When does the EIR arrive? Thanksgiving. When are questions and comments due? Two days before Christmas and Chanukah.

And then our city council, which is supposed to be looking out for its residents and not for big business, schedules town hall meetings to discuss all this information, which its residents have had little, if any, time to review, for the first week of the new year.

Finally, if the city council wants to truly represent the people of the city, then why doesn't it agree to give the people the opportunity to vote on this project?

What are they afraid of? Barbara Erickson Westlake Village