School developers not hearing local concerns

The Feb. 1 article on Heschel School's bullying of our community paints a misleading picture.

Jeff Woodcock of Oaks Christian School says we need more "faith-based education." Where have we heard that before; but wait, isn't he from Westlake Village? I notice his campus doesn't encroach on residential neighborhoods.

Mary Sue Maurer testified that there was no need for "public concern;" but wait, isn't she a council person from Calabasas who, by the way, "stated to her City Council that when hiking on trails she is offended by horse droppings"?

Likewise, traffic officials, so-called fire experts and Jewish leaders are said to have favored the location, but were Heschel's so-called experts paid professionals who were hired for the purpose of giving favorable testimony to rebut experts who said the opposite for free?

While dismissing our concern about traffic they are simultaneously appealing the two-lane roundabout that Caltrans has repeatedly demanded and will surely appeal a "temporary cap," whatever that is, on the size of the student body as an insufficient version of the camel's nose under the tent.

The truth is they are victims of their own intractability, as they were offered several other sites that would not have required a scaled-back student body or desecrated open space and existing neighborhoods. Like Oaks Christian, these sites would have allowed them to serve the entire "broader community" that they love to refer to without compromise.
Larry Brown
Agoura Hills