What is Heschel's 'fair share'?

I would like to draw everyone's attention to an issue that gets glossed over quite a bit: paying the bill or what's referred to in land development as "fair share." Yes, Heschel West Day School, if approved, will ultimately add another 2,600 vehicle trips per day to an already overburdened intersection which supplies access to Agoura High and three preschools.

Yes, they would be occupying a wildlife and wildfire corridor. Yes, the impacts of the school would far exceed the North Area Plan's designated one home per five-acre zoning impacts to the land and surrounding community of Old Agoura.

However, all of Agoura Hills' residents will have to share the burden of cost to rebuild an intersection for a single private development outside the city boundaries. Neither the one-lane roundabout nor signalized intersections proposed will work. Heschel's "fair share" of infrastructure costs has not been defined. A two-lane roundabout will occupy an enormous amount of real estate and potentially force the city to use eminent domain to acquire it.

Money spent here will decrease the city's ability to supply the residents of Agoura Hills in the future with things we love: open space, parks, public school support and community services and enhancements. Now who's getting their "fair share"?
Cyrena Nouzille
Agoura Hills