If you are against Heschel, why weren't you against Agoura Village?

I wonder how much Steve Casey and Larry Brown truly know of what's going on in the rest of the city or if they even care.

Mr. Casey stated that he was "mad as hell . . . (that) Zev Yaroslavsky has blatantly disrespected the concerns of the city of Agoura Hills . . . and has obviously decided that he is going to just shove this project down our throats. . . . I still can't believe how the county . . . (has) marginalized the city's position and ignored all valid concerns of its citizens for traffic, noise, safety . . . And yet, to our amazement, it keeps moving forward with all of its major flaws and problems unresolved."

Mr. Brown wants to know if "traffic officials (and) so-called fire experts . . . were Heschel's . . . paid professionals . . . hired for the purpose of giving favorable testimony to rebut experts who said the opposite for free."

Where were the two of you and the rest of the Old Agoura antigrowth, anti-traffic citizens when the Agoura Hills City Council did the exact same thing, using the exact same tactics, to shove Agoura Village down the throats of its citizens? Those of us who showed up and challenged our council members before they approved the illconceived traffic nightmare found out two things: Firstly, that the dog and pony show the council put on to make it look like they were really concerned with our input was a joke, as they had already made up their minds that the plan was going through. And secondly, that you can't fight city hall.

Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on which side of the Heschel argument you sit, the Agoura Hills City Council is about to learn that not even they can fight city hall, as the County Board of Supervisors is a bigger city hall than they are.

It shouldn't matter, because if you watched the tape of Mr. Yaroslavsky and King Kuperberg sparring, King Kuperberg kept referring to the city of Agoura Hills as "my city." I guess the rest of us and our opinions don't matter anyway. After all, it is his city, not ours.

When the smoke clears, it would appear that we're going to have gridlock everywhere in the city. And we have the likes of the Caseys and the Browns to blame because when you vote for incompetence, you shouldn't expect anything better.
Dan Crisafulli
Agoura Hills