Agoura Village vs. Heschel West

I would like to add a few thoughts to Laila Biscaldi's very kind words about me.

Dan Crisafulli's comparison between Agoura Village and the Heschel West project ignores virtually every salient fact to be reckoned.

Agoura Village will benefit the entire citizenry of Agoura Hills, versus Heschel, which will serve only a select few.

Agoura Village is commercially zoned private land that otherwise would have been developed at much greater density, versus Heschel, which was never zoned for Heschel's purposes and is zoned for far less density than Heschel intends.

Agoura Village will provide much needed retail, which will contribute handsomely to the tax base of Agoura Hills for future improvements, versus Heschel, which will not only not contribute but asks that the city provide a fortune in mitigation that will deprive Agoura Hills of future improvements.

Agoura Village is in a nonresidential commercial neighborhood, versus Heschel, which is residential and rural, adjacent to National Park, sensitive habitat and in the path of the wildlife corridor which will impede the biodiversity of the Santa Monica Mountains into perpetuity.

I could easily add to this list of substantive differences that render Mr. Crisafulli's analogy meaningless, but the bottom line is that the only thing these two projects have in common is that they will generate cars. Larry Brown Agoura Hills