Miffed at Agoura development




The progress on the Agoura- Cornell Road project is disconcerting in that local government seems to have rubber-stamped a project with little or no mandate from its constituency.

I ask for a public referendum on rejecting or approving the Cornerstone development by popular vote.

I’d suggest also to kill two birds with one stone and vote for the recall of our self-serving administration at the same time.

There has been not a word on the project’s efforts to diminish its heavy footprint on our local environment. Please remember one of the proponents saying in this paper, “they’re just plants.”

Have the Cornerstone developers planned for solar-power utilization, gray water conversion, rainwater capture? They are planning on wiping out a significant part of our hillside and native trees plus whatever else wildlife subsists upon it.

The Hilton building on Agoura Road is a true marker for responsibility. I’m sure they give back to the grid with their solar panels. The nurturing of wildflowers and native flora by the road is gorgeous. I’m sure its ingenious construction will keep it green in the summer heat.

In addition, Agoura Road serves as an artery for local and visiting recreation—biking, running, etc.—that will be disrupted and negatively impacted. To wit, the eyesore at Driver and Cheseboro that eliminated safe biking and running for some time.

When people say environment we think of forests and oceans but people are an environment, too.

Maybe as a darker and unsubstantiated note, and I don’t want to imply, but one local restaurateur with several nearby properties may profit from such a development as Cornell represents.

It needs to be stressed that transparency starts here. Since we seemingly have little say in a D.C. regime hell-bent on reversing all prior initiatives on ecology, climate change, etc., let’s at least take care of our own backyard.

Randall Kennedy
Agoura Hills



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