Opposed to annexation plan




In an almost sociopathic fervor, Calabasas officials have offered a pitch in which they claim to be good stewards to the environment, which ignores having turned most of their own city into Encino-West and a ridgeline ordinance that came into being only after there were no more ridgelines left to save and were lined with cookie cutter McMansions elbow to elbow where the ridgelines used to be, like some episode of “Star Trek.”

Calabasas loves to stress “the previously warm relationship between Agoura Hills and Calabasas,” but the grim reality is Calabasas repeatedly stabbed Agoura in the back and refused to support us in protecting our old town section for more than a decade of Heschel hearings, in which their concern for being seen as unfriendly to a particular segment of the community was obvious.

Over these many years, they demonstrated a wanton disregard for the wishes of Agoura Hills, which, in fact, has typified our relationship.

When Tony Coroalles plays the “hypocrisy card,” he is intentionally obfuscating the facts. Liberty Canyon residents fought for conditions for that corner, which directly impact us, not Calabasas residents, and it is adjacent to our city, not theirs.

Secondly, the project on the northwest corner that he sites predates any of this by years, so while it is unfortunate, it is not comparable.

Having dumped their entire industrial section on our side of the hill and maintaining their side as residential, the implications for their future behavior are threatening.

Now Coroalles twiddles his thumbs while planning multiple hotels in sensitive environmental locations so they can expand their Las Vegas-meets- Disneyland atmosphere like a communicable disease.

Enough is enough. James Bozajian is dead wrong. There are legal reasons to stop this annexation, the most obviously being the first criterion of LAFCO, which is “orderly development,” not unbridled greed.

Larry Brown
Agoura

Editor’s note: The “hypocrisy” mentioned by Coroalles is that even as residents such as Brown are bemoaning the Calabasas annexation in Liberty Canyon for fear of its overdevelopment, their own City of Agoura Hills is developing a large office project at the same location.



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