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Saturday, 26 January 2008 |
West Park would make us pay
EDITOR,
The article “County, developer submit bond application” in the Jan. 19 issue of the Irrigator contained an erroneous and understated number of projected daily vehicle trips generated by the proposed West Park LLC project in Crows Landing at buildout.
The correct number is more than 141,000, according to a study by TJKM Transportation Consultants, not the 14,827 trips the article stated. That is a difference of more than 126,000 trips per day! That is more than three times the present 40,000-plus trips per day on Interstate 5, just west of Patterson.
The article also says the application asserts the project would reduce regional pollution by many tons. Where in the region would the reduction occur? Actually, it would primarily occur along the Altamont Pass and in the Bay Area, transferring a great deal of pollution to the West Side. The same study used for the projected daily trips also projected a huge need for road expansion on almost all the roads leading in and out of the project because of the great increase in traffic.
Guess who will pay for all that road expansion and maintenance? You and I, Stanislaus County taxpayers! West Park also is asking for multiple millions in state infrastructure, transportation and pollution-reduction bond money just to get this project implemented. We’ll pay for that, too! West Park and its investors are counting on making many more millions, even billions, from this massively public-financed project. There will be many years of public subsidies related to and caused by this project.
Sandra McDowell, Patterson
A menopausal president?
EDITOR,
From firsthand experience, I know what happens to your body and mind when you go through the change of life. It is a scary thought that the voters might put a menopausal woman in the White House with her finger so close to the nuclear button.
The national news media does not provide the voters with her past records of her hatred of the men and women in the military, her left-wing agendas and her anti-family voting records. Voters, you need to educate yourselves and not listen to what the media only wants you to hear. They hide under the First Amendment, because we do not make them accountable for distorting the truth.
I would like to see a woman in office, but Hillary Clinton is not that woman.
Pat Maisetti, Madera
Look for common ground
EDITOR,
I am tired of reading about West Park week after week. Why can’t the city officials just get together and work something out with the developer? It looks like the project will be approved, so why don’t we get something out of it?
We need more jobs, that’s a given. What is the developer willing to give us? I bet that we can find some common ground and a win-win solution. Nobody will get 100 percent of everything, but perhaps Patterson can make a deal that helps the city.
Lakhvinder Singh, Patterson
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