By Ellen Vukovich
Reader and Sherman Oaks activist
Here's my prediction -- a full-scale EIR will be ordered as a compromise. What's another year to Home Depot?
By this time, Wendy Greuel will probably be our next Laura Chick - City Controller. That means the new Council Member will declare that there is nothing he/she can do to "stop" the project because Home Depot has worked with the (Sunland-Tujunga) community and mitigated its impacts to an "insignificant" level as per the EIR.
And, the last thing this City will jeopardize is its working relationship (read that as collecting more sales taxes, etc.) from Home Depot when facing its record bugetary shortfalls coupled with losing a multi-million dollar lawsuit.
My suggestion is that all residents of Council District 2 unite and find a candidate for Wendy's seat that will do their bidding. That's the only solution to all of the "Home Depots."
Ron Kaye is the former editor of the Los Angeles Daily News where he spent 23 years helping to make the newspaper the voice of the San Fernando Valley and fighting for a city government that serves the people and not special interests.
Twice in recent years, Los Angeles Magazine listed Kaye among the city’s most influential people, specifically in the area of politics. Kaye has been variously described in the media as the “accidental anarchist,” “the Patrick Henry of the San Fernando Valley” and a “passionate populist.” He is now committed to
carrying on his crusade for a greater Los Angeles as an ordinary citizen. Previously, Ron worked at the Los Angeles Herald Examiner,
Associated Press, Cleveland Plain Dealer and The Australian as well as papers
in Fairbanks, Alaska and Yakima, Wash. He also wrote for Newsweek magazine, The Guardian in London and the Naitonal Enquirer.
How about Ron Kayes?