 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
||||||
|
|||||||||||||
|
Home Resource Center In the News Home Greenbelt Alliance in the News |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
|
|
Greenbelt Alliance In the News
November 2, 2005 'Yes on L' signs in Brentwood deceptive, foes say By Sarah Jane TribbleBRENTWOOD - Standing on the threshold of Brentwood's current urban limit line, a small hodgepodge of environmentalists, farmers and subdivision dwellers gathered Tuesday to prepare for a final push against Measure L. While they all have different reasons for opposing the measure, they agreed that signs promoting Measure L as controlled growth were deceptive. "I am seeing a sign all over the town of Brentwood that says 'Yes on L draw the line to limit growth,'" said Kathy Griffin, an 8-year city resident who lives in Shadow Lakes near the western edge of Brentwood. "(The measure) doesn't, and the fact is it expands the city limits to allow for 2,800 more homes in addition to the 5,400 that are already in the pipeline." Residents of this fast-growing community will vote on the developer-sponsored growth boundary proposal Tuesday. The Nunn family, longtime farmers and builders, have spent more than $500,000 through different organizations to fund the Measure L campaign. If approved, the measure would enlarge the growth boundary around Brentwood in four places by about 2,100 acres. Eight hundred acres would remain open space, and the rest would support about 2,800 new homes. Bob Nunn said Tuesday that the measure's overwhelming support by local leaders as well as his family's reputation should answer any doubt about the validity of the signs. "We've worked very hard to do things beneficial to our community, and that should answer any reasonable person's questions about the integrity of Measure L," he said. Nunn also said traffic within Brentwood would not be worsened by the measure's approval. Measure L supporters will send out flyers in the coming week, which will include testimonials from local leaders, and continue knocking on doors throughout the community to win support, Nunn said. "We've had no reason to change those tactics based on, quite frankly, the minimal opposition we've had comparative to other cities," Nunn added. Meanwhile, the opponents have their own plans for the coming week. More than 6,000 postcards will be mailed to registered voters, and automated phone calls will go to thousands of households, said David Reid, representative with the Greenbelt Alliance environmental group. In addition, the group will hand out 1,500 multicolored flyers asking citizens not to rush a decision on the community's growth boundaries. "Are we tilting at windmills?" asked Reid. "No. There are a lot of voters who see through the deception of this campaign. Our goal in the next week is to get the word out to more."
### |
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
