Dear Editor,
I urge Cypress citizens to vote on Measure GG.
It is brought to us by the same people who brought us Measure L in 2012.
They promised us Senior Housing and Assisted Living, but instead proposed a 240 bay truck distribution center.
The Race Track is projected to run for another 10 years.
The time to evaluate the best use of the property would be when the track is scheduled to close, not now. We don’t know what the City will need in 10 years.
Dear Editor,
I urge Cypress citizens to vote on Measure GG.
It is brought to us by the same people who brought us Measure L in 2012.
They promised us Senior Housing and Assisted Living, but instead proposed a 240 bay truck distribution center.
The Race Track is projected to run for another 10 years.
The time to evaluate the best use of the property would be when the track is scheduled to close, not now. We don’t know what the City will need in 10 years.
Approving Measure GG now will only benefit the owners of the property, not the citizens of Cypress.
Cypress is one of the few cities without a Planning Commission, and the City Council, over several members and several years, has shown that it has neither the time nor the ability to protect the needs of their citizens in the best use of property.
That is the reason it was necessary for citizens to pass Measure D in 1989. If we approve Measure GG we will lose control over what might happen on that property, and we know we can’t trust the owners to act in anything but their own best interest.
We also know from past experience that our City Council can’t be depended upon to protect us from poor use of property.
Again, that’s why we had to pass Measure D.
If we pass Measure GG we don’t know what bad things may happen. If we vote against Measure GG, we know exactly what will happen, because we will still have zoning control of that property.
In a recent Press-Telegram interview, Dr. Edward Allred, the owner of the Race Track, was quoted as saying that he doesn’t think Measure GG will pass. I think we should show him that he is right.
Charles Milam
Cypress
