Dear Editor,
Dear Editor,
Tuesday night’s Cypress Council Meeting had some interesting speakers: Doug Bailey spoke about “one page” Measure D and how the Council has, through the years, defended the residents of Cypress relative to it. He pointed out that only the residents of Cypress have the power to change zoning relative to Measure L and Measure A. What he failed to mention was how the voters were misled by the signature gatherers of Measure L into believing that Senior Assisted Living would be built on the re-zoned land. I dunno, I guess as a politician it’s not polite to throw in our faces how stupid we were not to read the 150 plus attorney written pages of “gobbledygook” that one of the other speakers printed out and held up as a point, “who’s going to read this”?
I have to believe that it’s because we were duped with Measure L that the speaker giving away free CD’s of a software file that he used to print single letters on a full sheet of paper spelling out “no on A” so that they can be taped to a garage door for all to see, spent his time and money to oppose Measure A.
Probably the most poignant speaker suggested, take a chill pill. “That land is not going away, it’ll be there tomorrow”, what we need is a Planning Commission to develop a Master Plan and determine the best use of that land.
I believe that Cypress residents would be better served having a Planning Commission but it’s obviously too late for Measure L. Is it too late for Measure A? Maybe not if A is defeated. But with guarantees of only single family residences being built on the back nine of the old golf course I can’t think of anything that would serve Cypress any better than that! Unless of course somebody has some really deep pockets to turn it into and maintain it as a park. I don’t see anybody coming forward writing checks for that and I don’t feel that the owner of the property should be handcuffed as to what he can or cannot do with his property. I really rather doubt that anybody reading this would like to be told what they can or cannot do with “their” property. Where Measure L is concerned it’s unfortunate that the land owner chose to use deceptive measures in order to get that land rezoned and though Measure A language was essentially the same I truly believe that his intention all along has been to build homes on this land or he would not have voluntarily offered up deed restrictions.
There’s a lot of dissention about Measure A most of it being drawn out by fear, fear that another “Prologis” is lurking to turn it into a “Toxic Truck Terminal.” This won’t and never will happen if Measure A passes. If Measure A is defeated who knows what the future holds?
Bob Render
Cypress