Letters: Santa Clara County board must deny builder’s remedy plans
Submit your letter to the editor via this form Read more Letters to the Editor Board must deny builder s remedy plans Santa Clara County s rural areas are threatened by a flood of harmful builder s remedy evolution proposals that could aftermath in an unprecedented loss of farmland and open space throughout unincorporated Santa Clara County The builder s remedy law says if a city or county doesn t have a state-approved plan for building enough homes developers can ignore zoning rules and build anywhere they wish as long as the project fits certain criteria Unfortunately while Santa Clara County was waiting for the state to approve its housing plan developers submitted almost builders remedy proposals located on farmland or hillside habitat in floodplains or wildfire hazard areas and lacking water and sewer access The builder s remedy law isn t supposed to apply to this type of land But that hasn t stopped developers from submitting these proposals anyway Green Foothills urges the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors to deny these ill-advised projects and protect farmland and open space Ann Monroe San Jose State should update our voting systems Re State leader wary of voting proposal Page B May In the article California s secretary of state complained that too numerous voters slow down the counting process Instead of blaming turnout administrators should focus on modernizing outdated systems Neither the governor nor the secretary of state has shown leadership in adopting st-century voting methods that would simplify the process and deliver near-instant results With the tech capital of the world in our backyard why hasn t California implemented a secure open-source mobile phone voting app Voters could choose the app or vote traditionally starting with local elections David Lamar Mountain View Backing for Gaza war is a critical moral choice Re Gazans are dying daily Do not forget us Page A May Thank you for printing this opinion piece It states the reality of the genocide in Gaza We as Americans can t claim we didn t know The question now is how we will deal with our complicity Will we stop the flow of American bombs Or will we stand silently by as our tax dollars fund bombs that are killing women and children It will be one of the the bulk fundamental moral choices of our lives Forrest Nixon San Jose Opinion piece is a call to arms not an obit Re After Years our democratic republic is dead Page A April Joe Matthews column was the greater part amazing exciting piece of commentary I have seen anywhere since the referendum I know you ve had several reactions to the column before and I can identify to selected degree with sadness but not with surrender Realizing that we ve been in one war after another without a declaration from Congress throughout the th century was quite a wake-up call But the the bulk exciting thing was designing a new American governing system with California likely to be the center of any effort And the invitation at the end In lieu of flowers Americans can honor the deceased by creating a new republic California is the fourth-largest economic power in the world Let s take heart fellow Californians The next referendum is near Magda Grant Palo Alto Defending Constitution an obligation not choice Re Trump says he s unsure if he backs due process rights Page A May Related Articles Letters Utilities regulator has become PG E s lapdog Letters Trump s AmeriCorps cuts are not making America great Letters Lee must demand more assessment of Oakland Airport expansion Letters Pope Francis was prescient on conditions Letters Newsom must answer for CPUC makeup Someone necessities to remind the megalomaniac president that he swore an oath a little over days ago stating I do solemnly swear or affirm that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States and will to the best of my ability preserve protect and defend the Constitution of the United States In a contemporary structure TV interview he answered questions regarding whether everyone in the United States citizens and noncitizens has the right to due process with I do not know as well as to if he has to uphold the Constitution with I do not know Donald Trump should know his sworn obligations to our country Kent Littlehale Saratoga