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Speak Out
Residents trying to preserve enclave
I'd like to respond to The Campbell Reporter's coverage of the City of Campbell meeting on October 4 regarding changes to our neighborhood ("Revisions to San Tomas area plan miff residents," Oct. 6).
The reporter went away with impressions--not facts. She took down some quotes and called that reporting. As such, she did a disservice to the City of Campbell, the residents of the San Tomas Neighborhood and even to your usually fine newspaper.
The San Tomas Neighborhood Plan was put together by dedicated, well-informed and long-term residents of the area in 1993. Its basic tenet is to preserve the semi-rural character of the area. The city accepted that plan.
The city planners have devised a plan of their own that allows untethered license to change that plan everytime they build a new street. Though the changes to the plan for the present are "minor," the cumulative changes are major. Why are the powers-that-be so intent on changing something that the folks clearly don't want changed?
Please realize that we residents of Campbell are fighting for an enclave of sanity in an increasingly insane Silicon Valley.
Laura Bernell
San Tomas Neighborhood Association
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Campbell, California
