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Letters
City Hall can't take credit for NASA's plans
In your July 14 front page story about congressional approval of a new $14 million hangar from the California Air National Guard at Moffett Field, you quote Sunnyvale Vice Mayor Pat Vorreiter as contending that keeping Moffett Field "federal....minimizes the possibility that Moffett Airfield might become a commercial airport."
This was the same rationale Ms. Vorreiter and other Sunnyvale city councilmembers offered three years ago when they supported NASA's plan for pre-dawn commercial air cargo operations at Moffett, and then refused to allow Sunnyvale voters to express their opinion on the subject. If the Mountain View City Council had not permitted a vote, NASA would have likely obtained congressional approval, and we would be waking up each morning at 4:30 to the roar of jets.
The truth is any activity at Moffett that maintains the airstrip also maintains the threat of expanded air traffic. That includes the new hangar.
Fortunately, no thanks to Ms. Vorreiter, NASA has plans for Moffett that are generally incompatible with a major airport there.
NASA is bringing in academics to help in the search for intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe--finding so little here.
Gary Wesley
Mountain View
Walk in Washington Park
Local tourist afoot...On a morning walk the cool air feels good on my face. Along the way there are home gardens, suburban scenery to see. Pausing, I breathe deeply, enjoying the perfumes of jasmine and roses, a lemon tree and other fragrances. There on a stretch of sidewalk are some colorful chalk drawings by small artists. At another address, fallen tree blossoms of purple hue carpet my way. In the trees there is a gathering of birds peeping, chirping and warbling to the skies. Reaching Washington Park, I see the familiar grove of sturdy and graceful trees, spreading oaks and tall redwoods. In their presence, I navigate curved pebbly pathways alongside green sunlit meadows. Again, this walker has ventured into the "other" Sunnyvale. Small delights are grand.
Robert Thoen
Sunnyvale
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Sunnyvale, California Since 1994
