Agoura Village - We Who Care

Received in the mail the news the Supreme Court did not take the case. Looking back, it should have been no surprise for a few reasons. 1) Public Opinion. The truth of the matter is the vast majority of people just don't seem to care 2) A woman representing herself as a Private Attorney General enforcing the Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA"). Gone are the days of Abraham Lincoln teaching himself how to be a lawyer and succeeding. The woman part, I really felt it had no bearing until I suffered being in hostile courtrooms getting yelled at by judges for defending the case. That cross look. Yelling, angry faces for no reason. They simply did not want people, especially women, coming into their courtroom acting like a lawyer convincing them of anything.

What gave me some hope was my win in Altmann v. The City of Agoura Hills City Council BS104251 2007. Judge Chalfant was and is an honest, decent judge. Yes, the City did have to go back and actually study the endangered species they want to kill for their supposed greater good, and yes, they will have to replant some of them. That is the only victory. The case in Altmann II BS118229 was equally as sound if not moreso, if one actually studies the law, the 70s case law behind creating CEQA, and takes into consideration the actual wording of the law, and the sheer compound danger of a million square feet of development and three hundred homes in a zone 4 fire hazard area (most hazardous) built around Kanan Highway and Agoura Road.

To all the supporters of stopping the all-out disaster presently called Agoura Village, thank you so much for your money, time, and kind thoughts. I'm truly sorry we (I) failed. It is a true agony to me to see our town be swept into some hideously overdeveloped major brand-stamped non-descript place, like so many "cities" corrupted by short-term greed. It is a blueprint for urban sprawl and decay. More painstaking is the impending environmental crisis of yet another peaceful, life-giving environment lost. This I am either plagued or blessed to grieve on a very intimate basis.

There is hope; there is always hope. Maybe one "Earth Day" when "people" stop and reflect on what we are actually doing, they will realize our own home is being destroyed bit by bit, day by day, hour by hour. Finally they will "wake up" and take actions within their own power to stop this unconscious, mindless, heartless, soulless destruction.

The Petition for Review was revised, edited, and in short, made much better than the copy I had previously posted. If you would like to read it, the link is on a previous entry on this blog.