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On Dec. 12, residents submitted a citizens’ initiative to the ad hoc housing committee of Mission Viejo’s Planning Commission (now the City Council ad hoc housing committee). The initiative would allow our citizens the right to vote on all development projects where rezoning is required from commercial to mixed-use or residential. What better system is there to demonstrate democracy at its best? Mission Viejo is built out, and land is scarce with only commercial property left undeveloped. Give the citizens the right to say which building projects are permissible where rezoning is required. Like other critical measures in our city, the current council majority refuses to address this initiative. It will probably sit until after November's election without being agendized or otherwise advanced toward approval or disapproval. Our citizens are being left out of the process, and they need to be particularly aware of the problems when they vote in November. James Edward Woodin |
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