Protect Quality of Life
Letter to the editor

Citizens of Mission Viejo don’t want a dramatic change for the city, but they want their quality of life protected. Our quality of life involves such basic issues as low-density housing, a sound budgetary basis for city government, strong police services, mobility for our seniors and infrastructure improvements.

Drastic changes for the city – such as a business zone overlay allowing residents to purchase lofts above businesses – creates many new challenges to our citizens’ quality of life. Besides the problem of children playing in parking lots instead of neighborhood parks, our city was not created by the Mission Viejo Company to be like cities in north Orange County. It was created as a low-density housing community for citizens who did not want to live in other cities. In fact, many of the residents who purchased homes from the Mission Viejo Company moved to Mission Viejo to escape the abovementioned problems. Their quality of life suffered and they wanted change.

Mission Viejo is a great place to live, and many citizens do not want their city government to be a sponsor for change that abrogates their property values or implements new future visions for the city. Such changes are contrary to why they moved to Mission Viejo in the first place.

James Edward Woodin
Mission Viejo