Protect Our Unique Community
by Lisa De Paul-Snyder

Mission Viejo is unique because it was designed as a master-planned community, with a balance of homes, schools, churches, shopping areas, parks, recreational facilities and other essential quality-of-life benefits. Families moved here to share in the California Promise of Mission Viejo.

Now, that promise is being driven to extinction by city council members who have taken monies from developers and other special interests. Mission Viejo was never meant to be a metropolis with multistoried high-density housing, affordable housing stacked on top of shopping centers, daily traffic snarls and overcrowding everywhere you look, but that is exactly what the current council supports.

To stop the hyper-development and urbanization of our community, residents need strong and effective leaders who are civil and honest.

• We must elect council members who will:
• Fight all efforts to build new high-density affordable housing units
• Represent the residents, not the special interests of campaign contributors
• Do everything possible to minimize the harmful effects of illegal immigration on our schools, roads and community services

Remember to vote November 7.