Gathered by Richard Lieberman
I am an outspoken opponent of the proposed Regent Properties development on the Ventura hillside. If you visit our Facebook Page www.facebook.com/VenturaHillsideNeighbors you will see more than 8,400 followers. It is the largest community Facebook page in the City indicating widespread community concern for this issue. There you will find thousands of comments. Yes, some are a bit mindless as you would expect. But, many, if not most, are very well spoken and some are surprisingly insightful. Nick Bonge
City council: the Hillside Management program is a well thought out, hard worked, program. Your tenure in city govt is very short lived. Please consider carefully your position in this issue. What are your motivations? Please do not obliterate a very well formulated plan that took many years of negotiating and hard work.
Ron Van Rossum
Ventura City Council must deny the Regents proposal…there is no need to place luxury homes in our community
Debra Myrent
Burke Hazards Report: Let me begin with Mr. Burke’s report. It appears to be put together from readily available public information that speaks to potentialities, not actualities. I’m no expert, but it seems to me that this type of work should be performed based on actual studies of the soils on the property.
J. Boomer Butler CPA
55 homes is not 300 multi-units and to simply take the position of “nothing” is acceptable or workable is unrealistic and begs for a future of lawsuits.”
Greg Daniels
As a resident of Ventura, I utilize social media quite a bit to monitor local issues. I have been watching the Facebook page and online petition from the group; Neighbors for the Ventura Hillside. I’m no expert but it’s clear to me that the neighbors who oppose the proposed executive house project are trying to make it seem like there are a lot more people against this development than there really are.
Terry Davis
I have heard some people say that “we shouldn’t develop the hillsides any further.” I disagree with those people. This project will actually define the boundary, where no further building can be done.
Phil Foster Ranger
A project like this would not only provide homes for a neglected market, but would also generate revenues to help balance the city budget and could even provide enhanced services to our residents.
Don Henniger
This property has been zoned residential for many years and I believe the owners have a right to develop their own property.
Bill Kracht
I am a native Venturan and a business owner in Ventura for 16 years. I am completely in favor of the La Viera development and I am so pleased that Regent Properties has stayed the course in trying to bring this well planned project to our city despite the loud opposition of a relatively small group of neighbors.”
Melody Oleary-Namikas
