ANTELOPE VALLEY: PUBLIC FORUM : LANDSCAPING WOES ARE CITY'S PROBLEM, NOT OURS.This is in regards to your Nov. 12 article, ``Areas seek revote on landscaping.'' I am a block captain on Rose Street in the Fiesta Homes area and I have been following this problem very closely. While I support the mayor in most of his plans for Palmdale Palmdale, city (1990 pop. 68,842), Los Angeles co., S Calif., in the irrigated Antelope Valley; a growing residential suburb of Los Angeles near Little Rock Creek where it forms Lake Palmdale Reservoir, inc. 1962. , I believe he is on the wrong side of this issue. Only 91 districts voted yes for the bloated bloat·ed adj. 1. Much bigger than desired: a bloated bureaucracy; a bloated budget. 2. Medicine Swollen or distended beyond normal size by fluid or gaseous material. landscaping fees. What followed was an organized attempt by the city to reverse this legitimate vote by the people of Palmdale. Obviously, there is a lot of money at stake for Palmdale. Unfortunately, the city failed to provide adequate landscape maintenance and charged ridiculous fees on top of this failure. In order to reverse the original vote, they threatened to shut the sprinkling system by October October: see month. . In reality, the water for the landscaping is shut off for the winter to avoid freezing freezing, change of a substance from the liquid to the solid state. The temperature at which freezing occurs for a pure crystalline solid is called the freezing point and is a characteristic of the particular substance. pipe damage. Another threat is that they would put out bids for private maintenance contractors for only those districts that voted ``yes'' on the first vote. I'm I'm Contraction of I am. Our Living Language Speakers of some scattered varieties of American English sometimes use I'm instead of I've or I have in present perfect constructions, as in sure that all of us want to provide for our landscaping, including the costs of the maintenance. The bottom line is that the city required this landscaping to be put in by the builders, then included the costs of the maintenance on the tax rolls. We voted ``no'' because the amount of that tax is totally unreasonable. Finally, since the city created this problem, it should provide a reasonable solution instead of trying to overturn a fair and legal voting action. Melvyn Theriault, Palmdale |
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