ENOUGH DEVELOPMENT; LET'S USE WHAT WE HAVE.

I can't get over the City Council.

First, they spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to fight the federal- government-approved gravel pit that will send trucks down the freeways.

Then, they refused to allow the developer who bought the old Bermite property to clean the area one phase at a time.

But now, they intend to approve the removal of hundreds of tons of the soil from the Centre Point Business Park, next to the Bermite site, to bring to the center of town for Auto Row, according to the Daily News story about 50 truckloads an hour.

They carry on about how much tax revenue they, not we, get from Auto Row. But apparently none of them have turned the corner of Valencia Boulevard and Magic Mountain Parkway to see all the nice relatively flat ground that would handle two or three new auto dealers along the Magic Mountain Parkway.

The taxes generated from the auto dealers, however, can't be that big of a deal when the same council members are fighting Galpin Motor's desire to build on a now-vacant ranch area in Newhall. This is still a part of Santa Clarita and would generate a lot of additional taxes since Galpin has five or six different lines of cars it could sell.

- Clayton F. Meyer

Santa Clarita