Project Would Provide Jobs

At the spirited hearing Monday in Lake View Terrace concerning the Big Tujunga Wash golf course project, the number of those who supported the project was far more than the turnout of professional naysayers.

I have lived here 26 years, and long before I arrived, whenever there was a proposal to develop the Wash, the cry was heard: “We must buy it for the public good.” It didn’t happen. Priority-wise, it had a below-zero rating, for good reason.

The 350 or so acres planned for the golf course are sandwiched between the Hansen Dam Recreation Area and the Angeles National Forest. The public lands surrounding this golf course project already equal every square inch of the city of Los Angeles, and more.

Sunland-Tujunga needs this $40-million project. It needs the jobs. And it is time people who own private property have a reasonable chance to use it. The government, which now owns so much of California, cannot own all of it.

JIM PETERSON, Sunland