Soka Density Is Real Concern

I live two miles from the Soka campus and I take exception to ALfred Balitzer’s letter Jan. 4 regarding neighbors backing the school.

There is overwhelming neighborhood opposition to the planned development of Soka University at the corner of Las Virgenes Road and Mulholland Highway. It doesn’t matter that it is Soka that is planning the development. It is the development of such density that the neighborhood overwhelmingly objects to.

Soka has complained that the planned density that the national park proposes would be 30,000 people per year, whereas their density would be 5,000 full-time students and staff members. However, when you look at it on a daily basis, the Park Service’s proposed density would be 100 per day and Soka would still be 5,000 per day.

KRISTINE A. SCHIPPER

Calabasas