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Individuals’s Park exhibits
utility of CEQA
Re: “Newsom blasts CEQA. What's it and why does it matter?” (Web page A1, March 6).
As Ethan Varian describes in his March 6 article about CEQA and scholar housing, the California Environmental High quality Act has a protracted, nuanced historical past. This statute has been efficiently revised to streamline inexpensive housing and transit tasks. CEQA has additionally survived repeated makes an attempt by massive enterprise to intestine its important protections. The Act stays a goal exactly as a result of it's so efficient at forcing builders to research the environmental impacts of their tasks and mitigate that hurt.
Within the UC Berkeley case, CEQA highlighted the college’s grave mistake in permitting its scholar enrollment to blow up with none satisfactory plan to deal with the brand new college students. The latest courtroom ruling requires UC to research the impacts of its plans on the neighborhood and to discover all choices earlier than constructing on a historic public park. In different phrases, the college should adjust to state environmental legal guidelines similar to some other public company.
Mike Ferreira
Moss Seashore
County govt bears
guilt with McCorquodale
Re: “Author to maintain $1M despite plagiarism” (Web page B1, March 14).
The concept that Santa Clara County Government Jeff Smith selected to not pursue restoration of the cash paid to Jean McCorquodale is nauseating. Most criminals would by no means be prosecuted if the precise prices of working the courts and the jails have been a part of the consideration.
This girl engaged in unprofessional, unethical and doubtless unlawful conduct, however she is allowed to revenue from this contract? I believe not, this matter needs to be pursued civilly, and criminally as effectively if attainable; even when it takes one million dollars to get well one million dollars.
Please proceed to comply with this case and shine a lightweight on this reprehensible conduct on the a part of Jean McCoquodale in addition to Jeff Smith.
Steven Rhodes
Martinez
Gun management wanted
to maintain colleges protected
Re: “Duplicate gun prompts West Valley School lockdown” (Web page B2, March 14).
Gun violence has develop into so frequent for as we speak’s technology that they've develop into numb to listening to a couple of taking pictures. We're all the time taught how harmful a gun could be however proceed to haven't any management over who's allowed to personal one.
We're three months into the yr and the energetic gun lockdown at West Valley School is as soon as once more including to the variety of college firearm incidents, together with shootings, in 2023. At what level do all of the deaths and accidents develop into an excessive amount of and we declare a cease to gun violence?
Gun management is closely wanted if we hope to maintain a neighborhood the place we will let youngsters go to high school with out bulletproof backpacks and the worry of shedding what little lives they've lived. Beginning small is step one we have to make the change we wish to see.
Future Chau
San Jose
Excessive-earners on hook
for ‘free’ well being care
The Mercury Information generally shows a slightly refined sense of irony, as evidenced by the juxtaposition of as we speak’s front-page story about Medicare and Melissa Mendoza Lucena’s letter to the editor relating to well being care (“Let’s take steps towards free well being care” Web page A6, March 8).
On the entrance web page, in daring sort, your paper proclaims “Biden: Tax hike to fund Medicare,” (Web page A1, March 8) and informs the reader that the “plan would assist to increase the insurance coverage program’s solvency by 25 years,” and that our president is “primarily asking those that’ve fared the most effective within the financial system to subsidize the remainder of the inhabitants.”
Within the letter to the editor, the author notes that “America must at the least begin stepping in the direction of free well being care, even when it’s small.”
One wonders why, if we needs to be transferring towards “free” well being care, does the federal government want ever-increasing taxes from us to fund it.
Pat Waite
San Jose
Gun security ought to
be everybody’s purpose
Re: “Let’s speak about weapons and primary security precautions” (Web page A6, March 14).
I used to be inspired to see the phrases “first educate, then encourage” about gun security.
As an authorized vary security officer I instruct gun security. I'm additionally a licensed flight teacher.
I've been round firearms my complete lifetime of 81 years and by no means pointed a firearm at any particular person, even within the navy Coast Guard whereas boarding different vessels for legislation enforcement inspection.
Coaching is important to security in all the pieces we take as a right.
Studying to fly isn’t troublesome. Studying to be protected is the opposite 90% of coaching. Firearms fall into that realm of endeavors.
Pay attention to all issues of safety, and keep proficiency, upkeep and liabilities of gun possession. The protection of others — household, associates, the general public and your self — is the final word purpose.
Lawrence Townsend
San Jose