LETTERS

Friendly Fire

As you reported, the City of Calabasas is attempting to annex the small patch of land on which the Leonis Adobe and Sagebrush Cantina currently sit (“Proposed Annexation of Land Sparks Battle Between Cities,” Nov. 4 issue). However, as colorful as it sounded, this is not two gunslingers preparing to do “battle”; it is truly a case of two cities working together to achieve the best for their communities. The negotiations with Los Angeles have been amiable and professional.

Lesley Devine

Mayor, City of Calabasas

Zone Defense

Your article, “County Will Fight Special Tax Zones to Keep Its Share,” (Oct. 28 issue) missed the point on the county’s lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles. Los Angeles city is asking the taxpayers of the county’s other 87 cities and 137 unincorporated communities to subsidize its downtown project at hundreds of millions of dollars over the next 45 years. The county taxpayer’s suit asks the city to substantiate claims that a subsidized luxury hotel and retail-entertainment-sports complex including 30 acres of unblighted Staples parking lots is the cure for their downtown problem or even legal under redevelopment law.

Michael D. Antonovich

Los Angeles County Supervisor