I was taken aback by the ugly tone and cruel sarcasm of Jim Weller’s Guest Commentary (Dec. 12) on the mobile home residents who have found themselves habited in the rail corridor ROW through no misassessment of their own. Let’s all take a deep breath. As evidenced by the mobile home situations, it appears that […]
Jim Weller’s Dec. 13 condescending response to Jean Brocklebank’s Dec. 7 Guest Commentary on mobile home residents that will be displaced by the Ultimate Trail Plan states “facts” that just aren’t true. Measure D’s defeat in 2022 literally meant that Greenway’s proposed changes to the county’s Transportation Element of the General Plan were not adopted. […]
In his Dec. 13 Guest Commentary, “A response on Ultimate Trail encroachments,” Jim Weller writes “The Ultimate rail-and-trail option is definitely preferred among elected officials and policy makers.” He leaves out in his own municipality of Capitola they are not building the Ultimate Trail, rather an Interim one, that loops through the lower village […]
"First, the Greenway cri de couer was about saving the lives of innocent invasive trees in the railroad corridor, as if they weren’t public property to be removed if needed," writes Jim Weller in a Guest Commentary. "Now, it’s about the horrors of encroaching buildings being removed from public property."