New Evacuation Warning

And yet the county is about to approve over 50 huge mansions and assorted structures in that very area. How clever our current Board of Supervisors majority and the Planning Commision. Never let facts or reality sway their unswerving dedication to development. Got to get those tax dollars. Their greed is only exceeded by their stupidity.

If you feel so moved, please take a moment to go to

http://www.thanksgapfirefighters.com

and submit a message of gratitude for the firefighters who have been working this fire.

Thanks.

To Noletaman: To me stupidity is to imply that one should ever build in an area that could conceivably be threatened by fire. There have been over a dozen communities threatened by this fire, including my own. Are we idiots for not bulldozing those communities immediately? I'm all for coastal preservation, but I wonder if yours is the weakest argument ever made for such preservation, or just top three. In any case I don't see why you and others feel that this fire should have any bearing on the future of the Gaviota Coast. This is a time to stand by the thousands of residents and firefighters who have been affected by this event, not to plug your political views. And if you must, at least make a decent argument.

3Dom, Remember all those high end homes burned in the Paint Fire. Or those in the Oakland Fire, or those in the Malibu Fires, or those in San Diego.....I could go on. They all had one thing in common. Large houses, much landscaping and built in or near the brush. The Naples subdivision is now proposed to be built in the back foothills of Dos Pueblos Ranch. It may be as many as 100 large mansions. It will be a hellish scene when the next fire moves through that area. If you want to make life easier for our hard working firefighters don't let the County allow a new batch of rural homes in a fire prone setting. It isn't fair to fire fighters. And it sure as hell is not political to say so, it is just common sense.