I\u2019ve had several interesting conversations with my young granddaughter where we\u2019ve talked about the upcoming election and the two competing ballot measures regarding Lake Oswego\u2019s natural parks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Recently, after talking about the issues once again, she looked up at me and said, \u201cGrandpa, it\u2019s really about the planet you guys are leaving me, and just what kind of future all my friends and I are really going to have.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You could go round and round about the facts all day, but in the end, after all the smoke clears and you come up out of the weeds, you need to look around and ask yourselves why both the Sierra Club and Oregon Wild endorsed the citizen sponsored measure and not the city\u2019s. Or to put it another way, why did one of the area\u2019s biggest developers, Renaissance Homes \u2014 someone you wouldn\u2019t want to be around if you were a tree, contribute $10,000 to the city\u2019s campaign, but not a single penny to help get the citizen measure on the ballot?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When you think about it that way you start wondering if a vote for the city\u2019s measure is kind of like giving them the key to the tool shed where all the chainsaws are locked up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m not willing to give them the key. That\u2019s why I\u2019m voting yes on Measure 3-568 and no on Measure 3-575.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pierre Zubrinsky
Lake Oswego<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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With Pierre Zubrinsky’s permission, we have reproduced his Reader Letter for your convenience and for those who don’t subscribe to the LO Review<\/em>. Read his letter in the LO Review here: <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n