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Ensuring access Re “Up in smoke” (Newslines, by Ashiah Scharaga, Dec. 5): One a recent morning, I ran into a former Bidwell Park and Playground commissioner who expressed disappointment with my amendment to a motion on Upper Park Road, which was passed 6-1 by the City Council, allowing community access to the very end of the road. The person pointed out that the commission had spent a lot of time deliberating and crafting its proposal calling for the road to be closed at Salmon Hole. I understand. I pointed out that the Park Commission has a slightly different mission than the council: “to preserve and enhance … Bidwell Park.” My personal perspective is that while the council also cares greatly about preserving the park, we have an implicit responsibility to assure that all citizens have access to the city’s publicly owned resources. Sometimes that means
compromise—to allow road’s-end access two days a week. We have a thoughtful, proactive and dedicated Park Commission. Those who sit on it made the right proposal based on their mission. All Chico citizens have a right to experience all of their park, but many do not have the ability to walk or bike in order to do so. I believe the council made the right decision based on our responsibility to also consider all community members. Scott Huber Chico
Editor’s note: The author is a member of the Chico City Council.
PG&E’s faiult, not ours Re “Tips from Down Under” (Greenways, by Julie Cart, Dec. 5): While reading this piece, it was obvious that all the wisdom of solving the crisis was directed at fire victims, not those who caused of the fire. PG&E has spent the last few years not doing its job.
Yearly inspections of power lines, transformers, etc., were not done. Paradise is a retirement community. You could educate, cajole, mandate all the emergency procedures known to humankind and the 80-year-olds in town could perform none of it. As of now, 16,000 residences burned down, 700 businesses burned, 85 people are dead, and not a single PG&E employee has gone to jail—a fate I most certainly would have suffered had I started the conflagration. President Trump showed up, called Paradise “Pleasure” and suggested that California needs to rake the forests like Finland does, even though the fire began in Trump’s national forest. He brought no rakes, nor did he offer money to train Paradisians on the proper use of rakes. He also did not give PG&E new mandates for controlling the company’s facilities as guests in LETTERS c o n t i n u e d
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