Although it's reassuring that the Thousand Oaks City Council voted 4-1 not to allow Home Depot to rebuild at the former Kmart at Hampshire and Foothill, I think the "Home Depot project shot down at 11th hour after long battle" article in the April 2 Thousand Oaks Acorn took a comment I made out of context.

I did tell the City Council that if they were going to approve Home Depot, they should at least do it honestly. I agreed with Mark Sellers, a former Thousand Oaks city attorney, who explained that approving Home Depot at the Kmart site set a new precedent for allowing any number of big box stores into other C-1 zones within the city in the future.

However, I want to clarify that there isn't one cell in my body that feels that a big box such as Home Depot belongs at the former Kmart site, nestled between a cancer center, apartments, a preschool/daycare center, condominiums, single family homes, a senior healthcare residence and a few businesses.

I don't at all think Home Depot should apply to rezone this parcel to C-3.

I believe they should sublease it to another developer for an appropriate C1 use, hopefully using the existing building instead of sending more waste to our landfills. Janet Miller Wall Thousand Oaks

The writer is a former city planning commissioner.