With so much being written about many years of low rainfall, drought conditions and water-use restrictions, I have to wonder where the planners were when all the developments were approved with strict open space and landscape requirements and making developers build large grass-covered community parks?

The issue here should be addressed to the state, our county, and city planners and managers.

When they approved all the development and began collecting the fees and taxes associated with development, and the use of the resources required to maintain these areas, they knew water supplies were a naturally occurring phenomena, cyclical and unpredictable.

Where was the planning?

Where was the resource management?

I once saw what I considered an offensive sign on the wall behind a city department counter that read “Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on our part.”

Turn around and read the writing that’s been on the wall for decades–right back at you, planners and managers.
Tim Daugherty
Newbury Park