Maintain high quality – vote Yes on F
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Editor:

Yes on Measure F means Brentwood gets to control quality and design of any future projects. Rather than give this power to the county or Antioch, Measure F lets us decide.

Yes on F would protect Brentwood by extending our border to Deer Valley and keeping Antioch at bay. It does so while providing local jobs, putting Brentwood kids in Brentwood schools, helping to provide improved roads, working to ensure school and community safety, and improving our home values.

If the opponents of Measure F are really concerned about our city, they should be spending their time and efforts at the Planning Commission and City Council, opposing efforts by some developers to lower the quality of construction and reduce amenities for our city. Brentwood has weathered the economic storm better than most because of the high standards we have insisted upon. Let’s not let anyone change that.

Concerned citizens should insist that any future housing not compromise building and design standards. Measure F gives Brentwood the power to help maintain high quality standards. Our focus should be on quality. Protect Brentwood. Vote Yes on Measure F to ensure Brentwood control and to protect our future home values.

Peter and Veronica Charitou, Brentwood

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GMCGriffin
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May 27, 2010
You say high quality building? Have you read the actual development plan and the benefits they afford themselves in Exhibit K. High quality you say, with their so-called Executive Lot that can be as small as 8,000 square feet - mine's 7,400 in a modest area, 16 years old. Then, up to ONE-THIRD of their development can be what they call "Compact Lots", 2,000-4,000 square feet, where are we, San Francisco? Then you have condos, duets and possible apartments - yes, just because they drew up a Memo of Agreement to delete the apartments, they are not out of the picture as that document is not yet recorded. Don't let them tell you they have 1.85 density - the City of Brentwood's Casey McCann of Community Development already said the density was wrong. They can't tell us how they are going to develop their County land in advance - they are asking too much. If you want to become part of Brentwood, then act like it and include us in the land decisions. Kathy Griffin
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ssreid
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April 26, 2010
Peter and Veronica Charitou, apparently you don;t realize that Measure F strips away he right fo the Citizens of Brentwood and the City Planning Commission and the City in general to alter the developers plans.

Or did you not realize this before you wrote your letter above? I guess not. Nothing you say in your letter demonstrates that you have examined this issue below the surface of the developer's lies. Try a little harder next time.

BRENTWOOD IS NOT ANTIOCH!

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