To the editor: L.A. County Public Works chief Mark Pestrella makes an attempt to deflect the failures of his workplace onto the town of Malibu, saying county water initiatives have failed to maneuver ahead as a result of the town doesn’t need them, and charging that the town has at occasions used inadequate water entry as an excuse to limit new building. (“Officials were warned of failing water system before Palisades fire. Fixes never happened,” Jan. 24)
I used to be intimately concerned in Malibu metropolis authorities from 1994 to 2024 as both mayor, metropolis council member or planning commissioner. No sane particular person would accuse the town of being pro-development, however the metropolis by no means discouraged the county from creating water infrastructure and by no means restricted new improvement primarily based on water entry.
The company that did typically impose water-based restrictions was the L.A. County Hearth Division, an company that the town authorities is powerless to manage and even affect.
Jeffrey D. Jennings, Malibu
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To the editor: After all, issues that occur might have been prevented if this or that was performed. We name that type of rearview pondering “Monday morning quarterbacking.”
A delicate message in your article on water fixes that had been delayed or by no means occurred is that the fires had been somebody’s fault due to a scarcity of planning.
A lot of the dialogue is about budgeting. Oh, if we solely all had as a lot cash as we have to plan for any potential downside, then we’d be all set!
Dan Hennessy, Arcadia
