If some government fees are so easy to cut, why not others?
Re “Did San Diego City Council make the right call increasing developer fees">May 23): If the city can lower costs and speed approval for affordable housing without compromising standards, why can’t it do so for all development? Unnecessary regulations and bureaucracy? Why are the city’s solutions to all its problems always more money?
— Thomas W. Schoene, La Jolla
Agency’s costly studies only one cause for consternation
Re “No more tolls on SR-125? SANDAG is considering it — but making the road free would take years and cost millions” (May 24): If you had any doubt that San Diego and California are neck-deep in bureaucracy, worry no more. Just read this story on last Saturday’s front page.
Tighten your belts because SANDAG wants to spend up to $600,000 to study the issue of tolls, and possibly $2 million more for an environmental study. Huh? If the freeway is already there, how can tolls be an environmental issue?
There is not enough space to detail the rest of what is wrong here! The article is one absurdity after another.
I am going to create a company that just does “studies” for the government! Then, with my first pay, I am going to buy an oceanview house in La Jolla. Can we please get some reasonable people in government who can see through these follies?
— Maggie Conway, Sorrento Mesa
