It is not often when I agree with Andy Caldwell but his commentary (“Will our SLO lifestyle suffer a SLO death,” Feb. 18) hits the nail on the head. It deals with the state requirement for every community to accommodate its share of growth: “this despite the fact that not every community has adequate water, sewage, and transportation infrastructure to accommodate such growth”. Agriculture and open space must be our top priorities—not “slurbanization.”
This article appears in Mar 4-11, 2010.