Lisa Shicker’s opinion piece (“Sewer project would dispossess many Los Osos home owners,” Oct. 22) adds to her teetering stack of allegations about how everyone else (but she) is to blame for the Los Osos sewer mess. She says sewer charges will force 40 percent of the residents and businesses to leave town. All of the rental housing (30 percent of the stock) will stand vacant. No evidence is presented to support these startling claims. It was the same with her ugly attempt to vilify the Public Works director. Shicker’s narrative is a sewerized variation of that story where someone tries to pay off a bank overdraft by writing additional checks.
This article appears in Oct 29 – Nov 4, 2009.