Example of Angry Property Owner Critiquing SMMC-June 2021
Channel: Sean Anderson
Date: 29/06/2021

This critique of the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy (SMMC) in general and Director Edmiston in particular by Thousand Oaks Property Owner and Real Estate Developer Shawn Moradian in June of 2021 is an example of both the benefit of open hearing regulations and laws that provide all citizens and opportunity to voice their inputs and concerns to public agencies and an example of how agencies should behave when criticism is leveled at them over the course of their doing their work.

Note here that most of the details of the encounter were not explored (you can see some of the story in the links below).  The issue at hand is the supposedly "out of the blue" comment letter from the SMMC and the process by which comment letters are generated or approved.

For clarity, the area in question is likely a wetland (although apparently not a jurisdictional wetland by the most recent Army Corps delineation) on the Borchard South parcel in Thousand Oaks near Borchard Road the the 101 Freeway. At a minimum it harbors valuable wetland services whose importance has been increased as much of the surrounding floodplain has been developed over the past half century.

Additional Information on this development proposal can be found here:
https://archive.vcstar.com/news/newbury-park-parcel-seen-as-potential-wetlands-ep-367588006-348036611.html/
https://www.toacorn.com/articles/borchard-parcel-takes-center-stage/
https://www.toaks.org/home/showpublisheddocument?id=34011