However, only three of the 10 members appointed last year by our leaseholders' organization, SCRL, to represent campus homeowners are left to help write it. The other seven SCRL appointees have all resigned, and five have publicly protested violations of their view of a fair and open process. The most recent resignation was that of the SCRL Executive Director Kathy Sharp, who concluded that continued participation on the Task Force was in conflict with her legal and ethical obligations to homeowners and to the SCRL Board. Given these events, we thought a more complete description of the issues that contributed to many of these resignations was in order.
Central questions remain unanswered.
This history must be considered in evaluating any final report the remaining members of the Task Force may produce. The SCRL Board has not been consulted or informed about what will be in this report, and any proposals the report may include will not reflect a meaningful process of cooperation or involvement of the campus residential community. The SCRL Board voted last summer to allow its 10 appointees to participate in Task Force activities, including drawing conclusions that might be included in a final report, but to reserve for itself the authority to recommend a particular course of action regarding infill development. We hope the board will now act on this authority by developing positions that reiterate its opposition to infill housing and that identify constructive approaches to solving the housing problem through comprehensive and long-range land use planning.