Groups Support Reseda Extension

Your article (July 21) on the extension and paving of Reseda Boulevard to Mulholland Drive failed to include the testimony before the Fire Commission of the Encino Hillside Traffic Safety Organization and the Encino Property Owners Assn.

These groups jointly and vigorously support the extension of Reseda Boulevard into the Santa Monica Mountains. We want road access to Mulholland Drive and the paving of Mulholland Drive so that the residents of Tarzana and the West Valley will have their own access to the San Diego Freeway and stop using our already overly burdened hillside streets as a bypass to the freeway.

The narrow, winding, hazardous streets in the fire-prone hillside area of Encino have become a threat to our public safety and need relief now .

In no way can our streets absorb increased traffic from the 350 homes planned along both sides of Reseda Boulevard around the country clubs of Braemar and El Caballero. We protest our street conditions where cars damage our gardens, smash our fences, total our cars and crash through the walls of our homes.

Opponents of the extension and paving of Reseda Boulevard talk about preserving hiking trails, while we cannot walk along our streets without getting hit by cars. We cannot allow our children to play on the sidewalks in front of their own houses. How can we allow them to walk to school?

MADELINE DeANTONIO

Encino

DeAntonio represents the Encino Hillside Traffic Safety Organization and the Encino Property Owners Assn.