Why Change Something That Has Worked for So Long

I just can’t understand the logic of some citizens these days, they want changes, do not appreciate what we have, and completely disregard the negative results that changes can bring to our great town.

Why change Castro Valley? A pretty good town where everyone wants to live, close to everything, still affordable and pretty safe.

Why build and build when we do not have enough electrical grid and water for us present residents?

Why build more retail spaces, when the stores that we now have, struggles to stay in business, because of the greedy landlord’s high rents? Let’s help them bring their prices down and their inventories up, why, drive to Wall Mart or call Amazon, ridiculous, maddening.

Let’s focus on making things better with what we have instead of making a huge catastrophe, by bringing in more housing, more people, more cars, taking away parking and open spaces. How many new schools would we need to build? What about the cost to refurbish the schools that we now have?

Let’s take a good look at the problems that cities around us have.

Why bring those problems here?

Last but least, a new city, will bring higher taxes, has anyone given it any thoughts how retirees in today world will be able to afford to continue to live here? Us retirees unable to afford the new higher property taxes, we will be forced to sell our homes and move away. Where? Out of state!!!  like so many are doing in our surrounding cities or stay and pay high rents to the new city, new out of town greedy properties owners.

Let’s wake up and make us residents that love this town, top priority and kick out the out of towners big pockets investors, that couldn’t care less about Castro Valley.

Where are you Mr. Miley and you Mr. Swalwell? We gave you a job, work with us and for us, not the deep pockets investors.

Place an article in the Castro Valley Forum front page, show us that you care and give us your positive, just reasons on why Castro Valley is to remain an Unincorporated Town.

Conrad Wilgus, I am with you, if someone doesn’t like it here move out.

–Josie Pastorino, Castro Valley