I went protest today with my incredible friends and fellow Calabasas residents who want to keep Calabasas the most special place to live…it is not a place where toxic and harmful ash should be dumped right next to schools and parks, which could affect our children’s health and fertility and so much more. Calabasas has always cared about the environment and the health and happiness of its citizens, with its no smoking rule, plastic bag ban, plastic straw ban and bright sky ordinance (no light pollution so we can see the stars). It is illegal to throw away batteries, for construction sites to dump any harmful asbestos or anything in our Calabasas landfill. So it seems so mind-blowing that our government officials would actively decide to put hazardous, dangerous and severely unhealthy materials in the heart of a healthy, thriving community that strives to be thoughtful and proactive. In Calabasas, we are building the largest animal crossing in the state and possibly in the country. This trash site is only about a mile away from a corridor that we are building to ensure the health, well-being and success of animal migration and insurance of not putting our local mountain lions in the threat of extinction and interbreeding. Once again, does this seem to make any sense to you? To the state and city officials : you have a chance to make a positive intelligent decision about the long term health of this city and of this state. I challenge you to really think about what you were doing and if you would want and toxic waste next to your home, next to your children’s school, next to your work, next to your park and your environment that you work so hard to be a part of. I would like to thank Alicia Weintraub, Protect Calabasas and the Calabasas city officials for their tireless work for doing what’s right. This is not a fact of being selfish or not wanting something that you just don’t want. This is a fact of sustaining the healthy, unique biome that Calabasas is, and it has always been. We do not want to slow down the Palisades cleanup but to simply have the debris brought to the desert where there are no people in harms way. Thank you for your time!
I went protest today with my incredible friends and fellow Calabasas residents who want to keep Calabasas the most special place to live…it is not a place where toxic and harmful ash should be dumped right next to schools and parks, which could affect our children’s health and fertility and so much more. Calabasas has always cared about the environment and the health and happiness of its citizens, with its no smoking rule, plastic bag ban, plastic straw ban and bright sky ordinance (no light pollution so we can see the stars). It is illegal to throw away batteries, for construction sites to dump any harmful asbestos or anything in our Calabasas landfill. So it seems so mind-blowing that our government officials would actively decide to put hazardous, dangerous and severely unhealthy materials in the heart of a healthy, thriving community that strives to be thoughtful and proactive. In Calabasas, we are building the largest animal crossing in the state and possibly in the country. This trash site is only about a mile away from a corridor that we are building to ensure the health, well-being and success of animal migration and insurance of not putting our local mountain lions in the threat of extinction and interbreeding. Once again, does this seem to make any sense to you? To the state and city officials : you have a chance to make a positive intelligent decision about the long term health of this city and of this state. I challenge you to really think about what you were doing and if you would want and toxic waste next to your home, next to your children’s school, next to your work, next to your park and your environment that you work so hard to be a part of. I would like to thank Alicia Weintraub, Protect Calabasas and the Calabasas city officials for their tireless work for doing what’s right. This is not a fact of being selfish or not wanting something that you just don’t want. This is a fact of sustaining the healthy, unique biome that Calabasas is, and it has always been. We do not want to slow down the Palisades cleanup but to simply have the debris brought to the desert where there are no people in harms way. Thank you for your time!
