To the editor: When one makes an funding, one ought to undertake the due diligence to find out if one can afford to take the chance (“After years of disaster-level landslides, Rancho Palos Verdes will lastly get some federal help. Is it sufficient?,” Might 7). Each one in every of these landowners absolutely knew the dangers when shopping for a house on unstable land. It’s unfair to the remainder of us that we now have to pay for a really dangerous alternative, a alternative through which we garner no profit.
The homes ought to be condemned and the house owners ought to pay for particles removing. The house owners can nonetheless personal the land, however it ought to be zoned open area, permitting solely a trailer that may very well be eliminated inside a day. Additionally, the property shouldn’t be allowed to be insured.
Gregg Ferry, Carlsbad
