To the editor: Jenny Jarvie’s article raised vital points a few declining inhabitants in Los Angeles County (“Folks leaving Los Angeles in rising numbers, and it may ‘hang-out us for many years,’” April 9). However, no consideration was given to the advantages of a secure and even short-term inhabitants decline.
Los Angeles County, the most populated county in America, is greater than sufficiently crowded sufficient now to influence housing costs, air high quality, demand for native providers and site visitors, all of that are seemingly among the many most unfavorable ranges within the nation.
A pause in native progress might enable for the stabilization of a top quality of life that appears to be eroding, plus enable for housing building to meet up with housing wants. Moreover, numerous public transportation tasks want respiratory room to be accomplished. They provide the prospect of stabilizing and even lowering avenue and freeway site visitors.
Since it’s obvious that the Los Angeles metropolitan space is already crowded, let’s not want for extra of the identical. As a retired financial improvement marketing consultant, I imagine that taking a break from inhabitants progress would provide advantages which were ignored. And don’t fear: With the nice Southern California climate, any lower in migration right here will seemingly be short-term.
Gary Wartik, Palm Desert
