Southern Bypass Will Destroy Main Street Businesses-ACT NOW

> Supervisor,

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> A few weeks ago, I copied you on a letter I sent to  Kristal Feilen  asking why a concerned citizen was not able to comment on one of the items on your Revitalization Matrix list, the "Ramona South Bypass."  I have attended a number of your  past meetings and spoke up on the destructive South Bypass plan and was told by you that the Revitalization  Meeting was not a venue for public comments by concerned citizens.  

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> Other than a few past and current Ramona Planning Group Chairpersons and Members, nobody wants the South Bypass.  Currently, your DPW is working on plans for one of the projects within the South Bypass Plan, namely the "Dye Rd. Extension-Phase I."   This project will cost over 10 million dollars.   The  existing roadway  we Ramonans are currently using is sufficient but the County keeps plodding on  only because a few ill-advised Ramona Community Planning Group members feel too embarrassed  to ask the County to stop and not spend any further money on the Ramona South Bypass.

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> There is not one person  in this County that will debate the merits of the Dye Rd. Extension with me and in the meantime, a new road, costing over 10 mill. may get built.  To add insult to injury, this new road will route drivers closer to the ugly Solar Farm nobody wanted in Ramona.

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> I think you are making a big mistake not letting concerned citizens speak on any of the items.  You can think about that when Carol Fowler (who is the champion of the South bypass) gives you her update on this item Nov. 20th.    Soon, I and a few concerned Ramona citizens will be visiting with all the merchants on Main Street and ask them to help  stop this Bypass mistake.  They will do it because they know their businesses will fail if their traffic bypasses their front doors.  

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> Additionally, can you even imagine the uproar in Ramona when and if Ramonans  see a South Bypass cut through the heart of our Valley of the Sun ?

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> Joe Minervini

> A Ramonan