Letter: Time to act

The Off Highway Vehicle Division is trying to make an end run past the public so they can acquire the La Grande Tract adjoining the Oceano Dunes State Recreation Vehicle Area from the county behind closed doors. The Off Highway Vehicle Division is financed by your gasoline tax dollar to the tune of $60 million per year. 

Off-roading poses many problems for local residents, both human and animal, who must live with their effects long after visitors go home, including particulate matter. Health problems associated with increased particulate matter are significant and well documented: tachycardia, arrhythmias, plus pulmonary and systemic oxidative stress.

Dirt bikes, ATVs, and quads don’t have to comply with smog regulation and put out up to 30 times as many emissions as cars. The Off Highway Vehicle Division should be scaling down activity, not increasing it, to comply with the mandate to eliminate pollution in our parks.

If you are as concerned as I am, please submit your letters to the county no later than Oct. 30.

Better yet, attend the local hearing about the proposed environmental impact report tonight from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Ramona Garden Park Center in Grover Beach. Now is the time to act!

Samantha McTighe

Grover Beach

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Source: http://www.sanluisobispo.com/182/story/892972.html

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