Younger generations shouldn’t accept city’s dysfunction as normal

From our early childhood, we believed our caretakers were always correct, without questioning them. I wonder if younger generations ever outgrew that. Our government servants continue creating worse traffic jams, especially on our freeways, requiring higher parking fees at meters (which are often impossible to read through the window), requiring fees to park at Balboa Park, our community’s jewel, and allowing high-rise residential structures for tiny, unfriendly family existence with inadequate parking even if residents pay for spaces. All this as water rates and fees for the historically free trash services skyrocket.

The younger generations may consider this all “normal,” but we elders know this is abnormal.  Will the solutions be silent acceptance, raising the sales tax or voting our leaders out? It’s time to question our caretakers.

— Clifford Weiler, Mission Hills