Vote No on Measure H

By Andrew Carter

Measure H will prevent Prado Road from reaching Broad Street, causing traffic congestion and public safety response problems far into the future.

Despite what you may have heard, Prado Road will not "cut through" the Damon-Garcia soccer fields. It will go north of the fields and be safely separated from them by landscaping, fencing, and an embankment.

By dead-ending Prado Road, Measure H will delay the construction of new workforce housing in the Margarita and Orcutt areas. It will also delay the construction of new neighborhood parks, soccer fields, bicycle trails, and open space.

Measure H will cause spillover traffic on Tank Farm, Broad Street, South Street, South Higuera, LOVR, and elsewhere.

Measure H will replace 10 years of careful planning by six different City Councils and countless advisory bodies (including $1 million in traffic studies and environmental review) with ballot-box planning requiring no traffic studies or environmental review at all.

Vote No on Measure H. It's a dead end.