This Golfer Is Hitting Out of Bounds

To golfer Paul Mathews of Northridge, who would like to see a 150-acre golf course in the Chatsworth Reservoir: No way!

City Councilman Hal Bernson wants to protect the reservoir because he is following the wishes of those of us who live in the area. We do not view natural open spaces as “wasteland,” and the southern rim is certainly not a “dust bowl.”

How sad that a landscape must be artificially green to appeal to Mr. Mathews, and what tremendous gall he has to seek to destroy our resource so that his hobby will be more convenient and less expensive.

We don’t need the additional traffic on an already overloaded two-lane country road, and we do not wish the view of the night skies to be obliterated by light pollution.

This is just the latest in a series of schemes by outsiders to plunder this land for their own gain. I have nothing against golf per se , but I would suggest that Mr. Mathews take his golf course idea to a community that wants, needs and would appreciate some artificial green--perhaps an economically disadvantaged area.

Thank-you Councilman Bernson for your continuing courage to stand up to these people and do the right thing for future generations.

PATRICIA P. EVERETT

Chatsworth

* How strange that Paul Mathews (board member of the Sepulveda Men’s Golf Club) wants to put a golf course on Chatsworth Reservoir (Valley Commentary, Jan. 8).

Hey, why not soccer fields, or Little League fields, or maybe a casino? I hope Mathews’ idea goes the way of fellow golfer Bob Hope’s vision for a golf course on Jordan Ranch. Let’s please leave what little is left of our fractured, bulldozed suburbia to something in its natural state.

VINCE CURTIS

Sherman Oaks