Thousand Oaks' Measure B is largely a battle between the Do-it Center and its much larger rival, Home Depot, with the two companies financing most of the "yes" and "no" campaigns, respectively. While I like the Do-it Center store, have often shopped there and sympathize with its plight, it seems the ballot measure is too much of a scorched-earth proposal to support, with more potential negatives than positives for the city.

Here is how I used a computer to lay out the gears, which would be extremely challenging to draw well if done entirely by hand. I used a light box to trace the gears in ink on my drawing paper before scanning back into the computer.