The controversy over where to locate the boating center at Channel Islands Harbor is caused by a few greedy people who want to control the harbor to maximize the value of their own property.
I lived and worked in the harbor area for more than 30 years and observed that these contentious people seem to have similar backgrounds. They came up from the big city — Los Angeles — and bought beach property that was cheap for them, and now they intend to take control of the harbor away from the "local yokels" for their own benefit.
Their actual reason for not locating the boating center on the west side of the harbor is that it might cut a few dollars off the selling price of their property.
There is no real controversy about where to locate the boating center. Everyone who has ever sailed a boat knows that getting under way from a downwind berth — the east side of the harbor where the contentious people want to locate the boating center — is difficult, and returning to a downwind berth can be dangerous.
The harbor is for all of us, not a few selfish people.
— Marvin Miller, Oak View
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