I would like to clarify that most members of Bungalow Neighbors are also members of the Midtown Ventura Community Council and some are members of the East Side Community Council and Westside Community Council. The Bungalow Neighbors group simply uses its advantage, not being restricted as nonprofits are, to be politically active.

We are primarily an online community that is in favor of infill development that enhances and blends with Ventura’s potentially historic neighborhoods and districts. We are dedicated to preserving Ventura’s historic charm through the development process.

In seeking to bring some balance to the development fervor that has currently gripped the city of Ventura, we regularly dig into our own pockets to help neighbors with appeals, provide citizen notice when the city or community councils do not adequately notify the public and, in general, encourage a democratic, inclusive process whenever it does not appear to exist.

We encourage more inclusiveness by all groups and the honoring of differences in the community. The city coding project is featured on our website at www.bungalowneighbors.com, as is a poll on three-story developments. We say, let the community decide its own future. We just don’t want the agendas of a few, or of the developers, imposed on the community against its will.

— Camille Harris, Ventura

(The writer is a volunteer with the Bungalow Neighbors, tending to its Web site and business needs. — Editor.)