Here's what "is just not right:" the slick mailer's map! The Measure B opponents' fraudulent map claims 19 percent of the population is not represented on the View Resources Board. This is incorrect.
All necessary information for an accurate map is in the initiative's text, the full text of which is on the www.VCORD.org Web site. The map is elegant, with called-out exempted (industrial/manufacturing/hospital) areas and central view overlay subdistricts closing each other.
Measure B authorizes a 23-member View Resources Board to write a View Protection Ordinance. Using a form of simple district representation, defined View Overlay Districts have 18 neighborhood representatives. Each will outreach to neighborhood residents gathering input for the final View Protection Ordinance. (The View Resources Board also includes one representative each from the Visitors Bureau, Chamber of Commerce, City Council, Planning Commission and planning staff.)
Measure B defines Ventura's Westside, Central and Eastern View Overlay Districts.
The Westside District includes Ventura Avenue corridor with adjacent neighborhoods from Main Street north to city limits, which contains the area north of exempt Downtown-Core and west of Fir Street.
The Central District includes Victoria west to Fir bounded by north/south city limits. The Central subdistrict representatives are as follows: two from the Harbor/Ventura Keys area; two from Pierpont Beach area; two from Midtown-North, above Poli/Foothill, east of Fir, west of Victoria; three from Midtown-South (below Poli/Foothill, east of Fir, west of Victoria, minus following Midtown-East subdistrict); two from Midtown-East, northeast of Telegraph, west of Victoria, below Poli/Foothill bounded on west by exempt Community Memorial Hospital District and exempt county hospital property.
The Eastern District includes Victoria to eastern city limits bounded by north/south city limits.
These are the correct Measure B View Overlay Districts as defined in the initiative. These district's representatives are not in competition but are working together on a View Protection Ordinance that must then be adopted by the City Council or the voters.
-- Diane Underhill, Ventura
(The writer is a spokesperson for Measure B. -- Editor)