Dear Royal Vista Open Space Community Members,

Thank you to those who came to our Community Meeting on January 22, 2022, and to our Rally/Mini Meeting yesterday on February 26th. 

Letter Writing Campaign to our New L.A. County Supervisor Hilda Solis

Thank you for all the letters you have written in the past to Supervisor Hahn and the Department of Regional Planning. We are now asking you to write a letter to Supervisor Solis. She and her team need to learn about our Rowland Heights unincorporated community. Please:

• Invite Supervisor Solis to come to Rowland Heights for a community meeting so that you can meet her in person, learn more about her, and share your concerns about the proposed development. Our nonprofit will help organize the meeting, but YOUR VOICE will help encourage her to visit her constituents.
• Each of us has an important story to tell. Please take a moment to include your story and how the proposed 321-unit housing project will impact you, your family, and/or your community. 
  Our goal is to let Supervisor Solis know the environmental impact this housing development will have on people, wildlife, and nature. We also want her to know that preserving Open Space in communities is important for the mental, physical, and social well-being of children and families for generations to come. While we offer talking-point suggestions below, YOUR STORY is important.

Email your story to Hilda Solis & the Rowland Heights Team. The following can all be included in one email:

firstdistrict@bos.lacounty.gov 

amoreno@bos.lacounty.gov

RSerrano@bos.lacounty.gov

GDuran-Medina@bos.lacounty.gov

The goal is for Supervisor Solis to receive all our emails throughout the month of March.

While Supervisor Solis is new to our area, she is not new to politics. She has been an L.A. County Supervisor since 2014. As the Supervisor for District 1, she championed many causes that improved the lives of her constituents. She served as the United States Secretary of Labor from 2009 to 2013 during the Obama Administration. Her government service dates back to 1992. She grew up locally, in La Puente, California. 

You can learn more about her here https://hildalsolis.org/about-hilda/ 

Thank you for showing up to support our events, donating golf balls, donating to the legal fund, talking to friends and neighbors about the threat to our community, and all the ways you work to save Royal Vista Open Space.

In partnership,

Royal Vista Open Space, Nonprofit Organization

Reasons To Save Our Open Space
• Royal Vista is the last sizable green-space in the community, and development will destroy the wildlife habitat and corridor to the Puente Hills Significant Ecological Area (SEA). 

• Development will increase traffic, noise, crime, pollution and overuse area resources including water and power.

• According to the LA County Fire Department, communities need open spaces to serve as a fire break, and evacuation point. The lakes on Royal Vista are used as a source of water for air tankers to fight our increasingly frequent wildfires due to drought.

• Years of construction noise and moving 2,120,000 cubic yards of earth is significant, causing fugitive dust, increasing airborne fungal spores & harming the health of the community, especially individuals with an impaired immune system, and respiratory or heart conditions.

• Development will contribute to the climate crisis, with multi-level dense housing and road paving, which will limit ground permeability for rain water, and further deplete the water table.

• According to the National Park Service, exposure to nature has endless health benefits for people and the planet. Nature makes us smarter, stronger, healthier, happier, and more productive. Don’t take the nature in our community away! 

If you would like to donate directly to Royal Vista Open Space Nonprofit, please visit our website SaveRoyalVista.com

* We do not receive any of the funds donated to boost the petition via Change.org - please use our GoFundMe, PayPal, or Zelle