I can remember when Fountaingrove ended at the top of the hill, and the
animals for which the streets are named could sometimes be seen. It's just
a
fact of life in a time and place where our population grows with no end
in
sight.
There's no long-term reason why we should single out an arbitrary 50 acres
in Windsor, a town already resembling an ant farm, and deny its inevitable
fate of development. Out of all the possible owners of the land, I'd feel
best
knowing it belonged to descendents of Sonoma County's first settlers, the
Pomos.
It's guaranteed that the plot will succumb to the everlasting forces of
suburban sprawl over time, we might as well give it back to whom it
originally belonged and let them have all the fun, for once.
GEOFF DEMITZ
Santa Rosa