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Reader's letter: Proposed off-road law a positive step
Years of complaints by Hi-Desert residents who are sick and tired of ORV trespass of their private and public lands are finally resulting in some viable solutions. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department is pursuing state OHV enforcement grants that will get deputies out in the field on those dreaded holidays when the weekend warriors invade our desert with their destructive toys. With community support, law enforcement will get some of the resources they need to catch the these outlaws with the message that there are consequences for illegal behavior.
A multi-agency group including the Bureau of Land Management, S.B. County Sheriff's Department, California Highway Patrol and National Park Service is working with local groups to produce a brochure that will tell ORV users where they can and cannot ride. Locals are organizing throughout the Basin to defend their lands and quality of life.
The San Bernardino land use department has drafted an OHV ordinance that protects private property and helps to create a good neighbor policy concerning impacts from riders such as dust, noise and trespass. The ordinance is a positive step toward resolution of a problem that has become the number one complaint to law enforcement in the Hi-Desert. Anyone who respects the law should embrace the ordinance as a way to weed out the responsible from the irresponsible riders. The ordinance is so measured that only those who want to ride without regard for others are opposing it. Public safety and respect for the law, the environment, private property and the rights of homeowners, not ORV business interests, should be the basis for a county-wide plan addressing this growing problem.
Let's give our law enforcement officials the tools they need, and have asked for, to deal with the crisis.
Philip M. Klasky
Wonder Valley
A multi-agency group including the Bureau of Land Management, S.B. County Sheriff's Department, California Highway Patrol and National Park Service is working with local groups to produce a brochure that will tell ORV users where they can and cannot ride. Locals are organizing throughout the Basin to defend their lands and quality of life.
The San Bernardino land use department has drafted an OHV ordinance that protects private property and helps to create a good neighbor policy concerning impacts from riders such as dust, noise and trespass. The ordinance is a positive step toward resolution of a problem that has become the number one complaint to law enforcement in the Hi-Desert. Anyone who respects the law should embrace the ordinance as a way to weed out the responsible from the irresponsible riders. The ordinance is so measured that only those who want to ride without regard for others are opposing it. Public safety and respect for the law, the environment, private property and the rights of homeowners, not ORV business interests, should be the basis for a county-wide plan addressing this growing problem.
Let's give our law enforcement officials the tools they need, and have asked for, to deal with the crisis.
Philip M. Klasky
Wonder Valley
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mydoit2002 wrote on Jan 7, 2009 11:46 PM: