Cupertino is My City By Oral Communications.msg1
Beth Ebben
From:Jennifer Griffin <grenna5000@yahoo.com>
Sent:Tuesday, May 12, 2020 8:29 AM
To:City Council; City of Cupertino Planning Commission
Cc:City Clerk; grenna5000@yahoo.com
Subject:Cupertino is My City By Right
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Dear City Council:
The writers or backers of the Big Housing Bills cannot take over cities
in California "by right". They cannot steal City Charters or take cities
away from citizens. This cannot even be done by Sacramento or even
for that matter, San Francisco.
There are a lot of groups or individuals that for some reason think that
taking over a City Charter is a right that they have. No one elected them.
They have no right to take over cities at all. Where they came up with a
sense of entitlement that California cities are theirs for the taking is
beyond comprehension, though there are sneaking suspicions.
But, California cities come with people. Others are trying to take the
cities with the land inside them, but there are people on that land.
Those people are not theirs too "by right". The people live in the cities.
and have their "by rights" to their own city.
City Charters are not for the taking. Unfortunately, there are individuals
or groups who write and back the Big Housing Bills in various ways
who think that they have a right to these City Charters. They have no
right. They cannot change the California Constitution. And that Constitution
comes with the people of the State, It is ours by right also just as are
our City Charters.
Sincerely,
Jennifer Griffin