Excerpted from article by Julia Scott, STAFF WRITER for insidebayarea.com
From: http://www.insidebayarea.com/sanmateocountytimes/ci_6019104
“The last time Larry Fama drove his 1971 Volkswagen Bug out of his driveway was in February 2005, before a huge landslide split the driveway in two and moved the asphalt, and the car sitting on it, 100 yards to the bottom of a hill.
Compared to some of his neighbors along Scenic Drive, Fama got off easy. At least his home is still there, as opposed to the eight homes within a quarter mile of this site that were condemned after damage from an even bigger landslide in 1998...
...After more than two years of meeting with county officials in an effort to get Scenic Drive repaired, a group of La Honda residents came to a Board of Supervisors meeting May 15, bearing a petition with 180 signatures from residents and demanding action.
"’It's been two years, and the county hasn't repaired the road. The way this has been handled has been an absolute disgrace, and if this had been happening in any city with a city attorney, this would never have been tolerated,’" said Jill Briggs, who presented the petition to the Board of Supervisors on behalf of the Cuesta La Honda Guild homeowners' association.
"’They know we're out here, and they're ignoring us.’"
I grew up in La Honda, an it seems the county still seems to ignore the town. It is a shame
Posted by: Marques Tainter | August 03, 2009 at 10:01 AM