‘Need’ for Arts Park?

Ichallenge Luke Bandle, who recently resigned as general manager of the San Fernando Valley Cultural Foundation, to give one solid fact to support her statement that the San Fernando Valley needs the arts centers (April 29).

The so-called Arts Park L.A. in the Sepulveda basin will destroy breeding and nesting grounds for wild birds, ducks and geese, eliminate acres of cornfields and, in doing so, do away with one more remaining bucolic area of natural beauty.

Where and who are all these people who Bandle claims “need” this park? I wonder if Bandle has the integrity to admit that the developers and politicians are the only ones who “need” it.

RICHARD McCURDY

Studio City