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The S.C.F. of South Central L.A. should be allowed to stand. Too many times an area of open space, or one that's been left to go to seed [ pardon the pun], will inevitably come under the radar of BIG MONEY developers more interested in paving a piece of what's left of Paradise and putting up a parking lot, from which they promise to generate the God-Almighty tax dollar. If L.A.'s city planners are that hard up for money, they should look to their own back pockets for the money that had been promised to buy the school books and fix the plumbing. Where did that disappear to? So, when a group of poor farmers who've been doing some creative planning in the way of providing food for the surrounding neighborhoods and their families for the past 13 years, where is the rationale for eviction simply because some rich, honcho wanna-bee all of a sudden sees dollar signs in the form of more industrialized building and storage complexes?

Is that what the residences of the area, no matter how blight-ridden that area may already be, really want is another grafitti-attracting eyesore of a structure, instead of the small patch of a green belt they've had the use of for all these years? Oh, but pardon me for being so naive. It's not generating enough revenue for the tax collectors, right?